Author: Microsoft Corporate Blogs

In southwest Detroit, nearly half of the adults lack a high school diploma and more than half of the kids live in poverty. Neighborhood programs help kids stay in school, be productive and learn job skills, but what’s the point if kids can’t get to those programs? Often there’s no one to drive them, no…

Steffen Hake knows the long, gritty hours involved in running a successful dairy farm, a life that can mean climbing out of bed before dawn and working past sundown — but he has an edge that generations of farmers before him never had. “When I get up in the morning and put on my boots,…

On the weekends, Tyesha and Iesha Heard, twin 12-year-old girls, open their laptops as soon as they finish breakfast. The girls’ grandmother, Tammy Heard, isn’t worried about too much screen time. For those raising children in impoverished parts of Miami-Dade County, these devices are changing the way children are learning. They’re also seen as a…