Microsoft Backing ‘Digital Skills’ Initiative With $20M in Grants to Nonprofits
Microsoft is pledging to bring “more digital skills” needed for the “COVID-19 economy” to 25 million people globally by year-end, said the company Tuesday. “Expanded access to digital skills is an important step in accelerating economic recovery, especially for the…
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people hardest hit by job losses.” The initiative will include “immediate steps to help those looking to reskill and pursue an in-demand job,” it said. It’s backing the effort with $20 million in cash grants to nonprofits to help the people “who need it most,” it said. A quarter of the funds will go to U.S. nonprofits that serve communities of color, it said.