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Digital assistance
To support Havering Community Hub, we created Cognizant® Assist, a digital platform that helps UK community volunteers collaborate in times of need.
WATCH NOWMaking a difference
Cognizant volunteers apply their passion and skills to help change the world in causes of their choice.
Watch NowEducation
Cognizant's diverse workforce of knowledge professionals is definitively impacting the holistic development of students and the digital empowerment of teachers.
WATCH NOWEnvironment
Cognizant volunteers adopt and promote sustainable living practices at home and in their communities to positively impact the environment and foster an appreciation for biodiversity.
WATCH NOWCommunity welfare
To help build a more inclusive society with better quality of life, Outreach supports people with disabilities and provides vocational training to women and youth.
WATCH NOWWe focus our industry‑leading expertise on, and provide financial support to, organizations that make a positive change in the world. We support skill‑building and workforce programs, and improve the operations of non‑governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world.
Cognizant Outreach
The Cognizant Outreach program mobilizes our associates’ expertise and enthusiasm through volunteer work.
To make an impact in the areas that are strategically aligned to our business, we focus on:
Project 100 schools initiatives
After devastating floods wreaked
havoc in several cities in India,
Outreach volunteers coordinated
with restoration agencies and helped
restore school infrastructure and provide
students with safe places to study.
Challenge to teach initiative
Volunteers who assessed
student skills and followed up
with personalized coaching are
now seeing tangible increase
in student learning levels.
Einstein Hunt
Encouraging students to
understand the challenges they face
every day—and to devise creative,
scientific solutions on their own to
solve them.
Outreach scholarship program
Thanks to the generosity of Cognizant
associates who coach and volunteer,
each year over 1,200 deserving students
in India can pursue a college education.
Training the trainers
With communities in lockdown,
Cognizant’s digital enrichment
program enables teachers to
effectively use online tools to teach
children during the pandemic.
Save the planet
Cognizant volunteers adopt and
promote sustainable living practices
at home and in their communities to
positively impact the environment and
foster an appreciation for biodiversity.
Running dry
With two-thirds of the global
population facing water scarcity
in the coming years, Outreach
volunteers support localized
conservation and restoration efforts.
Seeing is believing
From creating herbal gardens to
planting forests, our volunteers
think globally and act locally by
placing a high priority on local
restoration efforts.
Outreach Philippines
From gardens to reading hubs,
our volunteers in the Philippines
are building new structures in
schools—all with recycled plastic
bottles packed with sand.
Inclusive societies
To help build a more inclusive
society with better quality of life,
Outreach supports people with
disabilities and provides vocational
training to women and youth.
Coping with COVID
Using virtual tools to spread
help and hope in a time of fear,
Outreach volunteers are well
equipped to provide assistance
wherever it's needed.
Leveling the field
From wheelchair basketball
to paralympic swimming,
Cognizant's involvement with
parasports enables a level playing
field for those with disabilities.
Quality of life
How Cognizant volunteers are
helping hundreds of seniors
worldwide to use smart
devices more effectively—and
to find their way in a digital world.
Skills for life
Motivated to act after visiting a
village in need, Outreach volunteers
returned every week to address the
main issue: help the community find
ways to make a living.
Redirecting talents
Our highly skilled, diverse global
workforce has much to offer when
volunteering to help individuals
and nonprofits pivot to digital
and create community value.
Accelerating digital adoption
Well versed in office productivity,
Cognizant volunteers are focusing
their attention on improving the
digital skills of nonprofit workers
hard at work in their communities.
Career readiness workshops
Volunteers share recruitment tips
and tricks to help young scholars
develop the skills they need to
enter the workforce and plan
successful careers.
For more information, including our greenhouse gas emissions, see our 2020 ESG Report.