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“Create Change” is Adobe’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) call-to-action. This strategy and communications platform guides how Adobe employees operate their business, design new products, and address pressing social and environmental issues. Create Change helps connect teams and initiatives across the … Continue reading →

Adobe Youth Voices is a global philanthropic program of the Adobe Foundation. The program engages 13-18 year-olds in an educational experience to capture their passion and concerns about issues that matter to them most by creating media. The program empowers … Continue reading →

I recently attended my first Adobe Youth Voices Live! event at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). I was blown away by the films and other media produced by the Boston AYV youth. Please take time to check them out Continue reading →

You must take five minutes this weekend to watch this inspiring short film created by 16 year-old David Were about his realities living in the largest slum in Kenya. I have been working on the Adobe Youth Voices program since its inception four years ago, and I am continuously inspired.

This and ten other youth produced films are being celebrated this week at Lincoln Center in New York City as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Over a hundred additional films are uploaded at the Adobe Youth Voices Gallery. Continue reading →

Each year, Adobe celebrates the cutting-edge use of its technology for creating engaging virtual experiences. This year Social Responsibility was added as a new category, and the diverse finalists in this category are worth checking out.  The general public has been invited to vote on the winner. Finalists include a dynamic online forum for Colorado teenagers to discuss peer pressure and making smarter choices in their lives; an interactive game to promote healthy relationships among youth; an online exploration of threatened salmon populations in the North Pacific; and an easy-to-use desktop application that helps Fiat owners drive more efficiently. Continue reading →

The Adobe Foundation launched the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards, a new opportunity for youth worldwide to submit their most compelling digital work to an international, online media competition. As part of Adobe’s signature philanthropy program, Adobe Youth Voices, these … Continue reading →

Adobe Systems has published its first corporate responsibility data summary, which provides a snapshot of Adobe’s CSR-related reporting metrics for fiscal years 2008 – 2010. It is designed for stakeholders seeking to quickly view numbers and practices in the areas of employee … Continue reading →

Adobe has been ranked #14 among the greenest companies in the U.S. by Newsweek magazine. Adobe ranks #4 within the Information Technology and Services industry. Read more and view the full rankings.

The Adobe Foundation in partnership with the Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation will open a new Peapod Adobe Youth Voices academy for San Jose youth. Building on the success of existing academies, the collaboration focuses on empowering underserved youth by … Continue reading →

Friends, family, and community members joined young artists in Boston in the year-end celebration of Adobe Youth Voices (AYV). Hosted at The Institute of Contemporary Art, the event featured media produced by local Boston youth including thought-provoking films and colorful, … Continue reading →

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) showcases three films produced by AYV student filmmakers. The films address complex issues such as love and its obstacles, the creative process starting from an idea to an end product or invention, and the … Continue reading →

The UN Association Film Festival officially selected ten documentary films produced by Adobe Youth Voices youth to be screened at its 14th film festival held from October 21-30, 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Only 60 films were chosen … Continue reading →

The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation and the Adobe Foundation launch a new Peapod Adobe Youth Voices music and multimedia academy in New York City. Building on the success of existing academies, the collaboration focuses on empowering underserved youth by … Continue reading →

Adobe senior manager, Jennifer Reynolds, spoke about Adobe’s CSR brand and communications strategies on a panel entitled , “Balancing Brand and Corporate Citizenship” at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The panel included corporate citizenship professionals … Continue reading →

Human Rights Watch, in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices, presented the 2011 San Francisco Bay Area premiere of “Youth Producing Change” on March 10 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, as part of Human Rights Watch’s … Continue reading →

In March/April 2011 issue of Leading and Learning with Technology, a publication of the International Society for Technology in Education, Michelle Mann, Adobe’s Director of CSR, writes about Adobe’s focus on education and its active engagement of youth in their … Continue reading →

Adobe Executive Director of CSR, Michelle Mann, presented the breadth of Adobe’s CSR strategy at the GreenBiz Group’s State of Green Business Forum in San Francisco. View Michelle’s presentation.

Adobe creates a special advertising section in FORTUNE Magazine to communicate the company’s CSR efforts and promote its sponsorship of the BSR Conference 2010. See the advertisement.

Adobe has published its first corporate social responsibility summary report highlighting the company’s CSR programs promoting sustainability, charitable giving, and responsible corporate citizenship. View the report.

Adobe sponsors I3 innovation plenary sessions at the 2010 BSR Conference with presentations by the Museum of Modern Art’s Paola Antonelli, Women for Women International’s Zainab Salbi, and The 99 comic creator Naif A. Al-Mutawa. The introduction to each plenary … Continue reading →

Adobe Youth Voices, the Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation joined forces to connect underserved youth with the chance to learn and use multi-media production tools, including those for video, music, dance, and art, through Peapod … Continue reading →

Adobe Youth Voices became the founding sponsor of the first-ever youth film track, Youth Producing Change, at the 2008 Annual Human Rights Watch Global Film Festival. Selected from over 250 submissions from across the globe, the track features nine short films … Continue reading →

Adobe Systems launched its new global signature program, Adobe Youth Voices, designed to empower underserved youth to comment on social issues that are important to them through multimedia projects. Working in collaboration with five leading youth media organizations, Adobe will … Continue reading →