New Microsoft Philanthropies organization helped put 71,000 nonprofits in the cloud and supercharge the company’s giving.

REDMOND, Washington, March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A year after the formation of Microsoft Philanthropies, Microsoft Corp. and its employees have donated more than $650 million in cash, cloud services and software to nonprofits around the world. In a letter published today, Mary Snapp , corporate vice president at Microsoft Philanthropies, detailed the organization’s 2016 …