With greater than 2000+ volunteer hours contributed, 2070 neighborhood meals served, and 15 native charities supported in 2019, Vidyard continues to behave upon its neighborhood engagement initiatives constructing a powerful “give again” technique that conjures up others.
KITCHENER, Ontario – December 10, 2019 – Vidyard, the main video platform for companies, celebrates one other 12 months of constructing its Group Engagement Program because the firm reordered its stakeholder checklist in December of 2018, prioritizing ‘Group’ above ‘Traders’ in a daring transfer for a expertise firm of its dimension.
All through 2019, Vidyard employees and management groups have been concerned in numerous actions to help area people give again packages:
- Served greater than 2070 meals on the Home of Friendship, a Kitchener-based group that gives help providers for these coping with poverty, starvation, homelessness, and habit.
- Logged greater than 2000 volunteer hours on the Home of Friendship, in addition to by means of outreach programming with LAUNCH Waterloo, THEMUSEUM, Technovation, Catalyst on the College of Waterloo, and the Waterloo Area District Faculty Board.
- Hosted over 100 community-focused occasions of their workplace together with programming to help LGBTQ+ in Expertise with Makingspace, Woman Geek Dinners, Home of Friendship, Girls Studying Code and plenty of others.
- Generated $15,000 in neighborhood donations, together with items to help organizations concerned in constructing a flourishing native arts tradition, creating entrepreneurship and management programming, aiding healthcare and wellness, and neighborhood improvement.
- Hosted 3 Plugin occasions for Spectrum on the THEMUSEUM (for the museum), Paddle Royale for Diet for Studying, and Nightmare on King Road for Supportive Housing of Waterloo. These neighborhood occasions deliver collectively younger professionals in enjoyable and unconventional methods to attach, construct and keep our neighborhood. Since Plugin started, Vidyard has supported 14 native charities.
“Vidyard’s Group Engagement Program is designed to assist our employees see the completely different volunteering alternatives obtainable to them in their very own backyards, and that small contributions of time could make an enormous distinction,” says Laura Flatt, Group Engagement Program Supervisor at Vidyard. “For instance, we’ve a gaggle of dedicated volunteers that go weekly to serve on the males’s shelter, and others who give their time to mentor college students within the area. Some even go to donate blood collectively.”
Vidyard Provides Again: 2 weeks and 800+ hours of volunteer efforts
This previous February, Vidyard did one thing unconventional. Contributing greater than 800 hours of time in simply two weeks, Vidyard celebrated Group as a real stakeholder throughout its first annual Vidyard Provides Again program. This system was constructed for employees focused on opting-in throughout work hours to help one in every of six native charities. Over 14 days, greater than 200 workers from Kitchener, Vancouver and Boston have been divided into 35 teams which then rotated throughout six completely different organizations throughout the two-week interval.
Actions have been on the request of organizations, and included portray a typical room for the Home of Friendship, making ready and serving meals for St. John’s Kitchen with The Working Centre, packing kits for Food4Kids and Meals Financial institution of Waterloo Area, operating intramural soccer with KW Habilitation, serving to put together dinner for the KW Habilitation fundraising occasion, serving breakfast with Diet For Studying, and localized packages for groups in Vancouver and Boston.
The 2 weeks of Give Again have been so profitable for the members of Vidyard’s groups, that workers at the moment are supplied with two days of depart annually to volunteer and contribute to one thing that issues most to them.
“Group Giving” is Now a Defining A part of Vidyard Tradition
“By volunteering, I’ve had the chance to work together with new folks, and that actually brings a way of unity and human connection into the neighborhood the place I stay and work,” says Kelsey Finn on volunteering with the Home of Friendship.
“I initially went to serve breakfast with Diet for Studying, however ended up serving math assist and life recommendation. It was an amazing expertise and I’d love to return again subsequent 12 months,” says Miko Taruc on volunteering with the Home of Friendship.
#BanditTour
Earlier this 12 months, a small group of Vidyard employees, together with Michael Litt, Vidyard’s co-founder and CEO, joined forces with one Vidyard’s key companions, Traction on Demand, to participate of their Bandit Tour for Good 2019. Having run consecutively for eight years, this annual tour helps charities by means of volunteerism and pro-bono service consultations that help video best-practices and methods designed assist improve impression and attain.
The 1500km 2019 tour started in Vancouver and ran by means of to Dreamforce in San Francisco, making 16 stops alongside the way in which. By offering “Bandit Acts of Kindness” in communities alongside the west coast, a wide range of organizations noticed the group’s help, together with Large Brothers of Larger Vancouver, Down Syndrome Useful resource Basis, Georgia Strait Alliance, BC Parks Basis, Teen Feed, Bloodworks NW, With Love, Elementary Literacy Inc., Mates of the Dunes, and others.
“The Bandit Tour represents a possibility for us to hyperlink arms with an amazing associate. In doing so, we mix our mental and bodily assets to each assist not-for-profit organizations get extra mileage out of their expertise investments and help them of their every day volunteer and labour wants,” says Michael Litt, CEO and co-founder of Vidyard. “This tour exhibits our respective groups that it’s doable to develop with empathy and to leverage our immense privilege for social impression”.
All through 2020, Vidyard will proceed to prioritize weekly volunteering, mentorship programming by means of native STEAM/STEM initiatives, blood drives, large-scale company-wide occasions, and Plugin neighborhood help actions.
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