April is a global volunteer month. For a month, we have been aware of SOE about how Cisco employees give their time, skills and expertise in their communities.
In 1991, the US was established in April as a national volunteer month. Today, this range has spread and is recognized as a global volunteer month. Sincere founding Cisco 40 years ago, the return on our communities was part of our tradition.
Returning back as a habit is part of what it means today in Cisco. It is an important aspect of our culture and supported by various programs. Simple put, our employees like to help their communities and Cisco supports their efforts.
Volunteer employees, Cisco donates
Our main program for corresponding gifts in the field corresponds to eligible employee and stock gifts for a dollar for a dollar up to $ 10,000 each year, but it is not only a money gifts that are eligible for matches. Through the program, employees can also gain their volunteer time with a di -Cisco 10 gift per hour to the organization where they devoted their time.
In FY24, employees gave 720,000 hours in volunteer time and used the program of corresponding gifts to match their eligible hours from Cisco.
In Kraków, for example, employees have recently said goodbye to Hearty Foundation, a local organization that supports children’s education and social care. Cisco employees organized a number of workshops for students focused on cyber security, programming and other basic digital skills. They also developed a day -long event of the future future STEM Heroes, which is to ignite interest in science and technology. Overall, employees voluntarily registered 36 hours of time to help the students to give the foundation to the Cisco $ 3,600.
In London, our Meraki gives EMEA a virtual volunteer event with psychiatry Research Trust. Employees from Globe lining are awaiting and learning about group research as an organization as well as the importance of resistance in our communities and the value of mental health stigma.
“The Cisco $ 10 match has added a special dimension to our partnership with Trust,” said Meraki Global Cooperation Racha Tfaili. “By learning not only about the important work that this group performs, they also gained time to keep this critical research.”
Always on occasions
Our Impact Impact portal for community is a digital tool that allows employees to organize volunteer actions for others to join and apply for volunteering. Volunteering can be personally, virtual or team. Our employees voluntarily participate in everything from local food cuisine to international organizations to digital camps that help children learn about technology.
“In FY24, our customer engineering team was 100% involved in the election,” says Custory Monica Huerta Castillo. “The portal of the impact of Cisco Community impact has helped us identify the opportunities of volunteers. We did everything from virtual volunteering to on -site activities to volunteering on field projects. We do it because it is part of who we are.
In 2025, we facilitate employment to find and connected to voluntary actions through our new quarterly global week of the national company. Organically, they started one of our business units and we got to know the strength of a focused weekend that connected our employed together. Therefore, we are expanding the program so that it is available to all employed. We cooperate with community groups in areas such as education, sustainability, food safety and poverty.
Paid leave for volunteering
Another way we support employees volunteering is through our advantage Time2Give, which provides each employee within 10 days of paid leave a year Volteer. Some employed took a two-wek block to travel on international volunteer missions. Others are spreading their time with regular volunteering in schools. Others have used their time to provide specialized skills to non -profit organizations such as coding and legal work for Bono.
Stella Au, a powerful assistant in New York, traveled to Vietnam, where six Cisco colleagues from Australia joined her. Together they took advantage of their benefits Time2Give to help build a house for two sisters in Binhu Thai. “I traded my laptop for a shovel and a spatula and dirty my hands – mixing cement, cutting steel wires and laying bricks,” Au said. “One of the new homeowners was crying into the tears of amazed joy that it wasn’t every time to run into the neighboring house. That’s when it really hit me: it was more than just a house – building security, hope and clearly.
Everything is added up
In FY16, we set a goal for 80% of employees to return their communities at least once a year until 2020.
One way we did was acknowledged that the return had a lot of different forms. Organized volunteer efforts are of value, but something good for a neighbor in need. Therefore, employees can also contribute to our 80% objectives through Cisco Citizen, a program that recognizes volunteer efforts that are not covered by other programs.
In FY24, we have again achieved our 80% goal, with 70,000 Cisco employees around the world on the service of people, planets and society.
“I feel very happy to work for a company that takes care not only of the employed” well -being, but also our communities and its surroundings, “said Vivien Chia digital marketing manager, who is also the management of APJC for Green Team Network Cisco.” Even more signal and meaningful impacts can be when there is support from business. Through the corresponding gift program, Time2Give and Cisco Citizen Citizen Citizen Citizen Citizen Outwing program, urgent changes in experience. “
Production has a collective impact
According to collective events, they contributed to building culture, where communities in need are part of our DNA. Entering a scale allows us to donate more non -profit organizations, respond to multiple crises, increase volunteering support and make more good for the world.
During the global month of volunteers, we recognize and celebrate all the ways our employees have a positive impact.
You want to read more about the impact that Cisco employees do, check out our electronic book “What we have achieved” About how we supported our employed “efforts to return and transform our collective contributions in the process.
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