With greater than 2000+ volunteer hours contributed, 2070 group meals served, and 15 native charities supported in 2019, Vidyard continues to behave upon its group engagement initiatives constructing a robust “give again” technique that conjures up others.
KITCHENER, Ontario – December 10, 2019 – Vidyard, the main video platform for companies, celebrates one other yr of constructing its Neighborhood Engagement Program for the reason that firm reordered its stakeholder listing in December of 2018, prioritizing ‘Neighborhood’ above ‘Buyers’ in a daring transfer for a expertise firm of its measurement.
All through 2019, Vidyard employees and management groups had been concerned in numerous actions to assist local people give again applications:
- Served greater than 2070 meals on the Home of Friendship, a Kitchener-based group that gives assist companies for these coping with poverty, starvation, homelessness, and habit.
- Logged greater than 2000 volunteer hours on the Home of Friendship, in addition to by outreach programming with LAUNCH Waterloo, THEMUSEUM, Technovation, Catalyst on the College of Waterloo, and the Waterloo Area District College Board.
- Hosted over 100 community-focused occasions of their workplace together with programming to assist LGBTQ+ in Expertise with Makingspace, Woman Geek Dinners, Home of Friendship, Girls Studying Code and lots of others.
- Generated $15,000 in group donations, together with items to assist organizations concerned in constructing a flourishing native arts tradition, creating entrepreneurship and management programming, aiding healthcare and wellness, and group 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 group occasions carry collectively younger professionals in enjoyable and unconventional methods to attach, construct and keep our group. Since Plugin started, Vidyard has supported 14 native charities.
“Vidyard’s Neighborhood 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, Neighborhood Engagement Program Supervisor at Vidyard. “For instance, we’ve got 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 Neighborhood as a real stakeholder throughout its first annual Vidyard Provides Again program. This system was constructed for workers inquisitive about opting-in throughout work hours to assist considered one of six native charities. Over 14 days, greater than 200 staff from Kitchener, Vancouver and Boston had been divided into 35 teams which then rotated throughout six completely different organizations through the two-week interval.
Actions had been on the request of organizations, and included portray a standard 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, working intramural soccer with KW Habilitation, serving to put together dinner for the KW Habilitation fundraising occasion, serving breakfast with Diet For Studying, and localized applications for groups in Vancouver and Boston.
The 2 weeks of Give Again had been so profitable for the members of Vidyard’s groups, that staff at the moment are supplied with two days of depart annually to volunteer and contribute to one thing that issues most to them.
“Neighborhood 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 group the place I reside 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 awesome expertise and I’d love to come back again subsequent yr,” says Miko Taruc on volunteering with the Home of Friendship.
#BanditTour
Earlier this yr, 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 volunteerism and pro-bono service consultations that assist video best-practices and methods designed assist improve affect and attain.
The 1500km 2019 tour started in Vancouver and ran by 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 assist, together with Large Brothers of Higher Vancouver, Down Syndrome Useful resource Basis, Georgia Strait Alliance, BC Parks Basis, Teen Feed, Bloodworks NW, With Love, Elementary Literacy Inc., Associates of the Dunes, and others.
“The Bandit Tour represents a chance for us to hyperlink arms with an awesome associate. In doing so, we mix our mental and bodily sources to each assist not-for-profit organizations get extra mileage out of their expertise investments and assist them of their every day volunteer and labour wants,” says Michael Litt, CEO and co-founder of Vidyard. “This tour reveals our respective groups that it’s doable to develop with empathy and to leverage our immense privilege for social affect”.
All through 2020, Vidyard will proceed to prioritize weekly volunteering, mentorship programming by native STEAM/STEM initiatives, blood drives, large-scale company-wide occasions, and Plugin group assist actions.
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