40 years in the past, Microsoft began our Employee Giving Program with a easy purpose: help our workers’ ardour to make the world a greater place by giving their time, cash, and abilities to assist nonprofits handle the problems dealing with our world. It’s a part of our tradition, a part of our mission to empower each individual and each group on the planet to realize extra.
In 2022, Microsoft workers world wide generated extra donations and volunteer efforts than ever earlier than, elevating $248 million for 34,000 nonprofits worldwide, together with 841,000 whole volunteer hours. And whereas the organizations they supported had a variety of causes, our workers had been pushed by the identical mission: empower individuals, communities, and organizations world wide.
Our Employee Giving Program matches worker donations to nonprofits one-to-one and donates $25 to nonprofits for every hour Microsoft workers volunteer. We additionally help occasions like Hack for Good that leverage our workers’ specialised information to collaborate, create, and construct options. With Microsoft workers in 190 nations world wide, this accrues to a worldwide affect: from catastrophe reduction in India to humanitarian help in Ukraine, workers stepped as much as help communities in want.
SUPPORTING UKRAINE
At the outset of the warfare in Ukraine final 12 months, greater than 20,000 Microsoft workers from world wide raised $17 million for the “Give to Ukraine Campaign.” This whole rose to almost $21 million by the top of the 12 months, all of which introduced actual, on-the-ground reduction to Ukrainian refugees and households. Combined with broader help throughout the corporate together with within the space of cybersecurity, Microsoft has offered over $400 million for Ukraine for the reason that battle started in early 2022.
GIVING BACK TO OUR HOME
In Microsoft’s dwelling state of Washington, the affect our workers have is obvious of their generosity to native organizations. Microsoft moved to Washington in 1979 with fewer than 15 workers, and at present it’s dwelling to tens of 1000’s of our workers. In 2022, Microsoft, along with our workers, offered over $100 million in money donations and grants to 4,700 Washington state-based nonprofits, together with 386,000 volunteer hours.
Top 5 recipient organizations from Microsoft workers, by greenback quantity (inclusive of match)
In addition to the businesses listed above, an excellent instance of Microsoft worker help was for FIRST Washington, which supplies hands-on studying experiences to encourage younger individuals about science, know-how, engineering, and math. In 2022, Microsoft workers volunteered 13,620 hours of their time to assist FIRST Washington coach groups of younger engineers, mentor college students who’re traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields, and decide competitions the place college students confirmed off their information.
LOOKING AHEAD
2022 was a 12 months of record-setting generosity from Microsoft’s workers, and an instance of Microsoft’s broader affect and dedication. From supporting inexpensive housing within the Puget Sound area, to investing in native communities, to educating college students pc science, to offering grants and reductions of Microsoft cloud options and companies to nonprofits world wide, Microsoft Philanthropies is dedicated to reworking communities, and that is solely attainable due to our workers’ exhausting work, abilities, and dedication to affect.
We have already begun to construct on this success in 2023, and as we glance in the direction of the remainder of the 12 months, I’m excited to see what we will accomplish collectively.