The Gen Culture of Giving Continues To Grow

Our culture of giving is one of the defining aspects of life at Gen. All over the world, our team members find myriad ways to get involved with the causes they care about, from in-person volunteering to virtual skills sharing to targeted donation campaigns and more.

This spirit of service was on full display over the past year of business. Between April 2024 and March 2025, more than 67% of our global workforce took part in our Giving@Gen program, our highest participation rate to date. Team members logged upwards of 8,300 volunteer hours and donated nearly $153,000 to 1,710 nonprofits.

To celebrate these milestones, we’re taking a moment to recognize our employees for making such a positive impact. Thanks to their passion and dedication, we’re proud to see our culture of giving continue to grow and thrive.

Coming Together to Make a Difference

In-person volunteering is one of the ways our team members contribute to their local communities. In addition to organizing company-wide events such as our Global Volunteer Week and holiday giving campaigns, we empower our local sites to find opportunities that resonate with their employees.

For example, volunteers at our Dublin office partnered with a local elementary school for Time to Read, a nationwide literacy program that aims to address disparities in education. As part of the program, volunteers took a group of students to their local library and later welcomed them to the Gen office to learn Cyber Safety skills and more about what we do each day.

“I volunteered with Time to Read not only because I love working with kids but also because encouraging them to engage with reading is such a great opportunity,” said Márcio Barros, a web producer at Gen Dublin. “I wish I had something like this when I was a kid.”

Efforts at other sites include a “Girls in Tech” event in March at our Chennai, India office. There, team members welcomed students from nearby colleges for a day of in-depth cybersecurity training, with the aim of expanding the talent pool for the country’s growing tech industry. This office has the highest giving program participation rate across the company and holds regular events to support nonprofits such as Bhumi and Team Everest.

Additionally, nearly 100 team members at our U.S. sites in Mountain View, CA, Tempe, AZ, and Plano, TX, spent a March afternoon assembling and decorating “superhero boxes” of essential items, creative toys and art supplies designed to empower children in the foster care system in collaboration with Foster Love.

Making a Deeper Connection

In addition to in-person volunteering and donations, our team members volunteer to serve on boards and put their day-to-day skills to use for causes they care about.

Utam Reddy, our Head of Partnership Sales for North America, joined the board of the Center for Child Protection, an organization based in Austin, Texas, that provides healing and prevention services for abused children.

“Being on the board has been a great way to donate my time and skills to an important nonprofit in my community,” said Reddy. “I attend monthly board meetings and serve additional time on the finance/audit committee, and I appreciate Gen’s donation that I can give back to the Center.”

Our work with HBCU Heroes pairs Gen mentors from across the company with students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to offer career advice and skills development as they prepare to enter the professional world. This skills-based volunteering offering allows Gen team members to share their expertise both with the HBCU students and each other. Volunteers first undergo training from our People & Culture team and Talent Acquisition partners to enhance their abilities to set the students up for professional success.

This practice of peer-to-peer skills volunteering has continued across the company. Bogomil Shopov, Program Management Director of Digital Trust Service, is currently leading a global community of remote volunteers through workshops on how to use OpenStreetMap. Together, they participate in challenges such as mapping freshwater resources and underrepresented rural areas to enhance resource management, environmental conservation and data-driven decision-making.

Employees also lend their expertise to our nonprofit partners. Iskander Sanchez-Rola, our Director of AI and Innovation, spoke on a webinar hosted by TechSoup supporting our targeted product donation campaign to the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), and team members across the company can volunteer through Career Connect from Discovery Education to give virtual presentations about their jobs to classrooms around the country.

All of our Giving@Gen efforts are designed to empower our teams to use their skills, time and passions to make a positive impact. We’re grateful to our employees for an incredible year of service and are excited to continue to offer exciting giving opportunities in the years to come.

These grants were awarded from the Gen Foundation, a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.