User:16912 Rhiannon/Citrix Corporate responsibility

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Corporate responsibility[edit]

The company's philanthropic activities include corporate giving—such as corporate donations of in-kind gifts—and employee match programs.[1][2] Citrix provides discounted and donated products to non-profits and other qualifying organizations through TechSoup.[3] In addition, Citrix employees are allowed to take two paid volunteer days each year and participate in the company's annual "Global Day of Impact"—an event that encourages Citrix employees to volunteer in their local communities.[4][5][6]

Near its Fort Lauderdale headquarters, Citrix has provided business training to non-profit teams. In particular, the company helped a local non-profit organization launch a computer on wheels to offer training to low-income neighborhoods. In 2007, the company connected a Broward County, Florida neighborhood with Agogo, Ghana through donated technology and training. Using the technology, the "Cyber Sister Cities" work together to sell African organic honey in the United States.[7] Furthermore, the company's Raleigh office began a program called "Project Code" in 2014, which leads youth from local Boys & Girls Clubs through coding exercises and teaches them about computer science.[8]

In addition to its philanthropic activities, Citrix has donated some of its open-source technology to non-profit software organizations to continue its development and gain more contributors. Citrix gave Cloudstack to the Apache Foundation in 2012 and Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation in 2013.[9][10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Table: Corporate Giving: In-Kind Donations". Bloomberg Business. November 30, 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  2. ^ Candice Tang Nyholt (August 28, 2013). "Foodbank to Honor Sara Miller McCune and Citrix at 'Table of Life' Gala". Noozhawk. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  3. ^ Patrick Duggan (January 23, 2012). "Citrix Gives Back". TechSoup Global. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  4. ^ Catherine Weening (July 8, 2011). "Employees volunteer in school on 'Global Day of Impact'". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  5. ^ John Palminteri (May 10, 2013). "Volunteers pick fruit for those in need". KEYT-TV. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Best Places to Work: Citrix". Triangle Business Journal. October 14, 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  7. ^ Doreen Hemlock (March 12, 2007). "3 South Florida companies are making social responsibility a top priority". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  8. ^ Sarah Barr (March 9, 2015). "Citrix teaches Raleigh students the power of coding". The News & Observer. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  9. ^ Joab Jackson (April 15, 2013). "Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation". PC World. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  10. ^ Chris Duckett (May 21, 2014). "Citrix happy with CloudStack move to Apache". ZDnet. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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