The Zendesk Foundation Announces First Inaugural Impact Awards Recipients
October 19 2022 - 12:38PM
Business Wire
The Zendesk Foundation today announced that 25 nonprofit
organizations will receive a share of $US 500,000 in cash grants,
as well as free Zendesk software, through the Foundation’s first
global Tech for Good Impact Awards. Four nonprofits were awarded
the highest grant amount of $US 50,000 each. The combination of
cash grants and technology is designed to empower a range of social
impact initiatives to scale operations in order to further help
communities and people in need.
“We believe democratizing access to technology is a key part of
creating a more equitable society,” said Adrian McDermott, CTO of
Zendesk. “If we can help drive social change by giving nonprofits
access to technology that’s easy to use and implement, we want to
make it widely available.”
Over 600 nonprofits from around the world sent in applications
in which they demonstrated how Zendesk’s suite of customer support
solutions would empower their organization’s mission and improve
operations. Applicants were scored based on their potential to
scale using Zendesk software, and finalists were selected based on
their fit with the Foundation's mission of promoting resilience,
fostering community, and increasing access to careers in
technology.
The four largest grant recipients of the 2022 Tech for Good
Impact Awards demonstrated a direct need for technology that would
help them scale despite limited staff time and financial resources,
and will work with Zendesk to further causes from environmental
action to immigrant rights.
- Rare, an international conservation organization headquartered
in Arlington, Virginia specializing in social change for the
environment, will use Zendesk tools to support a community
engagement approach to driving behavior change and increasing
climate action globally.
- Using Zendesk, Mobile Pathways will send informational messages
over SMS and WhatsApp, informing approximately 500,000 immigrants
about their legal rights. Based in Berkeley, California, Mobile
Pathways’ mission is to simplify immigration law, and to share that
knowledge with the immigrant community via mobile technology.
- Globally will leverage Zendesk to develop and scale its Refugee
Upskilling Program (ReUP), a workforce development program that
matches Afghan refugees with jobs in the technology sector. Since
2004, Globally has been the go-to organization for developing
emerging leaders in global affairs. Its network spans 80 countries
and reaches more than 30,000 emerging leaders, headquartered in
Washington DC.
- Current Tech for Good partner Spring ACT developed and
launched, Sophia, the world's first messaging chatbot empowering
survivors of domestic violence. The grant will help Spring ACT,
headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, scale significantly in order to
expand its reach to many more people in more languages.
“In partnership with Zendesk, we're proud to continue building a
community of resilient immigrant advocates who are unlocking access
to justice via mobile phone technology,” said Poesy Chen,
Co-Founder and Innovation Director, Mobile Pathways.
Tech for Good, Zendesk’s product donation arm, was launched in
2018 to provide free solutions and implementation support to
nonprofits working to solve urgent social problems, and currently
supports more than 70 organizations* around the world.
For more information about this year’s Tech For Good Impact
Award winners please visit here. For more information about
Zendesk’s Tech For Good program please visit here.
*Number excludes 2022 Tech For Good Impact Award grant
recipients, which is an additional 25 organizations.
About The Zendesk Foundation
The Zendesk Foundation was founded on Zendesk, Inc.’s core
company values of inclusivity, purpose, trust, and community. Since
2015, Zendesk and The Zendesk Foundation have donated over $US 14
million to organizations around the world who are driving real
change for the people and communities they support. Foundation
initiatives like the Tech for Good Impact Awards put those values
into action by engaging Zendesk resources in positive social
change.
About Zendesk
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by
enabling any business around the world to take their customer
service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service
everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations,
connecting more than 100,000 brands with hundreds of millions of
customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels,
communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are
built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in
Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in
New York City, and today employs more than 6,000 people across the
world. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
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