Riverbed REACH OUT Volunteer Week Benefits Over 30 Global Charities With More Than 2,000 Hours of Community Service
November 13 2018 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Riverbed employees worldwide participate in
week-long community service effort to positively affect local
charities
Riverbed®, The Digital Performance Company™, today announced
that during the week of November 12, more than 700 employee
volunteers will provide more than 2,000 hours of community service
at 30 local charitable organizations in 21 of the Company’s largest
global locations. The annual Riverbed REACH OUT (Riverbed Employees
Assisting Community and Helping Out) Week will help out nonprofit
organizations focused on anti-poverty efforts, natural disaster
relief, disadvantaged youth, community development, and
education.
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Riverbed employees at San Francisco HQ
gather to kick off REACH OUT volunteer week that benefits over 30
global charities with more than 2,000 hours of community service.
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Riverbed REACH OUT Week celebrates its third year. It began
after a successful pilot program in 2016 at Riverbed’s headquarters
in San Francisco where more than 200 employees volunteered at five
local charities, and in 2017 more than 600 Riverbed employees
performed 1,500 hours of community service at 30 local charitable
organizations in 15 of the Company’s largest global locations. This
year’s global expansion will increase the amount of community
service by more than 30 percent provided by employees during
Riverbed REACH OUT Week, and compliments company volunteer and
fundraising efforts that take place at Riverbed throughout the
year. Projects in 2018 range from cleaning and decorating homeless
shelters, helping to build or paint homes, sorting food at local
food banks or for holiday care packages, tutoring children and
assisting at soup kitchens.
“Community service and sustainability programs that make a
positive impact in the world on a global and local level are deeply
rooted in Riverbed’s DNA and our company purpose,” said Paul
Mountford, CEO of Riverbed. “It is with great pride that we enter
our third year of our week-long community service effort known as
Riverbed REACH OUT, as we strive to make a meaningful difference by
supporting charitable organizations that help people in need and
those underserved in our communities.”
“With the holidays approaching, we need all the help we can get
to deliver nutritious food to our neighbors in need. It’s
comforting to know that we’ll once again have our friends from
Riverbed assisting us in the warehouse as part of their REACH OUT
week,” said Paul Ash, Executive Director at San Francisco-Marin
Food Bank. “Our long-standing partnership with Riverbed has made a
world of a difference for the people we serve, and for that we are
grateful.”
As part of REACH OUT Week, Riverbed will also donate
approximately 100 laptops to RRRcomputer.org. “RRRcomputer.org
encourages corporations and individuals to donate rather than
recycle their computers,” said Hue Mach, Founder of RRRComputer.
“We then refurbished them to give to low income kids for education
and after school programs. I am very excited Riverbed is
participating in this program and helping to make a positive
difference for kids and schools.”
Riverbed REACH OUT Week 2018 includes volunteer projects in the
following cities:
- U.S.: San Francisco; Sunnyvale/San
Jose; Thousand Oaks, CA; Bethesda, MD; Nashua, NH; New York City;
Boston/Cambridge; Champaign, IL; Reston, VA; Durham, NC; Austin,
TX
- EMEA: Paris; Dusseldorf; Munich;
Hoofddorp, Netherlands; Bracknell, UK – near London; Cluj, Romania
and Hod HaSharon, Israel
- APJ: Singapore; Sydney; Bangalore
During REACH OUT Week 2018, Riverbed will support the following
charitable organizations:
A Wider Circle Headstreams Sebastian’s
Action Trust Alemany Farm HealthTrust Second Harvest Food Bank
Ananya Hynes Convention Center SF Marin Food Bank Boys & Girls
Club of Thousand Oaks Manna Conejo Food Bank Stoelenproject
CUatHome Manna Food Center Tender Loving Care Deutscher
KinderschutzBund Ortsverband München e.V. Mount Vernon RECenter
Texas Capital Food Bank Earleywood Community Center Nashua Soup
Kitchen and Shelter Ulistac Natural Area Education Outside On The
Rise, Inc Virtual Blood Drive through Red Cross Food Bank NYC Stock
and Shop Our City Forest Wesey Mission Food Bank of Eastern and
Central North Carolina Habitat for Humanity (Champaign, IL) RRR
Computer Habitat for Humanity (Acasa, Romania) Sacred Heart
Salvation Army
Founded in 2002, Riverbed delivers an integrated Digital
Performance Platform™ that brings Digital Experience Management and
Next-Generation Infrastructure solutions – including SD-WAN, App
Acceleration and Wi-Fi solutions – that provides a modern IT
architecture for the digital enterprise. At more than $1 billion in
annual revenue, Riverbed’s 30,000+ customers include 98% of the
Fortune 100 and 100% of the Forbes Global 100. Throughout
Riverbed’s history, employees have volunteered together through
Riverbed REACH OUT (Riverbed Employees
Assisting Community and Helping OUT). The
mission of Riverbed REACH OUT is to mobilize employee volunteers in
our local communities and provide charitable donations to
organizations that address anti-poverty programs, natural disaster
relief and disadvantaged youth.
About Riverbed
Riverbed®, The Digital Performance Company™, enables
organizations to maximize digital performance across every aspect
of their business, allowing customers to rethink possible.
Riverbed’s unified and integrated Digital Performance Platform™
brings together a powerful combination of Digital Experience
Management and Next-Generation Infrastructure solutions that
provides a modern IT architecture for the digital enterprise,
delivering new levels of operational agility and dramatically
accelerating business performance and outcomes. At more than $1
billion in annual revenue, Riverbed’s 30,000+ customers include 98%
of the Fortune 100 and 100% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at
riverbed.com.
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