Cisco Citizens are employees who donate money or volunteer their time to nonprofits, community projects, and various charities. The Cisco Foundation provides up to $1000 per employee each calendar year in gift-matching funds and also matches funds raised during team volunteer events. The Cisco Foundation also matches Cisco Citizens’ volunteer hours up to $1000 ($10 each hour). This contribution is over and above the matching funds for team volunteer events.
More than 15 percent of our employees use our matching gift program to make financial contributions to charities. We hope to increase the number of participants to 50 percent of employees by FY10. From August 2006 through July 2007, Cisco Citizens helped administer more than 230 team match campaigns. On average, about 45 active fund-raising campaigns are under way at any given time. These campaigns resulted in $550,000 in employee donations in FY07. The Cisco Foundation has matched more than $490,000 of those donated funds.
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