Box Announces $100,000 Box Impact Fund Grant Recipients - Seite 2

“The grant from Box Impact Fund will allow us to digitize thousands of adoption records. This will not only help our organization financially, but most importantly will allow adoptees, birth families and adoptive families quicker access to vital information,” said Heidi Wiste, President of Children’s Home Society of Minnesota.

U.S. Digital Response (USDR): A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, USDR places experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to moments of crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public.

“These funds will allow USDR to grow our Rapid Response team and support our partners at the front lines of response, including the scaling of off-the-shelf solutions that we can repeatedly deploy to local governments. When people are in crisis, that’s when they need their governments and community organizations to show up for them the most. We’re honored to receive this grant from Box so that U.S. Digital Response can bring the best of technology to the people meeting the hardest challenges in our communities,” said Jessica Cole, CEO of U.S. Digital Response.

Water Mission: This nonprofit Christian engineering organization designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has used innovative technology and engineering expertise to provide access to safe water for more than 7 million people in 57 countries.

“This digital transformation grant from Box helps us move from traditional paper-based data collection in East Africa to a fully digitized cloud-based operation. This will enable us to be more effective in processing and utilizing data to strategically mobilize critical resources to address the most urgent water, sanitation, and hygiene needs in the communities we serve. This primarily benefits women and children as they are the most impacted by the global water crisis,” said George C. Greene IV, PE, CEO and president of Water Mission.

Box Gives Back

Box provides nearly 10,000 nonprofit organizations with the capacity-building resources they need to innovate and fulfill their missions. In addition to offering donated or discounted access to Box’s Content Cloud, Box.org, Box’s philanthropic arm, builds nonprofit capacity through employee-led volunteering and giving programs, coalition building and good business practices. Box maintains a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) at Tides Foundation and the Box Impact Fund is funded through this DAF. 75% of Box employees engage in causes they care about throughout the year with Box nonprofit partners, like local CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) organizations, Think of Us, CareerVillage, and more.