$960K+ in Donations Raised and 4K+ Volunteer Hours Reported by GoDaddy Employees in 2023

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 23, 2024 / Empower by GoDaddy 2023 Graduates - Better Business Bureau of the Pacific Southwest.

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By April Skeete, Manager of Corporate Sustainability at GoDaddy

In 2023, GoDaddy employees played a valuable role in working to fulfill our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, making opportunity more inclusive for all. Employees donated their time and resources to important causes, and the result was a positive impact across several communities. Through volunteerism and philanthropy, we aim to strengthen our GoDaddy community by giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

As we recognize National Volunteer Month this April in the U.S., we'd like to highlight some of the ways our employees made a positive impact during 2023, including:

• Raising more than $370K in donations for over 350 organizations around the world, during a 200% donation matching campaign by GoDaddy.
• Reporting more than 4,600 volunteer hours supporting a wide variety of causes from inclusive entrepreneurship, food security, mentoring youth, housing, human services and more.
• Helping improve or curate new websites for 445 different Empower by GoDaddy entrepreneurs.
• Teaching 95 Empower by GoDaddy sessions on branding, social media and website design to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses online.

Empower by GoDaddy is our signature global social impact program that propels underserved entrepreneurs forward in their business journeys through education, networking and mentoring. In 2023, 57% of participating Empower by GoDaddy employees volunteered two or more times. Collectively, our Empower by GoDaddy employee volunteers positively impacted thousands of entrepreneurs throughout 2023.

Throughout 2023, GoDaddy employees came together as a united force, creating a sense of unity and camaraderie that was truly inspiring. They collaborated with peers, empowered underserved entrepreneurs and championed the work of GoDaddy's employee resource groups (ERGs).

GoDaddy volunteers tackled crucial tasks supporting the operations of various community organizations worldwide, including:

• Arizona employees, in coordination with our GoDaddy Black in Tech (GDBIT) and GoDaddy Latinx in Tech (GDLIT) ERGs tackled food insecurity with several events at the United Food Bank, Feed My Starving Children and St. Mary's Food Bank. Arizona employees also came together on two separate occasions to uplift youth by building and donating bicycles and hosting a children's holiday party benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of the Valley.
• The Beeston, U.K. team joined efforts to end homelessness by volunteering their time with Emmanuel House.
• In Kirkland, Washington, employees hosted a STEM activity for youth at the Boys & Girls Club of Kirkland, championing their mission of enabling young people to realize their full potential. Later in the year, employees gave their time to prepare and serve dinner to families staying at the Ronald McDonald House of Seattle, an organization supporting critically ill children and their families.
• Our GoDaddy interns came together virtually to decorate luggage bags for children transitioning into Foster Care through Foster Love.
• And lastly, hundreds of employees independently devoted their valuable time to countless causes that are personally meaningful to them.

GoDaddy employees provided entrepreneurs with access to capital.