We expect the following time commitments will be necessary:

15-30 minutes: Complete application for Volunteer Sprint
1 hour: Attend kick-off call for Volunteer Sprint hosted by Global Good
4-8 hours: Identify a project and connect directly with a non-profit that best suits your skills and interests
Two weeks (or 10 business days): Complete project virtually during the Volunteer Sprint
30 minutes: Complete feedback survey upon completion of Volunteer Sprint

Only if there are extenuating personal or professional circumstances that require it and your exception has been approved by Global Good.

Potentially. Non-profit projects (or segments of a longer-term project) are generally designed to be completed within two weeks (or 10 business days) and we expect that to be the standard amount of time volunteers dedicate to a project.

If a project is completed sooner and the non-profit has no other support required from an F5 employee volunteer before two weeks are completed, employee volunteers can either:

1. Seek out an additional non-profit project that could be completed within their remaining Sprint. Please note though that shorter-term assignments may be harder to find.
   
2. Complete their Volunteer Sprint early and “return” to work, earlier than scheduled.

No. Our focus is on providing two weeks (or 10 business days) per employee to dedicate to each project. Some non-profits may have longer projects where multiple employees participate, in which case part of your Sprint may include project onboarding and/or offboarding.

However, if after your Volunteer Sprint is over you want to continue supporting the same nonprofit in a different volunteering capacity, we highly encourage you to use your Volunteer Time Off (VTO) or volunteer time matching program.

We expect employees who are accepted to the Volunteer Sprint to select projects with nonprofits that work around or avoid holidays and do not conflict with their vacations. If employees need to take sick days during the Volunteer Sprint, we expect the employee volunteer to alert both their manager and the nonprofit to determine how to complete the Sprint at a later date. If your Sprint project takes place during a quarterly Wellness Weekend you are expected to either coordinate this in advance with your nonprofit partner and still take those days off and extend your Sprint timeframe to ensure all 10 days/80 hours are dedicated to your project or you can coordinate separately with your manager to reschedule your Wellness Weekend for a separate time. If your Sprint overlaps with any planned time off you are still expected to ensure you are fulfilling the 10 day commitment to your Sprint project.

No. Global Good will track employee participation through registration to project completion on the MovingWorlds platform. However, volunteer time outside the Volunteer Sprint DOES require you to register your volunteer time in Benevity.

If you are a hybrid employee your 10 Volunteer Sprint business days count towards your 30 in-office day requirement. You will need to track each individual day into the self-reporting in-person attendance tracker after the completion of your Volunteer Sprint. Instructions on this will be sent once you return back to F5 after the completion of your Volunteer Sprint.

While we absolutely love your enthusiasm and eagerness to provide MORE impact for nonprofits in need we are limiting F5ers to participating in a Volunteer Sprint after 2 years from the date in which you completed your initial Sprint to ensure there is opportunities for F5ers who have not had a chance to participate to do so.

A total of 75 employee volunteers is our target in 2025.

All regular full time and part-time employees in good standing – no matter the location, tenure, role, level or experience – are eligible to apply. If your application is selected, the number #1 criteria is a commitment to complete your Volunteer Sprint project virtually within the timing of your selected wave.

No. In fact, if you have never volunteered before, we would welcome your application! We want to offer our non-profit partners a diverse mix of F5 employee experience, and that includes volunteering experience.

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No. We expect employee volunteers to work directly with their managers and teams to plan ahead on the timing of when you will commit to complete the Volunteer Sprint in 2025. Similar in some ways to taking two weeks of Personal Time Off (PTO), the employee and the manager should work together in advance to reprioritize, balance &/or postpone workloads in advance of a Volunteer Sprint.

What we also ask employee volunteers and managers to keep top of mind is that F5 has made a commitment to our non-profit partners to support and complete their projects. So, when an employee volunteer commits to a project, we will do everything we can to complete it.

During their Volunteer Sprint, we expect employees to:

1. Use their F5-issued laptops, devices and email addresses to conduct the basic tasks and communications required of a nonprofit’s project.
   
2. Apply the general expertise and skills they have honed at F5 (and at other companies) to help advise and contribute to the nonprofit’s project.
   
3. Follow the F5 Code of Conduct and F5’s enterprise policies, including Information Security or Technology Services-related policies, during their Volunteer Sprint.
   
   

During their Volunteer Sprint, F5 employees should NOT:

1. Share any F5 confidential, proprietary information, such as intellectual property, like trade secrets, patents, trademarks, and copyrights; business, marketing, and service plans; engineering and manufacturing ideas; designs; databases; records; salary information; and unpublished financial data and reports.
   
2. Use proprietary F5 assets, applications, intellectual property or technologies to complete their Volunteer Sprint.

When in doubt, please reach out to globalgood@f5.com with any questions or concerns.

We sincerely hope that does not happen, but we understand there may be extenuating circumstances.

When there are work obligations competing with the Volunteer Sprint, we expect employees and their managers to reprioritize projects together (similar to planning for PTO) to accommodate the Sprint and meet our commitments to our non-profit partners. If there are significant customer or operational issues that cannot be shifted, please reach out to globalgood@f5.com and the team will work together with employees, managers and nonprofit partners to determine an alternative volunteer or project.

If there are exceptional personal reasons that necessitate a cancellation of your Volunteer Sprint, please 1.) let your selected nonprofit partner know directly and 2.) reach out to globalgood@f5.com so the team can help the nonprofit partner find an alternative volunteer.

No. The Volunteer Sprint is paid time off from F5.

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Yes. There is a mandatory, but brief, survey to complete at the end of each employees’ Volunteer Sprint with your organization to ensure a) employees and non-profits needs were met during the project and b) learn what we can improve in the program for 2025. You may also be asked if you would be willing to share your experience with the Volunteer Sprint in broad internal or external communications by F5 Global Good or MovingWorlds.

All F5 employees will volunteer virtually for their projects. However, we will also make sure time zones and language are not barriers to your project’s completion with our nonprofit partners.

No, currently all Volunteer Sprint projects are designed by the nonprofits to be completed virtually. If you are located close to your matched nonprofit or one of their staff you are welcome to coordinate meeting or working on your project in-person however, that is not expected. We intend to seek out in-person projects in the future.

As a multinational enterprise technology company, F5 employees can offer a diverse mix of skills to non-profits. The list below represents the kinds of skills support non-profits have requested so far, but we expect F5ers will bring many other types of expertise not even accounted for here!


Accounting, Advertising, Brand, Business Strategy, Communications, Data Analysis, Database Management, Engineering, Event Planning, Finance, Fundraising, HR, IT, Legal, Leadership or Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Multimedia, Operations, Product Design, Product Management, Sales, Social Media, Software Development, Training, User Research, Vendor Management, Videography, Web Design, Web Development, Translation Services.

If you bring other skills that you think may be especially relevant to non-profits, please be sure to indicate those areas of expertise in your application.

Please think holistically about all the different skills and expertise you could bring to a nonprofit – not just what you are currently responsible for at F5.

We believe Volunteer Sprints offer some form of personal and professional development to all employee volunteers, but we also encourage employees to think of ways in which a Volunteer Sprint could expand your skillset too. You may want to focus on identifying projects with non-profits that would act as a stretch assignment for you.

F5 has invited all nonprofit organizations that have received a STEM Education, Tech for Good, Community Impact, or Black Education Empowerment Initiative grant since 2020 to participate and suggest projects for F5 volunteers.

Nonprofits will register their project(s) and F5 employee volunteers will register their skills on the MovingWorlds platform. Employee volunteers should proactively search out projects that match their skill set and contact non-profits directly to see if they are a match. MovingWorlds staff will also help step in and match projects and volunteers, if there are signs non-profits or employees are not connecting or locating matching projects.

You have a choice! Employee volunteers will register on the MovingWorlds platform to discover projects and connect with non-profits directly. The employee and nonprofit will mutually agree to complete the Sprint together before your wave begins. MovingWorlds will assist by providing project match suggestions where your skills are matched to the needs of the nonprofit organizations but those are simply suggestions and you are not expected to match with those projects should you not want to.

We hope you will explore the projects with our existing STEM Education, Tech for Good, Community Impact, or Black Education Empowerment Initiative grantees on the MovingWorlds platform first - they really could use your help. However, if there are no other available nonprofit projects that suit your skills or interests, other projects that MovingWorlds has already vetted will also be displayed on the platform for you to choose from.

We will make every effort to find a nonprofit project that fits with your skills and interest. If none of our partner nonprofits’ projects are relevant to your skills, MovingWorlds will introduce F5ers to suitable nonprofits (that are not currently F5 Global Good partners) participating in other volunteer programs on their platform.

F5 and MovingWorlds will require onboarding training to be completed by every employee before their Volunteer Sprint begins. The topics covered will include how to use the MovingWorlds platform to discover projects and connect with nonprofits, as well as best practices to help ensure employees and non-profits alike have a great experience during their Volunteer Sprint.

Please reach out to globalgood@f5.com immediately so the team can help you resolve the project issue or find an alternative nonprofit partner.

Changes in Volunteer Sprint timing or projects will be allowed if there are extenuating personal or professional circumstances (see below) that absolutely require it.

Extenuating professional circumstances would include unforeseen customer or enterprise-wide operational issues, such as a CVE response, IT/service outage, or M&A activity; a violation of our Code of Conduct and Ethics by the nonprofit or you; or a change in your performance meaning you are no longer in good standing at F5. Extenuating personal circumstances would include unforeseen events, such as ill health or bereavement leave.

Extenuating professional circumstances would not include team-level priorities, such as changes in project deadlines, event attendance or roles/responsibilities. Extenuating personal circumstances would not include individual preferences, such as vacation schedules or a change in personal interest in a nonprofit project.

If there are exceptional professional reasons that necessitate a change or a cancellation of your Volunteer Sprint, you should reach out to globalgood@f5.com and cc: your manager as soon as possible. The Global Good team will then work together with you, your manager and nonprofit partner to determine an alternative volunteer or project.

If there are exceptional personal reasons that necessitate a cancellation of your direct report’s Volunteer Sprint, you need to reach out to globalgood@f5.com as soon as possible so the team can help the nonprofit partner find an alternative volunteer.

What we ask that you and your manager to keep top of mind is that F5 has made a commitment to our nonprofit partners, who have far fewer resources than we do, to support and complete their Volunteer Sprint projects.
When you commit to a project, we want to do everything we can to complete it and not disrupt the careful planning, time and considerable efforts of our nonprofit partners.

MovingWorlds is a vendor that the Global Good team selected to help manage and scale the Volunteer Sprint program. MovingWorlds has 13 years of experience managing similar programs with employees from companies like Microsoft, SAP and Unilever and nonprofits and social businesses around the world.

MovingWorlds has a SaaS platform to connect nonprofits around the world with highly skilled professionals (including corporate employees from F5) to work on capacity-building projects, provide targeted learning modules and resources, and connections with peers.

Yes. We are allocating the same rate we use for volunteer time matching at $15USD/hour. For every F5 employee that volunteers 80 hours to a Volunteer

Sprint project, F5 will donate $1200USD to the participating non-profit. This donation will be disbursed to the nonprofit you complete your Sprint with the following quarter from when you complete your project.

By all means! You can learn more about how to donate to nonprofits on Benevity. Global Good’s guidelines for matching your donations to nonprofits are also available here.

No.

All regular full-time and part-time employees have 8 hours of VTO per calendar year and may split up the 8 hours of VTO in any increment they choose, with any number of nonprofit organizations they choose. More information on VTO guidelines are available here.

No, Global Good will track your hours and disburse the funding to the nonprofits. There will be no action required on your end for this.