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
Up to 80hrs (between April-August): Complete project virtually during the Volunteer Sprint
30 minutes: Complete feedback survey upon completion of Volunteer Sprint

Wave 7 volunteer projects are expected to be completed between April–August 2026. During this period, employees may contribute up to 80 hours of volunteer support, with the schedule flexibly designed in partnership with their nonprofit.

The 80 hours can be spread out in whatever way works best for you and your nonprofit partner, as long as the engagement is completed within the April–August program window.

Extensions beyond August will only be considered in rare cases involving extenuating personal or professional circumstances and must be approved in advance by Global Good.

Potentially. For Wave 7 (April–August 2026), employees may contribute up to 80 hours of volunteer support during the program window. While 80 hours is the maximum allocation, some projects may require fewer hours depending on scope and how the work progresses.

Employees and nonprofits will co-design a schedule that works for both parties within the April–August timeframe. If a project is completed before the full 80 hours are used and no additional support is needed, employees may:

1. Explore whether their nonprofit partner has additional clearly scoped work that can be completed within the remaining available hours, or
   
2. Conclude their engagement early and return to regular work responsibilities.
   

The key expectation is that the engagement remains within the April–August 2026 program window, with flexibility in how the hours are structured.

No. Volunteer Sprint for Wave 7 is designed to take place between April–August 2026, with employees contributing up to 80 hours during that timeframe. The schedule is flexible and co-created with your nonprofit partner, but the engagement is expected to conclude within the program window.

Some nonprofits may have larger or longer-term initiatives where multiple employees contribute across different phases. In those cases, part of your 80 hours may include onboarding, knowledge transfer, or transition support.

If, after completing your 80 hours, you would like to continue supporting the same nonprofit in another capacity, we strongly encourage you to do so using F5’s Volunteer Time Off (VTO) program or other ongoing volunteer opportunities outside of the structured Wave 7 engagement.

Because the engagement is flexible, we expect employees who are accepted to the Volunteer Sprint to proactively plan their volunteer hours around known holidays, vacations, and company-designated time off. When co-creating your schedule, please account for any planned absences to ensure your 80 hours can be completed within the program window.

If unexpected sick leave or other unforeseen circumstances arise, you should notify both your manager and your nonprofit partner as soon as possible and realign on a revised schedule within the April–August timeframe.

If your engagement overlaps with a Wellness Weekend, you should plan in advance with your nonprofit partner to either:

1. Schedule your hours around those days, or
2. Adjust your volunteer timeline within the program window to ensure you are still able to complete your agreed-upon hours.

The key expectation is clear communication and proactive planning so that you fulfill your commitment within the Wave 7 program period.

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.

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.

Between 75-125 employee volunteers is our target in 2026.

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 the 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 2026.

Wave 7 runs between April–August 2026, and you may contribute up to 80 volunteer hours, scheduled flexibly in partnership with your nonprofit. Because the timing is co-designed, you and your manager should plan in advance to balance priorities, adjust workloads, and ensure coverage during your volunteer hours.

While this model is more flexible, it still requires thoughtful planning and clear communication.

It’s also important to remember that F5 has made a commitment to our nonprofit partners. Once you commit to a project, we expect you to follow through on your agreed-upon scope and hours within the program window. We will do everything we can to support you in successfully completing that commitment.

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 2027. 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 (via the kickoff event). 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.

Because Wave 7 (April–August 2026) is designed with flexible scheduling — up to 80 hours co-created between you and your nonprofit partner — minor timing adjustments within the program window can typically be worked out directly with your nonprofit, as long as expectations remain clear and the full commitment is honored.

Requests to change your project entirely, or to move your engagement outside of the April–August program window, will only be considered in cases involving extenuating personal or professional circumstances that truly require a change.

As always, clear and early communication is essential so we can support both you and the nonprofit effectively.

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 over 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.

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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 may be a tracking sheet to help track hours - more to be shared during the kickoff event.