Tech Citizenship

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Since 1999, Lexington’s Ipswitch Inc. has given 5 percent of its profits directly back to local and national charities, and the company has been profitable every year since inception. Ipswitch encourages employees to volunteer whenever possible with charities they are involved with and the direction of many of the donations is led by employees.

Working with Habitat for Humanity as volunteers both allows them to become directly involved with the physical results of their charitable efforts and shows Ipswitch employees the effect their hard work has on families.

“At certain anniversaries—on the anniversary of their employment and when they have a child—we donate money in the employee’s name, and they get to choose the charity and they get the recognition for it. The idea is to get them thinking about philanthropy and their personal role in it,” said Ipswitch CEO and founder Roger Greene.

Other employees enjoy supporting the music connection the company sponsored through the Foundation to be Named Later and Give Us Your Poor concerts. And one of Ipswitch’s employees is involved with the development of a fleet of portable computers for the use of terminal teenage patients so their time in the hospital is more normal.

Citizenship Facts

Ipswitch Inc.

Total cash contributions in New England in 2008: $542,000

Number of volunteer hours in New England in 2008: 100-plus

In-kind contributions of equipment and services in New England in 2008: $10,000

Principal recipients of charitable activities in 2008: Foundation to be Named Later, Give Us Your Poor, Cradles to Crayons, Gifts to Give, CARE. Equal Justice Initiative, Habitat for Humanity, Make A Wish, Year Up and Trinity High School.

Interesting philanthropic activities: Ipswitch employees work with Habitat for Humanity to help families in need, while Gifts to Give and Cradles to Crayons allow employees to sort items and package necessary goods for children.

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