Community Outreach

Citrix® software brings millions of people together every day by enabling them to instantly access information from anywhere, using any device. Citrix is equally committed to bringing people together through our community outreach program, which enriches and empowers our diverse global community through the efforts of our employees and partners, and the benefits of our technology. Citrix strives to be a good global citizen while providing its employees with the means to deliver their best talent to local organizations via our products and business skills. Citrix strongly encourages community involvement, investment and volunteerism and has a history of providing grants and financial support to organizations and projects that promote better access to educational, economic and technological opportunities.

K-12 Education
Communities agree that children deserve the best education possible. Businesses agree that they deserve the most educated workforce possible. Citrix supports public-private education partnerships because a well-educated workforce provides opportunities for young people, helps our community and our economy grow, and improves our education system. One outcome of Citrix’s commitment to K-12 education is the South Florida Community Leadership Foundation (SFCLF). Citrix created and funded the SFCLF, donating $250,000 in its first year to deliver executive leadership training at the superintendent and district level. The training is similar to executive training that top managers in the Fortune 500 receive at universities. Focusing on the “Business of Education” Citrix supports a high participation level from Broward and Palm Beach County superintendents, administrative directors and school board members. All expenses for the weeklong training are paid by the SFCLF. Citrix and the SFCLF enable educators and business leaders to work together to meet the challenge.

Economic Development
In the firm belief that improved access to information for all people brings tangible economic benefits to society, Citrix has worked in cooperation with the Sister Cities Sustainable Development Network, the World Bank, the United Nations, Habitat for Humanity and the Digital Development Partnership. Together, we address sustainable information access issues associated with the “digital divide.” Our approach optimizes the social and economic impact of information and communications technology initiatives for underserved communities by enabling secure global access to software applications and the Web. With Citrix support, our partners promote an affordable application service provider (ASP) model of on-line computing that is sustainable in developing communities.

Technology Advancement
Citrix was founded in 1989 with a vision that continues to guide the company today: to make it easy for people to access information on demand. To accomplish this globally, we focus our support on local training programs to transfer knowledge of technology and business management within developing and underserved communities. We do this in cooperation with partners in hundreds of our Citrix Authorized Learning Centers (CALCs) worldwide. Volunteers from the greater Citrix community contribute their time and expertise based upon their own educational and work-related experiences, applying their “best talent” skills to the projects we embrace.