Security Gives Back: Verkada Reaches Into Community and Around the World to Help

Three years ago, Verkada launched Verkada Gives, a community service initiative that started by embracing and helping causes near its headquarters location during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic before eventually expanding to about 20 countries around the world.

With a mission of “giving back to communities in which we’re living, working and operating in,” there are three components to Verkada Gives: donations of money, donations of products and donating time, says Verkada vice president of people Dervilla Lannon.

The company is constantly talking about how to expand the Verkada Gives program outreach and make it better through a company Slack channel, says Lannon, who challenged the sales team to do the most volunteer work in the company to earn a prize during her keynote at the company sales summit.

“It’s really just awesome to see them provide insight into the into the cause, what work they’re doing and perhaps how they’ve contributed or we’ve contributed,” says Lannon about the Verkada Gives Slack channel discussion.

“People post their pictures and I definitely think it builds interest amongst the rest of the employee base in terms of what other teams are doing,” she says, noting the company offers all employees two days off per year to dedicate to volunteering.