We’re proud to share our 2024 Community Impact Report highlighting both our success and areas for growth. We’re sharing all of the insights and lessons learned from our community impact endeavors this past year.
We’re Knocking Volunteering Out of the Park
2024 marked the third consecutive year that our team volunteered over 5000 hours. 66% of our team members who spent 9+ months of 2024 at Seer volunteered 16 or more hours. By comparison, in 2022, that number was only 30%.
This tells us that we are succeeding in making engaging volunteer opportunities accessible to the team. While Seer sponsored over 35 volunteer activities in 2024, almost more impressively, we’ve empowered our team members to seek out opportunities in their own community.
Perhaps most importantly, volunteering is a central part of our ethos at Seer. Our leadership team leads by example, volunteering at the same rate- or even higher- than the rest of our team. We’ve built policies to support volunteer activities during the workday. Volunteering is the rock-solid foundation upon which our Community Impact program is built.
Innovation is Now the Name of the Game
In 2024 AI met the Community Impact program! While AI might not seem like an obvious fit for this work, we leveraged it to improve workflows, refine our data reporting processes, and create tools for helping our team become civically engaged.
In 2025, you’ll see us use AI to find volunteer opportunities, and to share our knowledge of this new technology with our nonprofit partners, to help set them up for success.
In 2024 we also saw our pro bono projects slow. This is not surprising; we’ve learned that there is an inverse relationship between sales and pro bono projects. As sales rise, our team bandwidth tightens, which limits the amount of pro bono projects we can take on. However, we’d hoped to scale our pro bono projects to other divisions, and that didn’t happen in 2024. Yet, pro bono work is an important part of what we do. We plan to give back $15MM to the community by 2032. We’re hoping to have a new program in the works by summer 2025 that will help us meet this goal!
We Easily Spent Nearly Every Penny of our Giving Budget
It’s never been easier to financially support organizations we care about. In 2024 we tried to give a little help to most organizations that reached out to us. Moving forward in 2025, we’ll be focusing our philanthropic giving on our key partners, making sure that they receive the same -or greater- funding in 2025 as they did in 2024. We’ll also continue to prioritize unrestricted gifts, allowing nonprofits to allocate funds where they are needed most.
Thank you for following us on this journey. Do you have a success story with your Community Impact work? Or maybe you’ve created a product to support your community? Drop us a line! We’d love to hear from you.
