Giving Tuesday: Transforming Communities, Together.

Giving Tuesday celebrates the power of people and organizations to transform their communities. At TEKsystems, we take this day to reflect on the last year and the ways in which we—as individuals, as teams and as a company—invested in our communities and prioritized serving others. I’m both humbled and inspired at the way we as a team overcame challenges while seeking ways to enrich those around us. Again this year, we grew our giving initiatives in order to expand our reach. With the return of in-person gatherings and inventive virtual options, TEKsystems found more ways to foster our unwavering commitment to serving others.

From our key partnerships to growing initiatives and impactful projects led by individuals and teams globally, we’re celebrating our teams and how they created significant opportunities not only for our consultants, customers and colleagues but also for our communities.

Pat Tillman Foundation: Doubling Your Impact Campaign

For the sixth consecutive year, TEKsystems is pleased to sponsor the Pat Tillman Foundation’s Giving Tuesday “Double Your Impact” campaign, which will match the first $25,000 raised today by any donor. Throughout the year, TEKsystems supports Tillman Scholars, all of whom are military veterans and their spouses, making a difference in the fields of healthcare, business, public service, STEM, education and the humanities. New this year, however, is the exciting announcement that Meg Cortezi, our vice president of employee experience, has joined the board of directors for the Foundation. She looks forward to making an even greater impact through this role and helping empower the next generation of leaders.

Technovation: Welcoming New Global Services Partner

I’m thrilled to announce that we will soon be launching a new Global Services philanthropic partner, Technovation, a global tech education nonprofit that empowers girls to become leaders, creators and problem-solvers.?The Technovation Girls?program equips young women to become tech entrepreneurs and leaders. With the support of volunteer mentors, girls work in teams to code mobile apps that address real-world problems. TEKsystems Global Services will work with Technovation in Manila, India, Montreal and Dallas. We look forward to sharing more on this partnership with you soon.

Per Scholas: Expanding Partnership, Celebrating 1,000th Graduate, Board Appointments

In 2021, we continued to expand our partnership with Per Scholas, a national organization that has been advancing economic mobility for 25 years. Our workforce development partnership launched in Seattle, Phoenix and Pittsburgh this year, and we look forward to expanding our partnership. We already have thriving cohorts in Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix

Pittsburgh and Seattle. We’re proud to announce that TEKsystems is about to connect our 1,000th Per Scholas graduate with a career opportunity.

This year, I was personally humbled to be asked to join Per Scholas as a National Board member. The work of Per Scholas—including our TEKsystems partnership—is helping to change the trajectory of the IT workforce through communities across the U.S., and I’m incredibly passionate about supporting that mission. Franklin Reed, our executive director of Inclusion and Diversity, also took an even more active role in Per Scholas through Diverse by Design, which is powered by Per Scholas and ITSMF and promotes solution-driven conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion within tech. He now serves as chair of the Advisory Board.

Per Scholas enables TEKsystems to invest in our communities while advancing our purpose, and we anticipate a long partnership with Per Scholas and many new, exciting opportunities on the horizon.

Contributing to Lasting Change and the Greater Good

We continued our work with our social justice community partners and supported efforts around the world to help those in need.

·??????Equal Justice Initiative, an organization committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S. and challenging racial and economic injustice, participated in a seminar for all TEKsystems employees to increase awareness of their mission and the work they do.

·??????Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which is dedicated to transforming the lives of students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions, hosted their Leadership Institute in October, and TEKsystems took part in the ‘Real Talk’ session as well as the career fair.

·??????Center for Urban Families (CFUF) works to strengthen urban communities in Baltimore by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. The organization hosted TEKsystems employees for multiple mock interview sessions this year.

·??????Yet again, TEKsystems plans to donate to APAFHDEM to support scholarships for multiple students in Cancun, Mexico supporting individuals with disabilities.

Serving Others Through Personal Generosity

Each year, I’m in awe of the generosity each of you display as individuals and together as teams, affirming how you live our purpose.

·??????In an effort to provide relief to those devastatingly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in India, TEKsystems Global Services employees raised $37,000 for Red Cross India’s COVID campaign in one week, which the Allegis Group Foundation was proud to match.

·??????Throughout the month of October, EVERY TEKsystems employee globally had the opportunity to volunteer in their local community. Teams collected and served food in Las Vegas, cleaned up local parks in London, organized books in Huntsville, shaved their heads for pediatric cancer research in Greensboro and took part in many other service projects within their local areas. Click here to watch a video featuring our teams showing how #TEKGivesBack.?

·??????Individual TEKsystems team members from the Midwest, Northeast and Canada are wrapping up a month-long campaign of mustaches grown for Movember, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about men’s health.

·??????Our individual offices and employees represent TEKsystems in selfless acts of giving all year long. Teams from across the globe continue to join in drives, competitions, outings, service days and more in order to give back to their communities. Here in Baltimore, we’re planning an end-of-the-year toy drive in partnership with the Center for Urban Families. As you work together to support missions and visions beyond our walls, TEKsystems to date has matched more than $100,000 in employee and office giving.

All of this is truly a testament to the power we have when we work together to impact communities. At TEKsystems, we find our passion in serving others and strive to pay it forward. On behalf of the entire TEKsystems leadership team, we are so proud to be part of an organization that so thoroughly promotes serving others and is made up of people who truly live our purpose.?

As we reflect on a year well spent, may we set our sights on a bigger and better 2022.?