Skip to main content
Home
New to Okta

Main navigation

  • Eligibility + Enrollment
    • Eligibility
    • Enrolling and Making Benefits Decisions
    • Making Changes to Your Benefits
  • Health + Wellness
    • Mental Health Support (Modern Health)
    • Kaiser Medical
    • HMSA (HI employees only)
    • Blue Shield Medical
    • Health Savings Account (HSA)
    • Healthcare Plan Premiums
    • Rightway Healthcare
    • One Medical
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Wellness Programs
    • OktaFIT
    • Healthcare Glossary
  • Financial Benefits
    • Gradifi Student Loans
    • 401(k) Plan
    • Northstar Financial Wellness
    • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
    • HSA, FSA, & Commuter Benefits Transition
    • Commuter Benefits
    • Life/AD&D Insurance
    • Disability Coverage
    • Business Travel Accident Insurance
    • Personal Travel Assistance
    • Auto and Home Insurance
    • Pet Insurance
  • Community
    • Okta People First Culture
    • The Way We Work (Dynamic Work)
    • Our Culture of Recognition
    • Diversity, Inclusion + Belonging
    • Okta for Good
  • Career
    • New to Okta
    • Learning and Development
    • Job Opportunities
    • Your Performance
    • Leaving Okta
  • Pay + Incentives
    • Pay + Incentives Overview
    • Base Pay
    • Cash Incentive Bonus Program
    • Long-Term Incentives (RSUs)
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Time Off
    • Flexible PTO
    • Parental Leave
    • Personal Leave
    • Medical Leave
    • Other Leaves
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Holidays
  • Everyday Living
    • Carrot Fertility and Adoption Services
    • Caregiver Resources
    • Bump Boxes
    • Identity Theft
    • Legal Assistance
    • Cell Phone/Internet Reimbursement
  • Resources
    • Who to Contact
    • Mobile Apps
    • Videos
    • Documents and Forms
New to Okta

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Community
  3. Okta for Good

Okta for Good

Our commitment

We strive to be a catalyst for those making change at the intersection of humanity and technology. By mobilizing our people, products, and dollars, we enable nonprofit digital transformation, empower more equitable communities, and develop ecosystems that drive long-term change for people and the planet.

Making a difference in your communityOkta for Good FundESG + sustainabilityOkta for Good Impact Report
Making a difference in your communityOkta for Good FundESG + sustainabilityOkta for Good Impact Report

Making a difference in your community

We encourage you to donate your time and expertise to critical causes in your local community through these programs:

Volunteer time off (VTO)

Each fiscal year, you have four days (32 hours) of volunteer time off to dedicate to the nonprofit of your choice. Use all four at once, or split the hours across the entire year—it’s up to you!

New hire volunteering and giving program

Give back from day one. New Oktanauts receive a $10 giving credit in their Okta for Good Giving Portal to contribute to any of the millions of nonprofits around the world. Additionally, every quarter we host new hire virtual volunteer events for you to meet your fellow Oktanauts and learn how you can give back from your home, the office, anywhere!

Tech Pathways Week

A week dedicated to welcoming our workforce development nonprofit partners into our Okta community. Every year through Tech Pathways Week, our global teams—from San Jose to Sydney—host career panels, mentoring sessions, mock interviews, and more to expose students and job seekers from historically excluded communities to careers in tech.

Back to top

Making a difference with technology

Okta believes that mission-driven organizations can change our communities and our world. We help them do so in several ways:

Product licenses for nonprofits

Okta provides 50 free licenses for all workforce identity products and preferential pricing to qualified nonprofit organizations, making Okta’s technology more accessible to any organization whose mission is to help others. With Okta for Good, global nonprofits like Oxfam, PATH, Plan International, and Norwegian Refugee Council can focus on their important missions around the world.

Apps for Good

Through Okta’s Apps for Good program, our global customers can simply and securely deploy world-class “giving apps” to their workforces. These prebuilt, easily configured integrations, with top giving apps like Kiva, Benevity, and VolunteerMatch, make it easier than ever for companies and employees to donate time, money, expertise, and more.

ImpactCloud

Through ImpactCloud, Okta has joined forces with global humanitarian organizations and leading technology companies like Salesforce, Box, Splunk, Twilio, and others to support cross-cloud innovation in global crisis response.

Back to top

Okta for Good Fund

The Okta for Good Fund enables Okta’s strategic charitable giving. The fund deploys grants with a focus on long-term commitments, sector-wide social innovation, and collaboration.

Following are our signature partnerships:

NetHope

NetHope is a global consortium of the world’s leading nonprofits focused on technology enablement and solutions.

Okta joined on as a founding partner of NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit, an effort to enable digital transformation for NGOs.

Fast Forward

The Fast Forward organization funds and supports nonprofit entrepreneurs building original tech for social impact.

Okta’s support aids Fast Forward’s efforts to support tech nonprofits in their direct programs and entrepreneurs across the broader tech nonprofit ecosystem.

TechSoup

TechSoup is a global network enabling more than one million nonprofit organizations to gain access to technology tools and resources.

Okta for Good co-invested in TechSoup’s digital transformation initiative along with VMware, Adobe, Cisco, and Box.

The grant is funding the creation of an IT assessment tool that will give nonprofit organizations an assessment of where they are and what steps or resources they can use to improve.

This is all in support of TechSoup’s longer-term goal of moving one million nonprofits to the cloud.

Tipping Point Community

This is a nonprofit that finds and funds the most effective programs and policies fighting poverty in the Bay Area.

In February 2019, Okta committed $500,000 to Tipping Point to address poverty and homelessness in the Bay Area.

Back to top

ESG + sustainability

Okta launched our ESG program in 2020 focused on nine key issues: security; data privacy; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; workforce development; ethical business practices; health, safety, and well-being; tech for good; digital divide; energy and climate.

Corporate climate commitments

We launched our first corporate climate commitments in 2021:

  • We publicly committed to 100% renewable electricity for our global offices and remote workforce, and started to achieve this annually in 2022. We have also committed to setting science-based targets (SBTs) for absolute carbon emissions reductions. We are also connecting Sustainability to our Workplace, Health and Wellness, and Dynamic Work strategies by: (1) investing in energy-efficient buildings; (2) committing to building all new offices to both LEED Silver and WELL Silver standards; and (3) releasing the results of an independent study that projects a 21% reduction in Okta’s per-employee commuting emissions in FY23 versus pre-pandemic levels in FY20 due to reduced employee commuting and reduced workplace square footage per person. 
  • It was important that we go beyond addressing Okta’s own footprint and recognize the interconnectedness between environmental and social issues. Climate change disproportionately impacts historically marginalized communities. As first steps in ensuring equity has a place in our climate efforts, we purchase renewable energy certificates (RECs) that also have a social benefit, and Okta for Good supports organizations advancing climate justice, including GRID Alternatives and CLIMA Fund. 

For a complete view of Okta’s sustainability efforts, visit our ESG web page and fact sheet.

Benefits for employees driven by our commitment to sustainability: 

  1. Sustainability Slack Channel and Employee Engagement and Events
  2. Unagi Scooter Share Program
  3. Free Bike Parking at Okta Offices
  4. Commuter Benefits

Back to top

Okta for Good Impact Report

Okta’s core vision is to enable everyone to safely use any technology. Okta for Good takes this a step further, harnessing the power of technology to drive stronger connections and positive impact for organizations, individuals, and communities. Okta for Good is also the manifestation of our commitment to pay forward the opportunities that enabled us to build Okta over the last 13 years.

Highlights of annual report

Tackling the issues of our time—from racial injustice to the digital divide to the impacts of climate change—requires sustained commitment and radical collaboration. Our annual Impact Report highlights the impact that our team, partners, grantees, and employees have made in our communities over the past year. We include context, key results, and lessons learned from where we focused Okta for Good’s efforts in the hope that this information can be helpful for other companies and community partners.

Back to top

Related Content
Volunteer Time Off

Welcome!

Okta’s total rewards connect eligible employees and their family members to a constantly evolving portfolio of plans, services, and support for meeting their changing needs. Check out the links below to learn more and make the most of your total rewards.

Learn more about Okta
  • Eligibility + Enrollment
    • Eligibility
    • Enrolling and Making Benefits Decisions
    • Making Changes to Your Benefits
  • Health + Wellness
    • Mental Health Support (Modern Health)
    • Kaiser Medical
    • HMSA (HI employees only)
    • Blue Shield Medical
    • Health Savings Account (HSA)
    • Healthcare Plan Premiums
    • Rightway Healthcare
    • One Medical
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Wellness Programs
    • OktaFIT
    • Healthcare Glossary
  • Financial Benefits
    • Gradifi Student Loans
    • 401(k) Plan
    • Northstar Financial Wellness
    • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
    • HSA, FSA, & Commuter Benefits Transition
    • Commuter Benefits
    • Life/AD&D Insurance
    • Disability Coverage
    • Business Travel Accident Insurance
    • Personal Travel Assistance
    • Auto and Home Insurance
    • Pet Insurance
  • Community
    • Okta People First Culture
    • The Way We Work (Dynamic Work)
    • Our Culture of Recognition
    • Diversity, Inclusion + Belonging
    • Okta for Good
  • Career
    • New to Okta
    • Learning and Development
    • Job Opportunities
    • Your Performance
    • Leaving Okta
  • Pay + Incentives
    • Pay + Incentives Overview
    • Base Pay
    • Cash Incentive Bonus Program
    • Long-Term Incentives (RSUs)
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Time Off
    • Flexible PTO
    • Parental Leave
    • Personal Leave
    • Medical Leave
    • Other Leaves
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Holidays
  • Everyday Living
    • Carrot Fertility and Adoption Services
    • Caregiver Resources
    • Bump Boxes
    • Identity Theft
    • Legal Assistance
    • Cell Phone/Internet Reimbursement
  • Resources
    • Who to Contact
    • Mobile Apps
    • Videos
    • Documents and Forms
Privacy Policy & Legal Disclaimer © 2023 Okta, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.