Okta for Good

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.