Corporate Giving and Community Involvement

Amdocs recognizes that an integral part of being a successful company is being a socially responsible corporate citizen

As such, we strive to be actively involved in the communities where we live and work, and to contribute from our resources and talents to assist in community projects.

There are many types of community involvement. At Amdocs, we have taken upon ourselves to support the well-being and enhance the educational opportunities of children-at-risk in the communities that we call home. In order to offer these children the prospect of a better future, we must do what we can today to alleviate social gaps and create opportunities for those who might otherwise be left out.

Our commitment to this goal requires that we go beyond monetary donations and engage our employees more fully in the important mission of corporate citizenship

Amdocs world-wide volunteers are active in USA (St. Louis, Champaign, San Jose, Atlanta, Charlotte and Sacramento), Brazil (São Paulo), India (Gurgaon and Pune), Dublin, Czech Republic (Prague), Cyprus, and Israel (Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, and Negev).

RECENT ACTIVITIES

For the seventh year running, Amdocs is marking Universal Children's Day (UCD) a global initiative designed to reach out to thousands of children in the communities where Amdocs' centers are based. Universal Children's Day has now become an Amdocs tradition. It provides us with an opportunity to celebrate the volunteer efforts of our employees.

This year, a range of on-site fun activities are being held in Israel, UK, Cyprus, India, Romania, Thailand, and 14 sites in North America. Amdocs is also partnering with UNICEF in a global fundraiser in which employees will be given the opportunity to donate to selected UNICEF projects. This support means that UNICEF will be able to provide assistance, health care and education to children that need it for their survival.

Amdocs' Community Relations is led by over one thousand volunteers worlwide. Each year, Amdocs' volunteers undertake an impressive amount of local community based projects. Amdocs is committed to good community relations and having a positive impact on the communities in which we are based. We encourage employees to give their time and skills to children in need and fund projects and allow work time to achieve these goals.

Special Recognition
Amdocs Israel Community Relations has been recognized as the most significant contributor to the community based on the votes of the readers of "TheMarker"/"Haaretz.com" and an evaluation committee who considered the work of over 30 companies.

As the winner of this prestigious award, Amdocs Israel was recognized at an award ceremony of the "100 most influential businesses".

Amdocs won the award not only for the sizable monetary donations made by the company and its employees, but primarily for the personal involvement of hundreds of volunteers.

Americas
Asia Pacific
EMEA

NORTH AMERICA

St. Louis Food Drive
Amdocs' commitment to community service was put into action recently in St. Louis. The first community project was a food drive and thanks to the efforts of the St. Louis employees, the drive was an overwhelming success. Amdocs was able to donate over 8,000 food items to three local food pantries.

Champaign C-U One-to-One and the Crisis Nursery
Supporting school based mentoring program and ongoing volunteering through the provision of emergency intervention, respite care, and support to families in crisis.

San Jose Back-to-School Drive
In Santa Clara county 85,000 children are enrolled in the California Free or Reduced Lunch Program (Title I). This year, together with caring companies, the goal is to help 15,000 low-income children in the Title I program by providing them with a new backpack containing the tools they need in order to succeed.

Atlanta Children's Shelter
Amdocs employees spend time reading to and playing games with toddlers and pre-schoolers at the Atlanta Children's Shelter. The Shelter provides free day care, emotional support and an educational curriculum for homeless children.

Charlotte Steele Creek Schools
We continue our efforts with the Steele Creek Schools mentoring, reading, lunch buddies, Junior Achievement for at-risk children.

Sacramento El Dorado Hills School
The 64 bowlers brought in over $6300 almost twice the goal for the event. The funds support programs providing mentoring for at-risk youth in El Dorado Hills.

BRAZIL

São Paulo Casa da Amizade Institution
Around January every year, a campaign is launched to raise funds to buy the school materials. Amdocs Brazil employees contribute 50% of the cost of purchasing the materials for the kits and Amdocs matches employee contributions. This year, Amdocs Brazil has been asked to buy, assemble, and distribute 580 kits.

INDIA

'Blossom', an Amdocs India initiative works with around 350 volunteers ( Pune & Gurgaon) to make life better for the under-privileged children in association with various NGOs. Blossom partners with 3 NGO’s in Pune & 3 in Gurgaon and keeps on supporting other NGOs time and again voluntarily.

PUNE:

Prayatna: PRAYATNA for People with Special Needs, was started in 1997 to cater to the needs of young adults (14+) with disabilities. Youngsters are trained in preparing for a vocation including functional academics, daily living skills, self help skills, work habits etc. Annapurna Yuval Krida Mandal & Vyayamshala: Annapurna is a residential school for destitute children under the age of 15. It is located in the lush green heart of Phursumgi Village with little infrastructure and facilities. The school not only teaches around 250 students from class 1 to 10 but also houses them within the 14 rooms and looks after their needs. The staff comprises of a handful of dedicated faculty and helpers who live in-house to care for the children.

Hope House: The Salvation Army (Hope House) is an evangelical church committed to social action. Without discrimination they work with the community for life enrichment. They are volunteers and professional people caring for the body, mind and soul. Hope House is an international movement registered in India as a religious and charitable organization. Hope House creates and provides opportunity for nurturing the children whilst maintaining contact with parents and family, providing help for them to break habits and learn true care for the children.

GURGAON:

ADAA: Apni Duniya Apna Ashiana (Our World Our Home), is an effort aimed at helping, assisting and guiding the lives of underprivileged, orphaned, abandoned and differently able children in the weaker sections of the society.

Alamb: "ALAMB", came in existence in the year 1992 as a dream of local youths determined to elevate quality of life of the people at disadvantage considering human as the most important resource. Their area of intervention is Child Development, Women Empowerment, Community Health, Community Organization, Human Resource Development, Networking.

Deepashram: Established on 3rd July 1994 in Gurgaon, Deepashram shelters and cares for at present 53 mentally and/or physically handicapped boys and men ranging in age from 10-35 years old. Deepashram is run by the Society of the Missionaries of Charity Brothers of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Activities:

Supply of Stationary items worth Rs. 2000 to Art Pitara for an Art workshop In Ladakh through donation drive in Amdocs India.
Amdocs volunteered to make school kits for around 5000 under privileged children with a cash donation of Rs 1,70,000. Amdocs Blossom Volunteers and employees also took initiative and helped the organization Seva Sahayog to assemble and distribute these kits. We are happy to have made education better for these children by supplying school kits before the education session starts.
Around 100 computers have been donated to NGOs in need for vocational training and official needs. Amdocs India yearly donates used PCs in fully functional condition to the needy NGOs.
Blossom India ensures that children have fun too apart from our continuous focus on studies. A 5-days Bollywood Dance workshop was organized in two local NGOs in Pune to begin the summer session after the children came back from holidays for their new academic year.

CZECH REPUBLIC

Prague Klanovice Orphanage : Day trip in Prague with children from the Klanovice orphanage.
In addition to its volunteer activities, the Prague branch also donates computers to the orphanage's children.

CYPRUS

Theotokos foundation: The 'Amdocs Cyprus Care Forum' coordinates events for the children of the Theotokos foundation.
Amdocs volunteers select their own areas of interest in volunteer activities, and have several sub-committees for the Theotokos Foundation, responsible for different areas of work.

DUBLIN

Amdocs Changing Worlds employees and their families recently took part in the third Annual Barnardos 5K Santa Dash fun-run at Marlay Park, Dublin.
"On Yer Bike" challenge for Ireland’s largest children’s Charity, Barnardos. This was a coast to coast cycle from Dublin to Galway, a distance of roughly 200 km, right in the reception area of our office, on two exercise bikes!
Employees fromtwo Dublin offices took part in a fundraising drive to supportour Charity Partner, Barnardos. The event started off with the idea of giving the Dublin teams a chance to wear their favorite team jersey for the day and make a donation to Barnardos.
Go Painting: James Ryan and a group of volunteers jumped at the chance to get out of the office and do some painting for the day at a centre for children.They went to Millbrook Centre in Old Bawn, Tallaght (a suburb of Dublin), which provides a number of care services to children and parents in one of the poorer areas of Dublin.

ISRAEL

Kfar Saba Alumim Boarding School, Raanana; "Kfar Batya" Boarding School, Haifa; Efraim Tsemach School, Haifa; Tirat HaCarmel Youth Center & Clubhouse, Jerusalem; Ma'alot" The Corky Ribakoff Center, Negev; "Gutwirth" High School and Educational Center, Hod HaSharon; learning Center "Makom Balev".

Amdocs volunteers support children and youth from all over Israel and from different social strata to provide for these children and enables them to continue learning in the regular school system.

Home Improvement: renovating children's rooms
Big Brother/Sister Program
Help with homework
Library/gameroom activities
After study activities: petting zoo, soccer and many more

UNITED KINGDOM

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) - An Amdocs UK Community Initiative

Amdocs IT Auction, 29th September 2010: In the style of a true auction house, Amdocs employees across the UK placed bids for IT equipment generously donated by Amdocs IT, raising £7,080.
"Last Hour 2010" – To mark the financial year end, employees kindly elected to donate from salary their last hours pay– a true “Joy of Giving” experience.
"Around the World Lunch" – 4th August 2010: London Fetter Lane Board Room transformed into the ultimate World-Wide cuisine arena, Amdocs Divisions participated bringing dishes from around the world and employees enjoyed a magnificent luncheon, raising £532.
"The Amdocs Iron Man 2010" - Charlie Wakefield successfully completed the gruelling challenges in Zurich for our charity partner, NSPCC
April 2010, seven employees completed the famous London Marathon running past famous landmarks, bridges and the streets of London covering over 26 miles raising a staggering £19,671!!!

These are just a few of the fund raising events that the Amdocs UK Community Initiative completed this year.
Amdocs UK Community Initiative is proud to have sponsored Amdocs employee and Amdocs employee group fund raising events that have included “Sense”, a charity providing valuable support to deaf blind people of all ages as well as the Macmillan Coffee Morning fund raising event just to name a few.

In addition to fund raising, Amdocs UK has actively promoted the work of the NCPCC through sponsoring national workshops, promoting volunteering opportunities, providing access to NSPCC material and working towards “Cruelty to children must stop. FULL STOP”