At Boldr, impact isn’t something that sits separately from the work we do. As a certified B Corp, we’ve built it into how we think about our business: creating value for our clients, careers for our team members, and opportunities in the communities where we live and work.
Why we do Community Impact
In practice, our community impact work runs along two tracks. The first is team-led. Boldranians choose the causes they care about and we give them the time, the structure, and the resources to act on them, whether that is the Boldr Challenge Global Month of Volunteering, a donation match on every hour logged, or recognition for the people who showed up.
The second track is institutional and long term. Rather than spreading one-off donations thinly, we build multi-year relationships with a small number of local organisations: Streetlight Philippines, which has been part of our community work in Tacloban since 2017, and A Million Voices, whose scholars we have supported for nearly a decade.
A lot of that work sits in education, and that is deliberate. The organizations we partner with, including Streetlight, A Million Voices, Good Neighbors Philippines, and JCI Binangonan, work on the practical barriers that keep young people out of school or make it harder to stay: school supplies and transport costs, safe classrooms, mentoring, and the encouragement to keep going.
Those barriers are familiar to us, because they are the same ones many Boldranians navigated on their way to the careers they have now. The stories that follow cover one quarter, from April to June 2026. Long-term partnerships and a team empowered to act locally are what turn individual quarters into something that compounds.
Boldranians in Action: Giving Back Across Our Communities
This quarter, the Boldr Challenge Global Month of Volunteering gave Boldranians across our offices a great reason to step away from the usual workday and spend some time supporting their local communities.
The challenge was built around individual, employee-led volunteering, which meant team members could choose the causes that mattered most to them. Across our communities, Boldranians got involved in education and youth development, community outreach, environmental initiatives, animal welfare, and more.
That included everything from distributing school supplies to supporting community programs and grassroots initiatives. Volunteer hours were logged through a tracking system so we could measure participation and, more importantly, properly recognize the time our team members chose to give.
To turn that individual volunteering into additional support for local organizations, every volunteer hour logged also triggered a $1 donation match from Boldr, up to $1,500 per country.
At the end of the challenge, we also recognized the Most Meaningful Stories, Highest Volunteer Hours, and Impact Award, celebrating the Boldranians and teams who made an especially meaningful contribution throughout the month.
Celebrating AMV Philippines Scholars’ Milestones
A Million Voices (AMV) is a nonprofit that supports children and young people through programs focused on education, health, and livelihood.
Their scholarship program supports students through their education, providing practical needs like school supplies and transportation alongside mentoring and other resources that help them stay in school and continue their studies.
Boldr has partnered with AMV for nearly a decade, supporting its scholars as they’ve progressed through school and, for some, into higher education. Ahead of Q2, we learned that many of the students we’ve supported over the years had either graduated or were getting ready to.
The last dedicated program we held for AMV graduates was in 2022, so we wanted to properly celebrate the 2024–2025 graduating class and how far they’d come.
Together with AMV Philippines, we gave each graduate a PHP 5,000 Grab voucher for rides, meals, and more. There was a reason behind the choice: the students told us that what they treasure most are experiences they can enjoy and share with their families, so we wanted the gift to give them a chance to celebrate with the people who had supported them along the way.
It’s a small gesture for a very significant achievement, and one that celebrates more than graduation day itself; it recognizes the years of work, the journey to get there, and the families who were part of it.
81 Hours of Community Service for Streetlight Summer Camp
Streetlight Philippines has been part of Boldr’s community work in Tacloban since 2017.
The nonprofit supports children, young people, and families through education, social welfare, skills development, and safe community spaces. And because Tacloban is also home to one of our offices and many Boldranians, this is a partnership that quite literally sits close to home.
Our work with Streetlight isn’t built around a single event or donation. It’s a long-term partnership, and this summer gave our team another opportunity to get involved.
One of Streetlight’s initiatives is its annual Summer Camp, which gives children and young people a four-week program of activities during their school break. For the 2026 camp, 13 Boldranians volunteered a combined 81 hours.
They facilitated group games and team-building activities, helped students throughout the sessions, encouraged participation and teamwork, and helped create a safe, inclusive environment where the children could enjoy themselves.
Eighty-one hours is a lot of time to give, and we’re grateful to every Boldranian who spent some of theirs making this year’s summer camp a memorable one.
Turning Client Connections into Community Impact
Sometimes, a new business connection can do more than create a new business opportunity.
Through Boldr’s Client Referral Program, when an existing connection refers new business to us, we make a community donation on behalf of the company that made the referral.
Last quarter, one of those referrals opened the door to a new opportunity for Boldr. In return, we made an additional donation to Streetlight Philippines on behalf of the referring company. That contribution comes on top of the monthly support we already provide to Streetlight as part of our ongoing partnership.
It’s a relatively simple idea behind the program: when the relationships we build through our work lead to new opportunities for Boldr, we can use some of that momentum to support the communities around us, too.
Building Stronger Communities on National Youth Day
In June, our Cape Town team joined Bonteheuwel United A.F.C. to celebrate National Youth Day.
Boldr sponsored sound equipment and food worth R4,182 to help create a welcoming event for the young people attending. Randal Arendse, a former Boldr team member and Bonteheuwel United A.F.C. member, also volunteered his time to prepare the shared meal.
But the day wasn’t only about food and activities. Local law enforcement spoke with the kids about making responsible choices and the role everyone can play in creating safer communities.
The event gave young people a safe place to showcase their sporting talents, take part in activities, spend time together, and hear encouraging messages from community leaders and positive role models.
Back-to-School Initiatives
A new school year comes with a surprisingly long list of things students need before learning can even begin: safe classrooms, bags, notebooks, shoes, and plenty more.
This quarter, several of our community initiatives focused on helping students and learning spaces get ready for the year ahead.
Building Better Learning Spaces with Good Neighbors Philippines
On June 6, Boldr joined Good Neighbors Philippines for Brigada Eskwela 2026. The organization works with communities across the Philippines to support children and families through education, child protection, health, economic development, and other community-led programs.
This specific initiative focused on getting learning spaces ready for the upcoming school year. The work focused on two Child Development Centers in Sitio Bakal and Sitio Ibayo, where volunteers and partners came together to clean, repair, improve, and brighten the daycare facilities.
Dexter Martinez from our Office Operations team represented Boldr on the ground, volunteering during the initiative and helping gather the materials needed for the work. Boldr also contributed PHP 25,000 toward cleaning, painting, construction, gutter repair, and gardening materials.
The result was straightforward but important: safer, cleaner, and more welcoming spaces for children to learn in when they returned for the new school year.
Bags to School: Equipping Students for a Brighter School Year
Getting ready for school is considerably harder when you don’t have the basics to take with you.
As part of our work supporting education in underserved communities, Boldr supported a former team member and JCI Binangonan with a Bags to School initiative for students preparing for the upcoming school year.
The project provided 100 students with school bags and basic learning materials. Three Boldr volunteers also joined the activities, spending time with the children and helping them practice writing and drawing.
The bags and supplies gave students practical resources they could take into the new school year. Having our volunteers there also meant the day could be about more than handing things out: it gave our team members a chance to spend time with the kids and take part in the experience themselves.
School Supplies Distribution with Streetlight Philippines
The Summer Camp wasn't our only opportunity to support Streetlight this quarter. On June 1, Boldranians also joined the organization's school supplies distribution in Tacloban.
Team members were invited to volunteer as students received some of the essentials they needed for the school year, including backpacks, shoes, notebooks, and other school supplies.
Streetlight Partner Relations Officer Devina Dalagan shared that seeing the students’ smiles as they received their supplies made the day especially fulfilling.
For us, that kind of hands-on involvement is an important part of the partnership. Alongside our continued support for Streetlight, we want to create more opportunities for Boldranians to show up, give their time, and be part of the communities we call home.
