{"id":1038,"date":"2012-12-24T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2012-12-14T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:20:04","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-vmware-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/one-of-my-favorite-vmware-perks\/","title":{"rendered":"one of my favorite VMware perks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of awesomeness to be had in working at VMware. \u00a0One of my favorite perks is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/foundation.html\">VMware Foundation<\/a>, which this year matches $3141.59 of charitable giving to approved organizations. \u00a0We also get 5 paid days of service learning, which we can use to volunteer time at approved charities. \u00a0(&#8220;Approved charities&#8221; essentially \u00a0means &#8220;any 501(c) organization&#8221;, so pretty much every charity is an approved charity.)<\/p>\n<p>This year, here&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve taken advantage of this perk. \u00a0I&#8217;ve volunteered for two different organizations: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakthroughsf.org\">Breakthrough San Francisco<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideo.org\/stories\/how-many-brainiacs-does-it-take-to-design-a-crap-map\">IDEO.org<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also donated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/radio\/\">KQED-FM<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsymphony.org\/Support-Volunteer.aspx\">San Francisco Symphony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainn.org\">RAINN<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/mar-monte\/\">Planned Parenthood Mar Monte<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take full advantage of my service learning hours for this year, so one of my goals for next year is to fully take advantage of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of awesomeness to be had in working at VMware. \u00a0One of my favorite perks is the VMware Foundation, which this year matches $3141.59 of charitable giving to approved organizations. \u00a0We also get 5 paid days of service learning, which we can use to volunteer time at approved charities. \u00a0(&#8220;Approved charities&#8221; essentially \u00a0means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/24\/one-of-my-favorite-vmware-perks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">one of my favorite VMware perks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}