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TAKE PLANET-POSITIVE ACTION WITH BOX

April 18th 2022 | Corrie Conrad, VP Communities and Impact, Executive Director
of Box.org
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Did you know that using Box can help you and your organization take
planet-positive action? This Earth Day, we want to highlight a few of the ways
that our customers are finding the Box Content Cloud helps them with their
environmental sustainability goals, and share a few recent actions we’ve taken
that we’re excited about, too. Let’s start with a customer story.

charity: water has been a Box customer for almost 10 years, and we’ve grown a
lot together over the years. This impactful nonprofit receives our Box.org
discount (learn more about that program here) and works to help bring safe and
clean water to every person on the planet. That’s no small task. With 771
Million people on earth lacking access to clean water and millions more with
clean water supplies at risk due to rising sea-levels due to the impacts of
climate change, charity: water is on the frontlines raising awareness and funds
to support tens of thousands of water projects in 29 countries around the world.

charity: water uses Box for digital asset management — storing photos, videos,
and partner stories to run the campaigns and marketing efforts that help raise
the funds for their life saving work. With many different implementation
partners and funders, they need secure external collaboration to share program
content and provide grant management throughout the grant lifecycle. Box and its
seamless integrations with Salesforce and other applications make that possible
for them. They need a single repository for content for all their employees and
the ability to access it from anywhere. Box powers charity: water’sfull content
cloud.

On Earth Day, however, it’s worth sharing a bit more on how Box helps
organizations do their part to reduce emissions. Because Box powers access to
all of their content in the cloud, charity: water was able to get rid of on
premise servers. No more energy-intensive onsite hot closets. Box’s data centers
are powered by 100% renewable energy, and our partner infrastructure matches
their energy use with 100% renewable energy. This is planet-positive progress.
During the pandemic, charity: water was able to transition to fully remote,
powered by Box. It’s worked so well for them they’ve decided to continue as a
fully remote organization, no longer needing their office space either. With
fewer employees commuting and traveling, they expect this is reducing the
overall carbon footprint of their employees, as well. One final example is with
e-signature and contract management as their standard human resources
provisioning process happens with Box Relay and Box Sign and allows this to all
be done without paper, thereby saving trees. Trees capture carbon and capturing
carbon helps decrease the rate of climate change. So, whether it’s reducing
energy consumption from non-renewable sources, decreasing employee travel and
office emissions, decreasing paper usage and saving the trees, or all of the
above, Box can play an important role in your organization’s sustainability
journey. With customers increasingly asking what going with Box means for their
company’s ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) goals, we’re eager to share
examples like this and learn from you, and discuss how we can best support your
environmental sustainability goals.

We’re working to make progress in our own direct ESG journey, too. In March, we
published our first ESG Framework and, based on a materiality assessment we
conducted last year, agreed that Energy & Climate is our focus within the “E”.
Next, we aim to better understand our emissions baseline and then set
science-based targets for improvement. We’re excited to welcome Aimée
Christensen to our Box.org Advisory Council this year, as she brings deep
expertise in climate and environmental sustainability.

Finally, we’re grateful to also support another customer of ours, The Nature
Conservancy - a nonprofit committed to conserving the lands and water of which
all life depends, with a $50,000 grant towards a digital transformation pilot
project they’re pursing in Maui to use catalogued data sources and rapid AI and
software prototyping to develop a new, efficient way of identifying locations of
current and potential invasive species spread. We’ve also partnered with them in
support of their Plant a Billion trees initiative to plant thousands of trees
this year in honor of some of our Boxers and customers (if you attended the
Content Cloud Summit last week, a tree is being planted for you!).

Happy Earth Day!

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