Author: Godwill

Piedmont Global is thrilled to announce the launch of our annual Action Week, a time when we turn our core values into tangible community action. This year, the initiative is being powerfully led by our Nairobi team, marking a significant step in localizing the Piedmont Global Cares Foundation and strengthening our identity as a truly unified, global family. 

The week commenced with an inspiring outreach event that perfectly captures our mission in motion. 

A Journey of Compassion to Namanga 

Demonstrating incredible dedication, members of the Nairobi team devoted their public holiday on Friday, October 10 to travel for several hours to the Namanga Islamic Center, a boys’ orphanage near the Kenya-Tanzania border. Their journey was fueled by a desire to make a direct, local impact. 

The team delivered essential clothing, games, and gifts, all procured through their own fundraising efforts. To amplify this grassroots support, the Piedmont Global Cares Foundation bolstered their initiative with a grant of $1,500 to further the orphanage’s vital work. 

A Day of Shared Purpose and Lasting Impact 

This outreach was thoughtfully designed with a dual purpose, creating a ripple effect of positivity. 

For the children of Namanga, the goal was to provide a day filled with joy, affirmation, and positive engagement. It was about more than material donations; it was about creating a memorable experience where every child felt seen, valued, and cared for. 

For our Piedmont Global community, the day was a living embodiment of our foundational values: Community, Responsibility, and Impact. It offered our team a powerful, hands-on opportunity to live these principles, strengthening their bonds and reinforcing the profound satisfaction that comes from shared purpose. 

The Nairobi team has set a remarkable standard for Action Week. Their initiative is a testament to the universal resonance of our values and serves as an inspiring call to action for our entire global collective. They have beautifully shown how local dedication can create a meaningful international impact. 

At Piedmont Global, we believe in the power of community, both within our global team and in our commitment to making a positive impact in the world. That’s why we were so proud to lace up our running shoes and join the Iraqi Children Foundation (ICF) for their annual 5K event on September 6th. 

Held at Rock Creek National Park in Washington, DC, with a virtual participation option, this year’s ICF 5K was a record-breaking success. We are thrilled that Team Piedmont Global was part of an event that drew 519 participants globally, achieving the highest participation and fundraising results in its history! 

We are especially proud of our own team’s outstanding performance. In our first time participating as a team, we secured 2nd place on the official leaderboard, a fantastic achievement that reflects our collective drive and spirit. 

Our global participation was truly inspiring: 

• 36 team members participated worldwide. 

• 12 colleagues joined the in-person event in Virginia, USA. 

• 24 team members participated virtually from across the globe. 

The Piedmont Global bond knows no borders! Our virtual participants represented four countries and numerous cities. In a wonderful display of camaraderie, 14 of our team members in Nairobi, Kenya, gathered in person to walk and run together at Karura Forest, showcasing our unified commitment. 

But this event was about so much more than just a race. Our collective strides translated into direct support for a vital cause. Piedmont Global donated $895 in race registration fees directly to ICF. Even more inspiring, as our team members learned more about ICF’s critical work, several made additional personal donations, further amplifying our impact. 

The funds raised through events like this provide essential services like; food, tutoring, and legal protection for orphans and street children in Iraq, offering them hope and a brighter future. 

We are incredibly proud of our team for their energy, generosity, and dedication to make a global impact. Together, we didn’t just run a race; we took a meaningful stride for hope. 

To learn more about the inspiring work of the Iraqi Children Foundation, visit their website at www.iraqichildren.org. 

While many of the cultures our global team represents are accustomed to helping others, at times we go about helping differently. This is due our varied backgrounds and life experiences. Honoring these differences, we offer multiple ways to participate through Piedmont Global Cares, as we believe that there is no one right to serve others.

As we build a long-term culture of philanthropy and seek to unite global employees in efforts for social good, we’ve outlined a simple guide to help our team prepare for new experiences. Here are the principles we outline for staff as they prepare to serve others in new ways.

 

Acknowledge and respect personal limits

We celebrate transformative volunteerism, not performative. Our hope is that communities are transformed just as our team members’ lives are inspired by serving. And as we desire that volunteering be an authentic engagement, we openly declare that it’s ok to have limits. What is meaningful and comfortable to one team member may not be for another. Sometimes, there are wounds from the past that don’t let us engage with emotional or mental safety in an activity now. We hold space for those realities and tensions. We respect individuals’ choices about if and how to engage in activities.

 

Reflect on your reasons for volunteering

We encourage team members to prepare for experiences by checking their own motives for engagement.

 

Why are you volunteering?

Are you animated by a desire to give back and a curiosity for learning about others’ experiences? Or are you participating out of a sense of obligation or corporate expectation? We applaud the former and try to remove any pressure for the latter. The philanthropic culture we seek to build—of genuine care and concern for others—encourages genuine, self-directed engagement.

 

Stay mission-focused when volunteering feels challenging

One barrier we’ve heard to volunteering is the vulnerability of unfamiliar experiences. Some team members have transparently shared they feel ill equipped to face new, hard realities for the first time. These concerns are valid, and we emphasize that discomfort is a natural part of growth.

 

Service over discomfort

We encourage our team that when volunteering, the best strategy to manage discomfort in the moment is to stay focused on the mission. Whether the mission is to package food for insecure households, teach new skills to new neighbors, or hand out meals and supplies to those experiencing homelessness—whatever the mission, focus on it over self. Service comes first knowing there is a space for honest emotions right after.

 

Reflect and learn from volunteer experiences

Whether it’s a positive, uplifting experience or a humbling, challenging one, we encourage team members to reflect and process what they lived and what they have learned or how they have been impacted.

 

Growth through reflection

For some, this might mean celebrating a service goal exceeded as a volunteer team. For others, it might be to acknowledge a tie to a painful moment in the past or a sobering new reality in the present. Our philanthropic commitment is human first, always—which also applies to team members’ volunteer experiences. Our corporate culture of learning and improvement encourages us to reflect deeply toward growth in everything we do.

 

Let volunteering expand your capacity to serve

We view volunteering as an opportunity to foster individual and team growth. We grow as individuals and as a collective when we live and reflect on experiences rooted in humanity and community—especially in a business such as ours. Therefore, in preparing our team for new experiences, we encourage them from the beginning to allow the experience to change them.

 

Pushing the boundaries of what is possible

Through volunteering, we hope our team gains a greater understanding of a people group or a new personal commitment to participate in social change. Our hope is that our teams’ capacity to show up for each other, for clients, and for our local and global communities expands as a result of volunteering. Limits are removed and together, we push the boundaries of what is possible.

 

Building a global culture of social impact

Volunteerism is not just about giving back; it’s about growing as individuals and as a team. At Piedmont Global, we believe in the power of service to foster connection, learning and transformation. By equipping our global team with the right tools and mindset, we aim to create lasting social impact—together.

At Piedmont Global, we believe business is a powerful force for global good, a belief that shapes everything we do.

• We center humanity in all we do.
• We believe deeply in giving back
• We value respect, responsibility, and results.

As we look back at three quarters of record-breaking progress, double down to finish 2024 stronger than ever, and take a pause to imagine what’s in store in 2025, now’s the perfect time to state anew what anchors and guides us.

At Piedmont Global, we believe business can achieve global good, a belief that shapes everything we do
Piedmont Global proudly advances equity, economic development, and safety through our service offerings. Our global language and consultative business lines enable diverse communities across the globe to access much-needed support, build lives and livelihoods, and secure nations and localities. It’s a mission our team champions and feels great advancing.

As a minority-owned and privately held company, we are inspired by the global-local vision of our CEO, Mohamed Hussein. Mohamed leads with a deep understanding of the cultural and economic significance of diverse regions, reminding us just how similar, interdependent, and interconnected we all are no matter where we reside. As a transnational workforce, we can’t help but think of and stand with our collaborators around the world to advance the global missions of our clients and partners.

 

Humanity is centered in all we do

Born from the niche of language services, Piedmont Global’s roots are in a category that is radically morphing due to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine translation. Our sphere of business runs the risk of being heavily automated and therefore distanced from the stories, emotions, hopes, and dreams of those we ultimately serve.

Recognizing this, we are resolved to remain human-centric. We value relationships, not just algorithms, and place genuine human connection above remote-only and robots. This manifests in intentional, internal cultural investment and thoughtful, personalized client relationships. Afterall, we believe that human capital is the true wealth of all society.

 

Giving back is a value, not a performance

While business is a force for good, we believe there are ways to multiply that force and achieve even more for others. We don’t stop at a single bottom line but keep our eye on multiple outcomes we aspire to achieve. That’s why 2024 has been a year of strategically defining our commitment to philanthropy—a genuine love of humanity and desire for its welfare—and taking steps to launch an intentional, long-term philanthropic program.

Through the Piedmont Global Cares Foundation, our charitable efforts focus on providing support to immigrants and refugees, children and youth, and other marginalized communities. Whether through volunteering, grantmaking, or industry and impact partnerships with organizations that share our values, every initiative is driven by the belief that every person deserves access, opportunity, and protection. Social good is a priority success metric we will work for.

 

Respect, responsibility, and results matter

Throughout our business, human-centric relationships, and intentional giving back to strengthen and transform the communities in which we live and work, three values matter most to us at Piedmont Global.

• Respect – We treat all stakeholders with professionalism and dignity while creating space for individual and collective growth.
• Responsibility – We lead by example, weigh our actions, and take ownership and accountability for our impact on others.
• Results – We are committed to elevating and advancing the missions and interests of those we serve, helping them achieve what they set out to do.

These “three Rs” shape our interactions, influence our decisions, and determine who and what we celebrate.

As we look back to look forward, we are confident we have the right enduring foundations and are excited to continue building upon them!