Alteryx for Good Volunteer Week 2018

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Alteryx For Good Volunteer Week

Leads us to new relationships and local initiatives

As we celebrate the spirit of National Volunteer Week with our Alteryx for Good community this April, we want to take a moment and reflect on the wonderful activities our associates and customers participated in last year and recognize the difference you’re making.

The mix of volunteering at donation centers, food banks or child centers produced more than 1,200 hours of volunteering services from our associates, almost a 50% increase from 2016! We have national and global support from our User Group Community reaching out to nonprofits and educators, spreading the word about our AFG program connecting local challenges to analytic resources. Your passion and partnership helped us provide over 2,000 licenses last year for analytic classroom efforts and initiating 100 nonprofits to start solving through analytics.

Deanna Sanchez (@Deanna), our Dallas User Group Leader and Alteryx for Good Champion 2017 introduced Alteryx to The Commit! organization. The Commit! focuses on driving student achievement “from cradle to career”, helping students stay in school and graduate.

The Dallas User Group has been assisting Commit with Alteryx implementations, workflows and apps. They were able to brainstorm workflows and apps that have become essential to the Commit’s process.

One of many accomplishments was transforming one of their laborious Excel pivot table processes into an Alteryx workflow that ran in 2 minutes!

The variety of interests are leading us to new relationships and exposing us to local initiatives that need continuous support and partnerships, enabling us to grow and evolve. We look forward to 2018 and what our AFG community can do during National Volunteer Week and beyond. We invite you to join our continuous efforts and find what you’re interested in. Grab a friend, coworker or your family for National Volunteer Week April 15-21st as we celebrate another year giving back during our national effort.

Need inspiration on types of nonprofits that might spark your interest? We've included some great examples of where our User Group teams volunteered in 2017, as well as what’s happening in April below. Visit www.volunteermatch.org to find local options you care about, create your own or join a User Group!

Here’s a recap of the volunteerism wave with our UGs and Associates of 2017:

User Group	Organization	Activity
Washington, DC	Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Garden	Planting, gardening, cleaning
Raleigh-Durham, NC	Healing Transitions	Administrative work, yard work
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX	The Commit! & Retina Foundation	Data-driven projects
Grand Rapids, MI	Kids' Food Basket	Sack Supper Food Prep
Vancouver, BC	Covenant House Vancouver	Thank-A-Thon calling to thank donors
Orange Country, CA	Second Harvest Food Bank with Irvine Associates	Packaging, sorting, food donations
Cleveland-Akron, OH	Hattie's Food Hub	Kitchen assistance with disabled adults
Orlando, FL	Give Kids the World	Serving breakfast
Richmond, VA	Maggie L. Walker Governor School	Introduce data to students
Atlanta, GA	Trees Atlanta	Plant ferns

2018 planned activities with UGs and Associates:

User Group	Organization	Activity
Dallas, TX	The Commit! Partnership	Analytical volunteering: Building an analytics app
Atlanta, GA	Trees Atlanta	Plant trees, ferns, garden revitalizing
North Jersey, NJ	Bright Beautiful Therapy Dogs	Analytical volunteering: TBD
Irvine Office	Second Harvest Food Bank	Sorting food, packaging, working through donations
Broomfield Office	Project Angel Heart	Delivery meals around the city of Denver
San Mateo	Second Harvest Food Bank	Sorting food, packaging, working through donations

 You can earn a special Alteryx Community Volunteer 2018 Badge and wear awesome Alteryx for Good t-shirts! Better than that, you’ll be able to participate in something much bigger than yourself. As Henry David Thoreau said, Be not simply good; be good for something.

Contact us at alteryxforgood@alteryx.com and we’ll send you a shirt and grant you the Community Volunteer 2018 Badge for the amazing work that you do. We welcome you to join our Alteryx for Good community and be an AFG Ambassador!

Thank you!

Your Alteryx for Good Team

Follow along on Twitter @alteryx using the hashtags #AlteryxForGood and #NVW.