“I wanted to help parents entertain and educate their kids for a few minutes while they take a breather,” says Charlotte Camacho, a growth product manager at Dropbox. The virtual read alouds also serve as a resource for pre K-5th grade students as they learn story frameworks, language patterns, and vocabulary from listening and watching our verbal cues. This, of course, is harder to do when we can't leave our homes, so sharing a career video was a great chance to give something back while still keeping everyone safe.” “So I've been looking for ways to actively help others.

“In general I feel that I'm one of the fortunate ones in this crisis in that I'm still able to work and my family is healthy,” says Tim Regan, chief accounting officer at Dropbox. This year, we’ve gone virtual and Dropbox employees have shared videos of their career journeys in finance, analytics, and technical program management, to name a few. Generally in the spring we host field trips and job shadow days for our partner schools to help students explore opportunities in tech.

Our Schoolsĭropbox partners with three public schools in the Bay Area Skyline High in Oakland, and Mission High and Bret Harte Elementary in San Francisco.

We’ve been asking ourselves during this difficult time, how do we continue to foster our relationship with our Dropbox community and Foundation partners? Over the last few months, Dropbox employees across our global offices have shown increased desire to participate in virtual volunteering projects such as career exploration videos, virtual read alouds and panels, recruiting efforts, and helping small businesses and nonprofits navigate new challenges. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has presented an array of new challenges for how we work, but it’s also changed the dynamics for how we create and maintain a sense of community.

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