Network provider Boingo Wireless has a charitable initiative called Boingo Cares that focuses on several causes including breast cancer awareness, support for troops and veterans and helping at-risk youth.
Boingo is a lead sponsor of San Bernardino, Calif.-based Exceeding Expectations, which uses triathlons as a mechanism to engage at risk youth. According to the organization, “The goal is not to develop the kids into elite athletes, but rather to offer them opportunities to participate in a lifestyle that is healthy, goal-oriented and very unlike that which they experience in their everyday lives. We strive to replace negative influences with positive role models and to instill in the kids a powerful new discipline of setting measurable goals and working hard to achieve them.”
In addition, “Boingo raises funds for Los Angeles’ annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event,” Senior Manager of Public Relations Melody Walker said in an email. “The walk honors breast cancer survivors and raises awareness about steps we can take to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer.”
During the holiday season, Boingo gives to Operation Gratitude, which to date has sent more than 1.8 million care packages  “filled with food, entertainment, hygiene, and handmade items, plus personal letters of appreciation to veterans, first responders, new recruits,  wounded heroes, their care givers, and to individually named U.S. service members deployed overseas and their families waiting at home,” according to the organization.
“This cause is particularly special,” Walker said, “as it ties back to the Boingo Broadband business, which is a Wi-Fi and IPTV service custom-tailored for military troops.” The company provides Wi-Fi and IPTV to 324,000 beds on 60 military installations. While largely associated with airport Wi-Fi, in Q2 this year the bulk of company revenue came from distributed antenna systems, which was up 35% year-over-year, hitting $18.6 million.
