Comalatech’s Annual Tradition: Giving Back to the Community

[Pledge 1]

The holiday season brings with it the season of giving, and at Comalatech that means fondly remembering the opportunities we've had to give back to our communities. We are ardent believers that our success as a team comes with an obligation to return some of that good fortune to the places we call home. We are all so proud to share the various ways we've supported charities and non-profit organizations this year, including an update on our "Pledge 1%" promise we made last year. 

 

Spreading Joy Worldwide

Since 2008 Comalatech has been fortunate enough to contribute over $130,000 to a variety of local and international charities. This year, as a part of our Pledge 1% initiative, we expanded our efforts to include more charities, in more countries, than we’ve ever been able to help before.

We chose seven Canadian charities to support, including the Crisis Centre of BC, David Suzuki Foundation, Union Gospel Mission, Sierra Club of BC, RAVEN Trust, Greater Vancouver Foodbank, and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. In Spain we are proud to have donated to the Fundación Nido, Fundación Masnatur, Sant Joan de Deu Hospital, Asociación Navarra de Autismo,  and Fundación Barraquer. Somewhere on the coast of Australia there are 40 turtle hatchlings that will be protected thanks to our sponsorship of the Queensland Trust for Nature. And we are also contributors to charities active around the globe, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International. and Proactiva Open Arms.

All told we contributed to sixteen different charities in 2016, and that doesn’t include the free product licenses we provided to more than 140 non-profit organizations, bringing our active total to over 600. The entire Comalatech team is pleased to have helped so many people, but we’re not done yet.

 

100% Committed to Pledge 1%

At the end of 2015, Comalatech followed the lead of tech companies like Atlassian, Salesforce, and CA Technologies to make a vow regarding our corporate giving – we committed ourselves to Pledge 1%. For our objective we chose to pledge 1% of our profits to charity, and we’re proud to report that we met and actually exceeded the 1% mark in 2016! We are such big believers in this movement that we are once again publicly committing to Pledge 1% in 2017, and we would encourage other business in our space to do the same.

Our CEO, Roberto Dominguez, is a proponent of corporate responsibility and he feels strongly about the vision of Pledge 1%.

We’ve been committed to corporate giving since the day Comalatech opened its doors. When I saw the organizations that were the driving force behind Pledge 1% I got excited about the possibilities of the movement. It’s been very gratifying to see other like-minded businesses in the tech space take part, and I have no doubt that even more will join us in 2017.

As 2016 draws to a close we are simultaneously proud of how we’ve helped our communities, and also aware that there’s still more to be done. 2017 will bring more milestones for Comalatech, including our 10 year anniversary, but our commitment to Pledge 1% will always be one of our highest priorities.

Originally posted: November 29, 2016