GearsCRM has been a fully-remote company since we were founded in 2009, with all of our employees working from home. We’ve always leveraged our internal communication channels to share ways to give back to our local communities and support the charities near to our employees’ hearts.
We officially joined the 1% Pledge movement in 2020. We were grateful to be in a position to be able to give back at a time where so many charitable organizations needed support. We have a dedicated Slack channel where our employees can post about charities they support, and offer ways to donate time or money, and Gears matches employee donations.
Over the years, Gears has informally adopted the Budsies Pals Program as our official charity. Each year, Budsies Pals works with children’s hospitals to bring the magic of comforting stuffed animals to kids who are in need of comfort and happiness. In fact, Budsies created our official Gears Mascot, Geary.
At the corporate level, Gears signed up as a sponsor and we’ve been partnering with Budsies Pals ever since, sponsoring 50 children at three different hospitals each year. Taking it even further, our employees have stepped up to sponsor children personally, and we hold contests and raffles in support of Budsies to further our contributions.
