This story is part of Pledge 1%’s Impact Award Winner feature series. Learn more about the Cloud 100 List and other Pledge 1% members that were featured on the list here.
Why did you first decide to join Pledge 1%?
Social impact at Procore first started happening through employee-led initiatives to create volunteer events and one-off product donations to educators that were referred to us by our customers. This culminated in Procore.org being formalized as the social impact arm of Procore in 2017, with a mission to advance the construction industry through advocacy, education, and technology.
Once we formalized with a dedicated team, we went through a benchmarking exercise with other organizations to help us get started. Throughout these conversations, rave reviews about Pledge 1% came up repeatedly. Pledge 1% has helped us maximize our impact on the communities we serve, providing invaluable learning experiences and networking opportunities from the first connection until today.
What does your Pledge 1% program look like in action? What does your program involve?
We’ve formally pledged to give 1% of our time via employee volunteerism, as well as donate 1% of our construction management software to nonprofit builders, educational institutions, and training centers.
Procore has various impact initiatives. Some of our programs involve:
Product Donations
Over 800 nonprofit builders, educational institutions, and trade association training and apprenticeship centers in 21 countries have in-kind donated access to Procore with unlimited users, data storage, and support.
Education
We provide product, training, and certifications to over 30,000 students in 10 countries. In fact, 96% of accredited construction management university programs in the US now have access to Procore through Procore.org.
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Nonprofits
Procore.org provides in-kind donations to over 320 nonprofits dedicated to building for communities in need and rebuilding for those impacted by disaster. Nonprofit & NGO users leverage Procore to optimize efficiencies and make a difference where staff is spread thin and resources are limited in low-income housing projects, disaster response, religious institutions, and more.
Advocacy
In 2021, Procore.org began providing free product training and a discounted buying program to better partner with minority contractors to support and amplify the impactful work they’re already doing. By the end of the year, over 100 minority contractors had received free training on Procore.
We focused our advocacy efforts on taking action to increase the number of minority contractors and leaders in construction. We accepted AGC’s Education Research Foundation’s challenge to create a $250,000 donation gift to assist African American and disadvantaged minority students who are studying construction fields at historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs.
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Procore Cares: Employee Volunteering
All Procore employees globally are encouraged to volunteer and give back to their local communities, with 16 hours of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) annually. All employee-led volunteering, donations, and other social giving opportunities are accessed through giving and volunteering platform Benevity.
Procore was the Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award Winner in 2019. We offered a $50 donation for every demo of our product–a program that helped raise over $30K for Team Rubicon to support relief efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Dorian.
How has Pledge 1%’s framework helped you scale your impact?
Since winning the award, the COVID-19 pandemic made us reimagine how we would run our programs. However, because of our partnership with Pledge 1% and Builders, we were able to learn from each other and adapt quickly to implement Benevity to scale our global employee volunteer efforts, build virtual classroom curriculum for instructors to use with students learning remotely, create our first large scale donation through the AGC ERF HBCU Matching Scholarship Fund, and start our program to support underrepresented groups in construction.
Has your Pledge 1% program changed since winning the Pledge 1% Impact Award?
We have not pledged equity or profit, however we have made a donation of $250K with AGC Education Foundation for HBCU students in construction management programs. We challenged AGC members – and the industry at large – to match our donation in order to double our impact, and we achieved our collection action goal of $500K within 4 months.
In addition, we implemented the use of Benevity so that our employees can give directly to the nonprofit causes they care about.
We also have invested in resources and new nonprofit partnerships that directly help our industry with a prevailing challenge, the labor shortage. Procore.org cares about the labor shortage in construction and the industry’s workforce development because Procore is built solely for the construction industry, and these are major top-of-mind challenges that the industry faces. Our new Workforce Development web page is a hub for construction professionals, educators, students and parents to access Procore’s workforce development resources and content in one place. In addition, we started a partnership with the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) as a founding member of CareerStarter, a new tool powered by NCCER’s Build Your Future (BYF) initiative that provides career-seeking individuals direct connections with local training programs and entry-level jobs.
What have been some of the greatest highlights or impact moments to date?
Awards:
- AGC & Procore Meet Initial Goal of Raising $500,000 To Launch a New Scholarship for Minority Student...
- Launching New Workforce Development Resources to Combat the Construction Labor Shortage
- Featured Company in National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) 2021 Report to President
- Procore’s commitment to customers in response to COVID-19
- Procore Promotes Construction Safety With Third Annual Procore Safety Qualified Program
- Procore.org Provides Construction Software to Habitat for Humanity
