Cleaning Up Stuttgart’s Forest Trails
By Laura Anderson, originally published on the K15t Sotfware blog. Trash belongs in garbage bins – a statement we probably all agree on. Sadly, beautiful places, such as forest trails, meant for every...
Blog Articles
Pledge 1% Boston Member Spotlight: Door of Clubs
By Dan McConvey, Development and Partnerships Associate, The Boston Foundation. Originally shared on The Boston Foundation’s blog. Pranam Lipinski was born and raised in the Berkshires of Western Mass...
3 Reasons Every Business Should Prioritize Giving Back
By Anna Hendry, originally posted on Inside the Salesforce Ecosystem. “The business of business is improving the state of the world.” These words from CEO Marc Benioff serve as the guiding principle f...
Data Philanthropy – How John Snow Labs Pledges 1%
An interview with Ida Lucente of John Snow Labs. Data is a commodity. The data collected by pharmaceutical companies from drug testing, retailers from shoppers, telephone carriers from mobile devices ...
So We Pledged 1%. Now What?
By Sean Dukes, Owner and CEO of Learnsmarter. Originally published on Medium. The first time I heard about 1:1:1, the Salesforce philanthropy model, was at Dreamforce Europe 2008. Back then, Salesforc...
Pledge 1% Boston Member Spotlight: Cuseum
Originally published by Tim Smith, Director of Innovation Partnerships and Pledge 1% Boston on the Boston Foundation blog. Brendan Ciecko is the founder of Cuseum, and a proud early member of Pledge 1...
Introducing the all new Yoobi Backpack Bundle
Originally published by Julia Frers-Karno, March 28, 2017 on the Yoobi for Business blog. School Supply drives are growing more and more popular each year, they are such an incredible way to support k...
Atlassian founders plant seeds of expanding culture of giving
Originally published in The Australian. When Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar was in his 20s, he and his girlfriend made a four-hour trip from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to visit a school. Farquha...
The 50 Best Workplaces for Giving Back
To read the original article, visit Fortune Magazine. Photo credit: Duy Ho Photography. It might be common for corporations to make charitable donations. But a few companies go above and beyond with t...
Join RFPIO and Oregon Food Bank in the ROI of Compassion
Originally published on the RFPIO blog. There’s no better way to ring in the new year than by inspiring others to give. As a local company, RFPIO understands the importance of community. Now they are ...
FinancialForce Celebrates Giving 1% of Time with FinancialForce4Good
By Tommy Jarvis, FinancialForce4Good Council Chair Here at FinancialForce, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the closing of our 2016 volunteerism efforts than to announce our formal commitmen...
Small But Mighty: A Case for CSR at Small Businesses
By Marisa Lopez, Presence PG. This post was originally published on Medium. We like to think everyone wants to make positive changes in the world. But where do you start? Corporate Social Responsibili...
Vlocity and Salesforce Help Refugees Find H.O.M.E.
By Dan Israel, Vice President and General Manager, Vlocity This is a time of year when many around the world reflect on giving back to those less fortunate. This year, Vlocity is honored to reflect wi...
Creating “Change” with Jason Grad, Bstow
Bstow is a tech company with social impact at its very core. Jason Grad, CEO and Co-Founder, shares what it means to join a global movement of companies that have pledged 1%. Tell me about Bstow. Bsto...
So you joined Pledge 1%, now what? A guide to implementing the program at work
By Okta. More and more companies today are embarking on an important journey of corporate social responsibility programs and joining the Pledge 1% movement. Okta announced our program, Okta for Good, ...
Fireside Chat with Richard Eib of Careers In Salesforce
Careers In Salesforce is a market leading job site that connects employers seeking Salesforce talent, with candidates who are looking for their next career move. We recently caught up with their Found...
From “Greed is Good” to “Greed for Good”
By Philipp Stauffer, Co-Founder and Managing Director, FYRFLY Venture Partners If you haven’t seen Gordon Gekko say “Greed is Good,” then go watch his speech in the movie Wall Street, released in 1987...
We’re here to impact the world for the better – whether digitally or locally
By Nithya Das, SVP, General Counsel, AppNexus One of AppNexus’ core company values is to see and improve the whole system – whether that system means the internet, our technology or initiatives in our...
Why Accomplice Joined Pledge 1% to Give 1% of Their Carry
When Accomplice CEO Jeff Fagnan pledged one percent of his company’s carry to the long-term benefit of two Boston-based nonprofits – InnerCity Weightlifting and Resilient Coders, he described the move...
cPrime Excited to Continue Participation of #PledgeItForward campaign
By Zubin Irani, CEO, cPrime cPrime is happy to be members of the Pledge 1% #PledgeItForward campaign. Mandating 1% of employee time to charitable causes is a social initiative that we’ve been contribu...
Philanthropy & Culture: Lurniture's 1% Pledge to the Upside Foundation
By David Bloom. This piece was originally published on the Lurniture blog. Your last name does not need to be Gates, Buffett or Zuckerberg for you to be a philanthropist. Philanthropy is simply donati...
Revolar Partners with National Domestic Violence Hotline to Educate Consumers
RevolarⓇ, makers of a discreet, wearable safety device, announced in October a partnership with the National Domestic Violence Hotline (The Hotline) to educate consumers about intimate partner violenc...
Passion, leadership, and service, how we mentor the next generation
By Michael McNeil, Partner and General Manager, Oasis Digital When we started our high school summer internship program in 2011, we had two simple goals. We felt we could simultaneously provide great ...
How Pledge 1% helped Twilio ensure social impact was deeply integrated into the company
By Erin Reilly, Executive Director of Twilio.org A lot of people think about social impact initiatives as purely philanthropic, a side project a company takes on to give back, something that is separa...
Entrepreneurs can give back, by giving early to Pledge 1%
By Seth Levine, Managing Director, Foundry Group At Foundry Group, an investment firm in early-stage technology firms, we believe we all benefit when everyone succeeds. That’s why every time we succee...
Paul English Joins Pledge 1% Boston with 10%+ of Stake in Lola Travel
Paul English, CEO and Co-Founder of Lola Travel and former CTO and Co-Founder of Kayak, has announced his commitment of at least 10% of his stake in Lola being set aside for giving back to communities...
Giving Back to the Community: Addteq's Story
Addteq was proud to take the pledge a year ago. Since then, Addteq has founded the Iris Foundation. The Iris Foundation was created in an attempt to build philanthropy awareness within the IT industry...
How eCore works as a team to give back locally and globally
By Allison Riggs, Global Marketing Manager at e-Core. Originally published on the Atlassian blog as part of their #TeamUp4Good series. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Ghandi When the c...
Pledge 1% Boston & Life Science Cares Team Up on New Partnership
Pledge 1% Boston, spearheaded by the Boston Foundation and a network of community leaders, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Life Science Cares. Since launching two months ago, Pledge 1% B...
How the Salesforce Foundation & Room to Read Work Together to Support Communities in Cambodia
Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of Salesforce, is one of Pledge 1%'s founding partners. Over the years, their 1% commitment to charity has grown and they have been--and continue to be--a key par...
