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...
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...
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Ⓡ, 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...
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 ...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
Watch this video to hear why Michael Carter, co-founder at Kahuso, decided to Pledge 1%. Originally posted: November 29, 2016
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 su...
ThinkTilt is a new venture founded by three colleagues committed to making a difference in their communities. Their product ProForma is an add-on for Atlassian’s JIRA project management tool, which al...
By Jessie VanderVeen, CMO, Tempo Tempo has been a partner of Room to Read for more than six years now as part of our corporate culture of community service and philanthropic leadership to empower othe...
Joining Pledge1 has helped us to engage our employees and be more transparent in the way we give to charity – Co-founder Jimmy Lundström We want to create a workplace people are proud to work at – CEO...
By an Atlassian volunteer. I have a son and a daughter attending public school in Sydney. As an Aussie transplant having grown up in Czechoslovakia, when I moved to Australia, I wanted to learn as muc...
Pledge 1% is proud to partner with SRS Acquiom, an M&A service provider, to launch EscrowUP, a new program that creates an effortless way for the broader M&A community to give back. It’s mission: to p...
Last Thursday, the newly launched Salesforce Incubator invited member companies to come together in person to talk about how they are building Pledge 1% into the DNA of their business. During the even...
Global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am and his company i.am+ have joined the Pledge 1% movement and are #PledgingItForward in a big way with the launch of their newest product BUTTONS, premium...
This week, PandaPay, an API for charitable giving and a Pledge 1% member, is announcing the launch of Mindful Commerce, a new movement that helps companies get involved in Pledge 1% and start giving b...
With Dreamforce just around around the corner, we are proud to see Pledge 1% member Simplus leading by example and making giving back a core part of their booth activation. This will be Simplus’ first...
Last night, September 28, Pledge 1% partnered with The Boston Foundation to launch Pledge 1% Boston, a pilot regional model for the movement. The event started with resounding enthusiasm as Accomplice...
By Marc Benioff. Originally published on The Huffington Post. Every day I am reminded that we are living in the most exciting and transformative era in history. In my 35-plus years in the technology i...
By Rebecca Koenig. Originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After years of sporadic interest, technology startups are embracing the practice of setting aside company stock before initial...
By Joe Garofoli. Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Few entrepreneurs focus on charitable giving when they are building their companies — mere survival is a much bigger concern. But ...
By Carolyn Said. Originally published on SF Gate. Ever since receiving cochlear implants 15 years ago at age 12, Caroline Clark has wanted to help other hearing-impaired people. She started a foundati...
Originally published on Next in Nonprofits. Pledge 1% “is a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business. Pledge 1% encourages and challenges i...
By Ludovic Ulrich. Originally published on the Salesforce blog. Last year, Salesforce for Startups launched globally with the mission to empower startups to build, grow and give back. In that time, mo...
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