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PLEDGE 1% IS HIRING!

Pledge 1% is hiring an Operations and Member Success Coordinator starting immediately! Full job description and details are below. To apply, email your resume with subject line “Ops & Member Success C...

Salesforce Completes its Acquisition of CloudCraze

Originally posted on Salesforce.com. Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, has completed its acquisition of CloudCraze, a leading B2B commerce platform built natively on Salesforce. Leading global com...

More good together: Box announces the Box.org fund with Tides

Originally published on the Box blog by BRYAN BRECKENRIDGE Millions of people are suffering unimaginable circumstances around the world, even in the places members of the Box ecosystem live and work. ...

Blocknubie: The First ICO To Join 1% Pledge

Originally published on Medium by Conor Nolan. In a recent conversation with a friend, I attempted to do the impossible — Explain Blockchain. So I described it through football, a medium we both under...

Pledge 1% and TechCo Team Up for CES 2018

By Conor Cawley, Tech.Co Around the holidays, charitable giving is on the rise. Whether it’s the spirit of Christmas or a recognition of cold weather making things harder for people, there’s no denyin...

PE-backed Togetherwork buys Gingr

Originally published on The PE Hub Network. Togetherwork, which is backed by Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, has acquired Boulder, Colorado-based Gingr, a provider of pet services software. No financia...

Pledge 1% are Non-Profit Partners for India Dreamin

Originally published on India Dreamin’s website by the India Dreamin team. We are thrilled to announce our non-profit partner for India Dreamin – Pledge 1%. Through this partnership, we give attendees...

Pluralsight Announces Pluralsight One, Social Impact Initiative Dedicated to Democratizing Technolog

To view original article, click here. SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Pluralsight, the enterprise technology learning platform, today announced Pluralsight One, the company’s socia...

TechCrunch joins Pledge 1% and creates a new model to “pledge it forward”

SAN FRANCISCO – September 18, 2017 – TechCrunch, a leading technology media platform, announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement to make giving...

On Philanthropy: Startups include philanthropy in their DNA

By Bruce DeBoskey. Originally published in the Chicago Tribune. Many entrepreneurs think of philanthropy as something to consider way off in the future when their businesses are mature and profitable....

Pledge 1% On the Rise: Another Tech Firm Makes Its Grantmaking Debut

By Philip Rojc. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. When Salesforce founder Marc Benioff pledged to donate 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of product and 1 percent of employee time in 1999, te...

Hurricane Harvey: How to Help

The entire Pledge 1% community stands with the families, individuals, businesses, and organizations in Texas and along the Gulf Coast that have been effected by Harvey. Only a few days after the storm...

To attract millennials, companies must give back

By Olive Keogh. Originally published in The Irish Times. When it comes to their careers, most millennials (roughly those born between 1980 and 2000) are not driven by money. They are natural job hoppe...

It Took the Pledge. Now This Tech Company Is Ramping Up Its Giving

By Philip Rojc. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. It’s nothing new to see corporate donations that complement the company’s core business and reflect its worldview. A set of grants last mon...

Salesforce Announces New AppExchange Trailblazer Score with Points for Pledge 1% Members

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Pledge 1% co-founder Salesforce.com has launched a new AppExchange Trailblazer Score to reward points to companies that are also Pledge 1% members. The new scor...

Salesforce Launches New AppExchange Partner Program, Developers and ISVs to Blaze New Trails

Originally published on PR Newswire. New business model, onboarding experience and technology tools enable ISVs to quickly build businesses for the world’s leading enterprise apps marketplace Salesfor...

Five Organizations Who Are Redefining Philanthropy

By Robert Reiss. Originally published on Forbes.com. We recently entered the 4th phase of the corporation. First, in the 1920s Alfred Sloan created the concept of the corporation with General Motors; ...

M&A Firm Looks to Bake Charity Into Corporate Mergers

By Rebecca Koening. Originally published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. With charitable set-asides becoming standard elements of initial public offerings in the tech sector, one company that provid...

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff On The Power Of Values

Originally published by Robert Safian on Fast Company. Fast Company‘s latest cover story explores the various ways values and social responsibility are having an impact at companies such as Facebook, ...

Are you proud of your company?

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, left, alongside Ivanka Trump and German chancellor Angela Merkel, met with the president to discuss workforce development and gender equality. “I made my point,” the CEO say...

Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, And The Struggle To Do The Right Thing

This piece was originally published by Robert Safian on Fast Company. When Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a nearly 5,800-word open letter on February 16—the longest single post he h...

Taking the Pledge: Inside the Next Big Wave of Tech Philanthropy

By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. The rising philanthropy of the U.S. tech sector has come in waves. In the first wave, the big winners from the early boom in computer ha...

Tech.Co Takes the Pledge and Teams Up with Pledge 1% at SXSW Startup Night

Originally published on Tech.Co. Charitable giving has become an integral part of the business world in recent years. With over two thirds of millennials preferring to work for a company that gives ba...

Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

By Ben Paynter. Originally published in Fast Company. Over the past two years, Silicon Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations. At ...

Pledge 1% is recognized on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies for 2017

Pledge 1% has been recognized as one of Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies in 2017. In addition to this honor, Pledge 1% has also been listed as one of the top 10 Most Innovative Compani...

Why Pledge 1% Is One Of The Most Innovative Companies Of 2017

Originally published on Fast Company. Amy Lesnick is looking for the next Uber—to commit 1% of its equity, product, profit, or time to charity. As the CEO of the nonprofit Pledge 1%, Lesnick thinks li...

Pledge 1% Celebrates 2 Years this #GivingTuesday by Announcing 1,300 Members in 38 countries

Two years ago today, we launched Pledge 1%, a global movement to create a new normal where giving back is integrated into the DNA of companies of all sizes. Today, we are excited to announce that over...

Pledge 1% and Founders Pledge Work Together to Inspire Greater Giving

Pledge 1%, the organization that challenges companies to give 1% of profit, product, equity, or time, and Founders Pledge, which invites founders to pledge 2% of their personal proceeds to charity upo...

Accel Partners kicks-off #PledgeItForward by hosting a dinner & conversation with Scott Farquhar

by Amy Lesnick, Chief Executive, Pledge 1% On Tuesday September 13, we celebrated reaching 1,000 members by kicking off a new campaign, #PledgeItForward, which asks YOU–our amazing Pledge 1% community...

Celebrating 1,000 Pledges!

September 13, 2016, By Amy Lesnick, Chief Executive, Pledge 1% In December 2014, we launched Pledge 1% in order to start a philanthropic movement, encouraging companies around the world to use their r...