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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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; ...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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The Salesforce Do-Good Legacy

By Heather Glancy. Originally published in Fortune. When I perused Fortune’s latest “Change the World” ranking of companies tackling major societal problems over the weekend, I was dismayed to see how...

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