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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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; ...
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...
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,
...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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% 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...
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...
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%, 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...
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...
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...
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...