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Corporate Social Impact Predictions And Prognostications For 2020
As originally published on Forbes.com The new decade ushers in fresh opportunities for social impact to evolve, deepen and expand. While no one has a crystal ball into the future, savvy social impact ...
Procore Recognized with Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award
September 11, 2019 – Forbes’ The Cloud 100, the definitive list of the 100 top private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks, announced today that Procore, the all-in-one ...
southstart conference partners with Atlassian Foundation as a Pledge 1% event
SouthStart has released early bird tickets for its 2-day, multi-track technology conference, taking place at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 20-21 November in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurs W...
NOW HIRING: Executive Assistant & Member Success Coordinator
Company Overview: Pledge 1% is a global movement to change the status quo and create a new normal where giving back is baked into the DNA of every company from the very beginning. Pledge 1% empowers c...
Code42 Expands its Corporate Philanthropy Program
MINNEAPOLIS — Nov. 27, 2018 — Code42, the leader in data loss protection, visibility and recovery solutions, announced that it has expanded its corporate philanthropy program. The company recently lau...
Slack Recognized with Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award
September 12, 2018 – Forbes The Cloud 100, the definitive list of the 100 top private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks, announced today that Slack, the cloud-based co...
13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth
Originally published on Tech.Co. If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less c...
Pledge 1% Announces 5,000 Members in Over 100 Countries at Collision
New Partnership with Web Summit Inspires Companies Large and Small to Join Pledge 1% New Orleans, Louisiana – May 3, 2018 – Pledge 1%, the global movement to make giving back the norm for companies of...
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...
