Pledge 1% Blog

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...

New Leaders for Sempervirens Fund and Pledge 1%

By Anais Stickland. Originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Pledge 1% Amy Lesnick, founder and managing partner at Crowdkick Strategies, a consultancy, and former head of social innovat...

Pledge 1% Announces Amy Lesnick as Chief Executive and President to Grow and Scale Corporate Philant

San Francisco, April 12, 2016—Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business, today announced that Amy Lesnick has joined the organi...

Move over casual Fridays, millennials have a new badge for tech cool

By Jemima Whyte. Originally published in the Financial Review. Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquahar wants every start-up business to commit to giving employee time, equity and funds to charity. He and...

Corporate philanthropy programme helps companies donate 1%

By Melanie May. Originally published on UK Fundraising. A corporate philanthropy movement which assists companies in donating 1% of their product, equity, profit, or employee time to help communities ...

Pledge 1% movement arrives in UK

Originally published on City Philanthropy. The American movement for businesses to Pledge 1% of their equity, product and employee time for community benefit has arrived in the UK. Building a movement...

Pledge 1% Launches in the UK!

Originally published on the Salesforce blog. Yesterday, Pledge 1% launched in the UK. The event, hosted at St James’s Palace by The Duke of York welcomed 150+ professionals and businesses passionate a...

Pledge 1% movement makes big strides in its first year

By Chris Player. Originally published on ARN. The Pledge 1% campaign that encourages companies to dedicate 1 per cent of employee time, equity, product or profit to improve communities around the worl...

Zuckerberg, other tech honchos give new meaning to #GivingTuesday

By Terry Collins. Originally published on CNET. Silicon Valley is giving more than ever before. In a culture with a reputation for being selfish, some tech heavyweights are using their clout and money...

Pledge 1% Program wants to help companies become more charitable

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 ...

How Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and others make a difference on Giving Tuesday

By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. First we had Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday, and then Cyber Monday. So after a long weekend of spending money on ourselves and loved ones...

On topic: Tech news to know now

By Levi Sumagaysay. Originally published on SiliconBeat. Here’s what’s on the Tuesday menu. A court document released Monday shows what NSLs are good for: The FBI uses national security letters to dem...

Here are numbers Amazon doesn’t want you to see

By Mark Hubert. Originally published on MarketWatch. Mark Hulbert discusses the growth expectations imbedded in Amazon.com’s current stock pick and how likely it is that they will be met. See full sto...

New Ways Startups Are Doing Good From The Start

By Ryan Scott. Originally published on Forbes. Attending SOCAP15, the recent Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco, was one of the highlights of my year. A world-renowned conference serie...

Marc Benioff, Salesforce Chief, on the Strategic Benefits of Corporate Giving

By Quentin Hardy. Originally published in The New York Times. To view the full article, visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/giving/marc-benioff-salesforce-chief-on-the-strategic-benefits-of-corp...

Charity at the tip of a unicorn

By Gillian Tett. Originally published in the Financial Times. If you are strolling around downtown San Francisco these days you might notice an imposing superstructure springing up, changing the skyli...

Salesforce to invest $100m into European cloud start-ups

By Caroline Preece. Originally published on CloudPro. Salesforce has set aside a $100 million fund to pour cash into European start-ups. The money will be allocated by the SaaS giant's global corporat...

Giving Back at Dreamforce: 5 Big Takeaways for Building Philanthropy Into Your Company’s DNA

By Naomi Morenzoni. Originally published on Medium. Any veteran of Dreamforce knows that our community gives back in a big way. This year was no exception with 1 million books donated to libraries and...

Ron Conway And Topher Conway From SV Angel: “There’s No Bubble”

By Drew Olanoff. Originally published on TechCrunch. Disrupt SF started off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch foun...

“Technology has always seen as a boys’ club – we’re trying to change that”

Originally published in the Independent Ireland. Suzanne DiBianca is at the pointy end of making companies less evil. There’s a real push – particularly in the technology sector – to use the wealth cr...

Australian start-ups can be world leaders, says global giant Salesforce

By David Swan. Published in the Australian. Global cloud computing firm Salesforce may be a $US10 billion tech behemoth but its head of start-up relations Ludo Ulrich says his door is always open to A...

How startups can improve the world 1% at a time

By Kye White. Originally published in StartUpSmart. The Pledge 1% philanthropy program, created by Salesforce and supported by the likes of Atlassian, is well on the way of meeting the goal it set lat...

Twilio commits to donating 1% of its equity to its nonprofit foundation

By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. Telecommunications API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, ...

Inside the Salesforce Foundation: What’s This Leader in Corporate Philanthropy Up to Now?

By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. If you’re attuned to either corporate philanthropy or the tech industry, you’ll know that the Bay Area tech firm, Salesforce, is unusual...

Calling All Entrepreneurs: Give Back To Your Community

By Brad Feld. Originally published on FeldThoughts. At Foundry Group, we have a deeply held belief that we benefit from our local community (Boulder, in our case) and that we have a responsibility, as...

Silicon Valley vs. Philanthropy

By Nicole Wallace. Originally published on Chronicle of Philanthropy. Jim Fruchterman, who leads Benetech, a nonprofit in the heart of Silicon Valley that uses technology for social good, knows how to...

Atlassian chief Scott Farquhar flags start-up charity drive

By David Swan. Originally published in The Australian. Atlassian co-founder and chief executive Scott Farquhar has revealed plans to enable all start-ups to give away 1 per cent of their company to c...

Robin Hood Foundation Joins Pledge 1% Movement

By Rosalyn Retkwa. Originally published on New York Nonprofit Media. The Robin Hood Foundation has signed on as the New York City partner for the Pledge 1% initiative, a corporate philanthropy movemen...

«1-1-1», le modèle philanthropique à la mode dans la Silicon Valley

By Jamal El Hassani. Originally published on Le Figaro. Le patron de Salesforce veut convaincre les start-up d’allouer 1% de leur capital, 1% de leur temps et 1% de leur production à des projets phila...

Verteilen und Beten

By Marc Beise and Ulrich Shafer. Originally published in Suddeutsche Zeitung. Für Ron Conway, den Mann mit der schlohweißen, etwas ausladenden Frisur, ist es die alles entscheidende Frage, sie beschäf...