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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...
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...
