Pledge 1% Blog

Consulting with Purpose for a Better Future

By: Louis Maldonado As members of the ever-growing Salesforce ecosystem, we at Silverline spend a lot of time thinking about the future—of technology, customers, team members, and the world as a whole...

When Gratitude is Part of Your DNA, Everyone Wins

By: Brian Bachofner, Chief Marketing Officer at MapAnything “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever ...

This #GivingTuesday, Can We Do Good, Better?

By Michael Quinn, Director of MediaMath.org. On #GivingTuesday, there is a 24-hour period in which there is a temporary shift in our society from a focus on consumption to generosity as we hear about ...

GiveFirst with Techstars

GiveFirst is a core value for all of us at Techstars - a way for us to continually improve the world around us. We want to ensure that the cycle of giving continues indefinitely and we believe that we...

Focus on Purpose

Today when you look at a company, one should consider it’s product, it’s people and its focus on purpose. The product will vary and often drive public opinion by the consumer on how they see the compa...

Salesforce Celebrates #GivingTuesday with Pledge 1%

By: Suzanne DiBianca, EVP Corporate Relations & Chief Philanthropy Officer At Salesforce we operate with a set of core values and after nearly 20 years, our values and commitment to equality and impro...

10 Creative Ways Your Organization Can Give Back To Your Community

Why Vidyard Joined Pledge 1% A little over a year ago, we at Vidyard, an online video platform for business to increase leads, accelerate pipeline and delight customers, signed up to be part of Pledge...

Changing the Future of Work

By Elizabeth Tse The nature of work is evolving rapidly. As the largest freelancing website, my company Upwork is proud to be at the forefront of this change. We know that not everyone is set up to th...

Pluralsight authors Pledge 1% with a matching gift on Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is focused on mobilizing the world around giving and community engagement. It’s a day meant to kickoff the charitable season, celebrate giving and philanthropy––and is fueled by the pow...

Giving Back with Optoro

Optoro is a reverse logistics technology company helping brands and retailers reduce supply chain waste. Every year we host a free community event called Swap Shop. Swap Shop brings our community toge...

Giving Beyond #GivingTuesday with ShoppingGives

At ShoppingGives we believe that customers want to support brands and retailers who prioritize giving and that they will prioritize shopping at those brands. Our mission is to create frictionless givi...

Here’s How You Can Maximize Your #GivingTuesday Efforts: Ask Questions

By Laura Wronski, Senior Research Scientist, SurveyMonkey As we head into the holiday season, many people are eager to give back and donate to the causes they care most about. In fact, according to la...

Geopointe gives back this #GivingTuesday

The Geopointe team is excited to participate in their first #GivingTuesday campaign this year! Giving back has always been one of the core values at Geopoine, initiated by CEO and founder, Scott Hemme...

The mission of Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade is to mobilize the Canadian Insurance Industry

The mission of Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade is to mobilize the Canadian Insurance Industry in the fight against cancer by focusing on cancer research, support and education Since the inception of...

The Butterfly Effect: How KMS Helps Others

Have you heard of the butterfly effect? This phenomenon suggests a butterfly fluttering in Rio de Janeiro could change the weather in Chicago. What if we applied that theory to the effects of voluntee...

Pledging 1%, Connecticut company, Viv, shows that giving often leads to getting

When Viv started earlier this year, its management team knew the company’s disruptive technology and customer-focused energy savings platform would help the company begin to break into a largely estab...

Baking Pledge 1% into the DNA of Your Business

Coleman Insights is a media research company that specializes in building strong brands and developing great content for radio stations and media brands around the world. Coleman Insights President Wa...

The First Year as a Pledge 1% Member

We’re wrapping-up our first year as participants in Pledge 1%, and we’re amazed to see how transformational this pledge has been for our team. Our company, Debug Pest Control is just as the name would...

Giving Time with Gen25

With Pledge 1% we inspire our employees to give back to our community. We convert part of our business success into support for nonprofits. Within Gen25, there are various options to start as a volunt...

The Power of Team Work

We at Appluent feel very fortunate to be growing our company together as a team and understand that we’ve all had help getting this far in our own personal situations. Paying it forward is a philosoph...

Giving Your Product, Profit, and Time to Charity – MTX Group’s Story

At MTX Group, social responsibility towards communities is at the core of our values, our culture and/or is a way of living. As much as we are involved in our business, we are equally engaged in givin...

Global Nonprofit With Over a Billion Dollars in Philanthropy is Ringing the Nasdaq Opening Bell

Pledge 1%, a global movement to create a new normal in which giving back is integrated into the DNA of companies of all sizes, is ringing the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of its fourth ann...

Creating a Sense of Community with Your Pledge 1% Program

As designers, we are tasked with creating and improving a brand’s identity and defining the unique position it has in the world. Our craft gives us a unique lens into culture and community and it fuel...

We Pledge 1% and Protect Non-Profit Mission-Critical Salesforce Data

The mission of non-profits is to help and give back to those in need around the world. To be successful, these organizations have established fundraising and marketing programs using the data stored o...

What Inspires COI Energy Services to Give Back

SaLisa Berrien, Founder and CEO of COI Energy Services, has over 25 years of experience in the electric power and smart grid space. From working in vertically integrated utilities (PP&L and PECO Energ...

The Values Behind “Unstuck Tuesdays”

Launching a startup is exciting, but it can also be an expensive and difficult environment to navigate. Stuck in the Sand’s mission is to give entrepreneurs a foundation, as well as easy access to too...

My Personal Journey to Joining Pledge 1%

In January 2017, I chose to let the shit hit the fan in my life. I had a clean slate ahead, in other words; I was starting from scratch at the age of 33. As an engineer with a Masters in Actuarial Sci...

Leveraging Your Product to Do Good

VideoOculograph is the first intelligent portable device on base of computer vision and machine learning for high reliable health diagnostics (vision pathologies, neurological disorders, inner ear ill...

Horizon Pharma’s Pledge 1% Commitment

At Horizon, giving back in personal ways is central to its culture. Joining the Pledge 1% community in 2018 served as a way to extend that ethos by formalizing actionable goals that will help maximize...

CEPTES pledged to give back with an initiative “feed every hungry soul”

We often wonder “how tough is my life?,” but if we look around, there are many people who are facing tougher challenges than us. It is not always about food, shelter, or clothing, but also getting the...