Pledge 1% Blog

Strillobyte Pledges Time to TEDxLondon

At Strillobyte, we strongly believe that businesses, no matter the size, have a responsibility to improve the world we are living in. A ‘giving back’ business culture is fundamental to us to fulfil ou...

How Our Values Drive Our Giving

Everyday in Nigeria, over 500 babies die within the first month of birth. We’ve got GRIT at Mumspring. We do what it takes. Our corporate citizenship committee realized that to really move the needle ...

Maximizing the ROI of our giving: going beyond giving time and money

At GravityLab we take giving very seriously. We want to maximize our giving and live out our values. Each employee gets around $5,000 a year to use on a cause they are passionate about and in the way ...

DATA PHILANTHROPY: THE NEED FOR MORE DATA SCIENTISTS FOR SOCIAL GOOD

By Ida Lucente, John Snow Labs. If you have the skills to work as a data scientist then there are lots of job opportunities waiting for you in the Data Philanthropy sector. Have you ever observed that...

Pledge 1% celebrates its 3 year anniversary with companies giving over half a billion dollars of new

New York, New York – November 29, 2017 – Pledge 1% is ringing the Nasdaq bell today to honor the Pledge 1% companies who have gone public already, as well as the thousands of Pledge 1% members who are...

Easy Agile’s Commitment to Pledge 1%

Easy Agile is an Australian based software company, creating agile apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Their commitment to Pledge 1% began long before the birth of their company in 2015. Co-Founder’s a...

Giving Tuesday: AppExchange Partners Pledge 1%

See original post here. It's Giving Tuesday, and in the spirit of the holidays and helping others, the AppExchange team recently sought examples of how Salesforce partners are giving back to their com...

Innovation Station Puts Giving Front and Center

For foundations and most nonprofits, supporting issues and furthering causes is at the heart of what they do. And because of their status, these organizations are able to benefit from gifts and other ...

How Comalatech Gets a Distributed Team Involved in Giving

2017 marks the tenth year that Comalatech has been building software solutions inside the Atlassian ecosystem. A decade may have passed, but our core company values are still going strong. From the st...

Taking the 1% Pledge

By Ben Rooks, ST Advisors, Inc. After spending ten years of my career as a sell-side equity research analyst and six years as an investment banker, I began ST Advisors as a way to do the work I loved ...

Why we wouldn't settle: a thought piece from our co-founders

Three and a half years ago, we set out on a radical mission to change the healthcare industry. We had friends and family diagnosed with cancer told to wear tube socks over their PICC lines and felt th...

Ada Diamonds joins Pledge 1%

By Jason Payne, CEO of Ada Diamonds, the world’s first custom fine jeweler exclusively using laboratory-grown diamonds. My wife and I founded Ada Diamonds in 2015 on the belief that diamond jewelry ...

hint® supports Pledge 1%

By Kara Goldin, founder and CEO, hint, inc. Since creating hint® water to help myself and others break free from sugary and diet-sweetened drinks, I’ve heard from thousands of people who feel that dri...

#Pledge1Gives: An Interview with Erin Baudo Felter, Executive Director, Okta for Good

What makes your giving program stand out? Have you done a unique combination of time + product donation (or another combination)? As a newer player in the corporate social impact space, we’re focusing...

Out of Many, One

From day one, our mission at Postmates has been to help people unlock the best of their cities. While some companies try to build a warehouse outside of a city and funnel goods into it — we know that ...

Silverline Cares is creating a new example for companies to give back

An interview with Jill Harrison, Innovation Programs, Silverline CRM How do you contribute to the non-profit community? * 2017 marked Silverline’s 7th consecutive year sending a team of volunteer cons...

Announcing #20Helps “Track Your Impact” App | What Impact Will You Make?

It’s the season for sharing and service and for the last three years 97th Floor, along with thousands from around the globe, have shared ways a simple $20 dollar bill can serve others during this holi...

Pledging 1% of Profits the LoSoMo Way

By the team at LoSoMo. When our founder, Scott Romney, first heard of the 1% Pledge through a contact at Salesforce last year, it immediately resonated with his desire to make a difference as a busine...

Pledge 1% Meets (and is inspired by) James & SpringCM

SpringCM became a member of Pledge 1% in July 2017, and we’ve been hard at work giving back to our community since then. As a company, we’re proud of a lot of things, but two things in particular: our...

Swipe Right on Corporate Responsibility - Why PandaDoc Chose to Give

By Scott Cunningham, Head of Alliances with a focus on Salesforce at PandaDoc. Scott's an entrepreneur, investor, and child rights activist, with a love for emerging technology, start-ups, and innovat...

#GivingTuesday: Why You Should Bake Community Betterment into your Business Model

Author: Michael Litt, CEO Vidyard This #GivingTuesday, we’re taking a moment to reflect what it means to give back as a business. We’re proud that community impact is one of our top priorities at Vidy...

Pluralsight One

In late September of this year, Pluralsight, the enterprise technology learning platform, took a major step toward addressing the global technology skills gap and fulfilling its mission to democratize...

Introducing WillowTree Social Impact and Pledge 1%

Since the earliest days of WillowTree in 2007, we’ve made it a point to contribute our expertise to helping local charities and organizations achieve their goals with digital solutions of a caliber th...

#GivingTuesday 2017: Classy Launches Real-Time Giving Hub and New Philanthropic Effort, “ClassyGives

Just in time for #GivingTuesday, Classy is rallying behind the sector to contribute to the biggest giving day of the year. SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2017 // As nonprofits prepare for #GivingTuesday,...

Salsify's Guppy Tank is having a big impact on Boston students

By the team at Salsify. “I definitely see technology in my future.” Enthusiastic 6th grader, Mario Umana Academy, Boston As with most of the best ideas, it started with a bunch of smart women in a roo...

Geopointe Launches Customer Referral Rewards Program with a Charitable Twist

Submit your Referrals, Receive a Reward & Give to Charity Today is Giving Tuesday, A Global Day of Giving! As such, the time seemed perfect for Pledge 1% member Geopointe to launch its new Referral Re...

We Are With Women

By Amanda Deol, Addteq In the last blog on Spotlight on #BeBoldForChange Campaign at Addteq, we talked about our individual 2017 goals for the Women in Tech movement, and Pledge 1% growth at Addteq. O...

Vera Solutions gives back through values-based employee recognition program

By Zak Kaufman, Co-Founder and CEO, Vera Solutions Each November, staff at Vera Solutions nominate peers for annual Recognition Awards, tipping their hats to teammates who have exemplified the company...

Making the Holiday Season More Joyful for Children Who Had it Rough

By the team at Stiltsoft. StiltSoft is an Atlassian Silver Solution Partner from Belarus. Being a Pledge 1% member since June 2016, the company is committed to giving back to its local community. The ...

anarcon is applying their skills to help communities in need & encourage others to join them

By Pascal Wiedmann, Consultant, anarcon As a Munich-based software consultancy, anarcon endeavors to provide its customers with the highest quality services. Since summer 2017, we also dedicated ourse...