Pledge 1% Blog

Get Agile: Find your niche, find your core

As a self-preneur, 2021 was a year of reflection. Improvements to do good (and do well) do not have to be a mammoth job nor a big convoluted process. I like to keep things simple. On my own journey I ...

App Solve Making a Difference With WoodGreen’s Food Bank

Our third volunteering experience for Pledge 1% was at WoodGreen, one of the largest social service agencies in Toronto. In this opportunity, we supported WoodGreen’s Food Bank, which is dedicated t...

Loop & Tie Mobilizes to Distribute Tablets to ICU Patients

At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Loop & Tie mobilized quickly to use its infrastructure to help gather and distribute tablets to ICUs so isolated patients could have access to video calls with ...

Taival Partnered with StartUp Refugees to Give Forward to the Community

Five years ago, Taival was established to change the way company's approach strategy and strategic change. Since then, one of our core values is to give forward to the community. This is why we have p...

Lob’s Inaugural Impact Week: Claws for the Cause 2021

This month, Lob.org hosted its very first company-wide Impact Week: Claws for the Cause. The goal of the event was to give all employees an opportunity t o have a positive social impact while at work....

Beyond Volunteering – Driving Sustainable Impact at Alteryx

Supporting the communities where we live and work has always been an integral part of Alteryx’s culture and our employee experience which is why we are proud to partner with Pledge 1% to donate our ti...

Asset Preservation Strategies Dedicates Time and Resources to Drive Positive Change

A pillar of the San Diego, California community for more than three decades, Asset Preservation Strategies has dedicated time and resources to drive positive change. Founder John Jenkins, alongside ...

Board Games Session in Associação Integrar

Fidizzi Pledge Happy Day! Our commitment is to give 1% of our time and profit to worthy causes, and that is why Fidizzi will help to carry out this activity that will aim to hold two board game sessio...

Raising Funds Through Exercise With Remote Teammates Across the Globe

At Atrium, our three core values are diversity of thought, authenticity, and initiative. All three are at the center of Atrium’s Pledge 1% partnership and Cultivate program, founded in September 202...

Smooth Consulting's Founder Coaches Children to Believe in Themselves

At Smooth Consulting, we are committed to generously giving back and have committed to Pledge 1%. We donate to select charities throughout the year and to plan to contribute in greater ways as the bus...

Neha Sampat, CEO of Contentstack: Giving Brings Us Closer

This year, I’m most proud of how we’ve engaged our Contentstack employees and their extended families in some of our pledge initiatives. These have been strong culture reinforcers for the organization...

It Often Begins With a Book

It often begins with a book. The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay, is about a boy navigating his way through adult dysfunction, peer bullying, and kindness from caretakers that fuels his maturation an...

Study.com donates subscriptions to hundreds of educators

From day one, our founders believed that companies should positively contribute to society. Study.com has donated $23 million in-kind value across our various social impact programs, including million...

Konnectryx and The Stay Beautiful Foundation

Konnectryx was honored to have the opportunity to donate its time and expertise in 2021 to The Stay Beautiful Foundation. This foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides beauty and wellnes...

o9 helps to make the planet a better place in a global cleaning project

During the month of September, o9 launched a global challenge to clean the planet. Combining the power of AI technology and our o9 community, we managed to collect, tag, and dispose of 29.000 pieces o...

Making Every Day Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday, the global movement to encourage and celebrate philanthropy and a commitment to social impact was founded in 2012 as a response to the consumption-heavy holiday shopping season. Th...

Social Champ's pledge to give back

Social Champ began with a dream, and since then, we have only gotten bigger and better. Our startup had a vision behind it, which made it unique and extremely solution-oriented, and result-driven. S...

Vestaboard's Inspire Community gives back

Inspire Community winner Britny Garcia uses Vestaboard to build positive thinking in her middle school special education classroom in Gilbert, Arizona.“What I appreciate most about Vestaboard is the...

GearsCRM and Budsies Pals

GearsCRM has been a fully-remote company since we were founded in 2009, with all of our employees working from home. We’ve always leveraged our internal communication channels to share ways to give ba...

Gerent Gives: Blessings in a Backpack

This year, Gerent launched a very special back-to-school giving campaign. While school supplies are always needed for children returning for the year, we know that 13 million children (one in six Amer...

OSF Digital: Dedicated to Serving Our Communities

OSF Digital is a team of innovators. We believe we can—and must—extend our inventiveness to create a positive impact in the communities where we operate. It’s a part of who we are as a company. Throug...

Good Stuff Partners goes beyond with volunteering, internships, and mentoring

When we joined Pledge 1% a few years ago, we didn't know what our giving would look like. Would we donate our time, money or product or a little of each? As a creative agency, our only real 'product' ...

Prolifiq believes in giving back

As a part of Prolifiq's Pledge 1%, we continue to emphasize the importance of giving back to our communities in Portland and Chicago, whether it is volunteering at local food banks, book banks or fo...

Triple Mountain Model Horses raises $10K+ through donated model sales

When your dreams come true, it's only right that you help make that happen for others, too. As a lifelong horse lover and collector of model horses, I have been blessed to be able to turn my hobby int...

Horizon Therapeutics Boards+

Generous financial support and event volunteering will always be foundational ways for companies to support local community and non-profit organizations. But at Horizon, we’ve added a progressive new ...

Coveo Joins Pledge 1% Movement and Commits 1% of Workforce’s Time, Profits, Products, and Equity

Coveo, a market-leading AI-powered relevance platform, announced today that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement to inspire, educate, and empower all companies to leverage their assets for good....

3 ways to be a better ally to your AAPI coworkers and the greater community

Over the last year we’ve seen an alarming rise in xenophobic and racist hate crimes against Asian Americans. Yelp stands in solidarity and is committed to supporting the AAPI community. Specifically, ...

Doing good while doing well.

In March 2021, Olo joined the Pledge 1% movement and created Olo For Good, committing one percent of Olo’s time, product and equity to Olo for Good initiatives to foster sustainable contributions to...

Feeding Bodies and Souls

Many of us feel lucky to find one charity that we connect deeply with. Jo Chilton, Splunk Customer Success Manager, has found two in the course of her volunteer journey, and since starting to volunt...

LeanData builds on their growing community efforts!

Working in the technology sector, squarely in the heart of Silicon Valley, it’s sometimes easy to take for granted our collective basic human needs of healthy food, clean water and secure housing. A...