Pledge 1% Blog

Nextep Hosts Nextep Gives Back Week

From October 4-8, 2021, Nextep hosted its semi-annual volunteer event, Nextep Gives Back Week. This year looked slightly different from last year’s Nextep Gives Back Days with a week’s worth of in-per...

AvidXchange Joins Pledge 1%, Reaffirms its Commitment to Social Responsibility as a Public Company

AvidXchange recently joined Pledge 1% as part of its transition to become a public company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Pledge 1% is a global movement that encourages and empowers compan...

Khoros uses their technology for good

Khoros offers an award-winning, AI-powered platform for digital customer engagement that helps brands harness the power of human connection across every digital interaction to keep them all-ways con...

Upwork's Remote Culture

As an online work marketplace that connects freelancers to employers around the world, Upwork has a unique perspective on how to manages remote workers. But how did the company manage its own internal...

Importance of Volunteering for Lakeshia Highsmith, VP of People at Rock Content

Volunteering is an important part of Lakeshia Highsmith's — VP of People at Rock Content — life and work, and our time commitment with Pledge 1% enabled that in a personal and professional way.

Building Equity in the Construction Industry

The construction industry is overwhelmingly white and male, with the number of employed people of color and women hovering at around 10 percent over the last 25 years. Procore.org, Procore’s socia...

Cameo + Pledge: Introducing a New Partnership for Profound Impact

Now more than ever, people in the US and around the world are searching for ways to easily make a difference in their daily lives through everyday actions. At Pledge, we proudly partner with platforms...

MTX Group supports underserved communities around the world

We are pleased to continue the tradition of #GivingTuesday. As part of our Pledge 1% commitment, MTX Group and The Nobel Foundation support underserved communities by improving access to quality educa...

Observability for Good customers team up with New Relic volunteers for hands-on product support

With NewRelic.org Pro Bono, our Observability for Good customers team up with New Relic volunteers for hands-on product support that helps nonprofits better leverage New Relic to use their technolog...

Lookout Foundation reaches 2500 women from 50+ countries with Day of Shecurity

Since Lookout was founded, the company has been committed to investing in the communities outside of our own doors where we can see the results as proud members of the Pledge 1% movement. The philanth...

Hustle and Asian Health Services

“Hustle helped us reach Asian Health Services patients and community members to inform them about COVID testing and vaccination opportunities. Since Hustle was capable of handling the Asian langua...

Cruise joins Pledge 1 and launches Cruise for Good

Cruise is proud to have joined Pledge 1% this past April as part of our launch of Cruise for Good - our social impact program leveraging our zero-emission, self-driving vehicles to positively impact t...

DroneDeploy: Bringing big data to small islands

DroneDeploy has continued to grow their social impact program as a member of Pledge 1%. In support of giving tuesday and #pledge1gives, we’d like to share a story from one of our nonprofit partners. D...

How Appfire is #LivingThePledge and giving back globally

At Appfire, giving back is in our DNA. Having participated in the Pledge 1% movement since its inception, we are proud of the way our Appfire family embraces it by #LivingThePledge. Appfire Co-found...

Addteq's Giving Story

We're grateful to be part of the Pledge 1% builder community and join the elite group of leading companies in the social impact space. Addteq is so excited to share our 2021 accomplishments with the c...

You Can Pledge 1% of an Idea and Generate Real Social Impact

The Techstars Foundation is pleased to announce the receipt of an equity gift from Rover.com valued at more than $630,000. This gift comes as a result of Rover.com’s recent initial public offering and...

Employee Giving with Unity

Unity created the Employee Giving Program as a means of empowering Unity employees to participate in opportunities that positively impact our local and global communities of creators making change. ...

The Power to Give Belongs to All of Us

The pandemic demonstrated that every sector, organization and person is responsible for change. Whether it’s with money, time, or skills – we all have the power to give. At Salesforce.org, this commit...

Here’s how Pledge 1% member Goodera is empowering their employees with volunteering initiatives

Historically, companies have engaged their employees through volunteering - often considered the cornerstone of corporate giving strategies. Mostly done as part of CSR initiatives, these volunteering ...

Award-winning NGO makes a difference with the help of Salesforce

SeeBeyondBorders is a UNESCO award-winning non-government organisation operating in Cambodia. The organisation works in primary schools in partnership with local communities to sustainably improve e...

Pacific Channel and Talalelei Life Futures Fund

Pacific Channel has joined Pledge 1%, committing to donate 1% of our revenues and 5% of our team’s time to support nonprofits in our community. We’ve helped the Talalelei Life Futures Fund (Talalelei)...

Increasing Flexibility to Drive Volunteerism

Recruiting and retention look a lot different in 2021 than they did twenty years ago. In addition to an increased focus on company purpose & mission and the ability to work a flexible schedule from ...

Record Donations Raised for the Sandra Schmirler Foundation, Serviced by net2phone Canada

This year’s Sandra Schmirler Foundation Annual Telethon, serviced by net2phone Canada, was held completely virtually, across Canada. Volunteers and supporters came together to make 2021 another record...

EbinRA's VictimsVoice Empowers Survivors

2020 was a hard year for most because of the COVID pandemic. But for Rosalee (not her real name), it became a prison where she was trapped with her abuser, unable to escape or call for help. The court...

Malaysian charity builds a platform to eradicate hunger

PhoenixDX met Zer0hunger during a global OutSystems Hackathon in February 2021. As part of their Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, they dedicate a percentage of time, human potential and pro...

Eigenherd GmbH makes Berlin a little cleaner!

Already since our foundation in 2017, we are a proud Pledge 1% member to support non-profit organizations and other charitable causes with our social commitment and entrepreneurial success. Taking res...

VRP Shares 14 Stories of Giving

VRP shares 14 stories of giving from this last year Giving children a bike, planting trees. The VRP Volunteer Club was very active, with several different initiatives. Our #VRPpeople from Minsk and Vi...

Adventure Therapy: a way to a life changing experience

During pandemic we all noticed how studying from home can leave a negative psychological and academic effects on young students, especially on those already most vulnerable – troubled adolescents from...

darwinLabs hosts 3 strava events to give to non-profits

darwinLabs takes as one of its core values Add Value to our customers, to our community, and to society in general. It is within this scope that every year, darwinLabs contributes to, at least, one so...

Nicola Askham brings her passion for Data Governance to charities

I’m Nicola Askham, I’m known as The Data Governance Coach. I help organisations understand and manage their data better. Typically people turn to me because their data is a mess and they need help unr...