Welcoming NYC-Based Companies to Pledge 1%
Originally published on Medium. Last year on #GivingTuesday, Salesforce.org, along with Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado and Rally, launched Pledge 1%: a movement to encourage high-grow...
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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...
“Technology has always seen as a boys’ club – we’re trying to change that”
Originally published in the Independent Ireland. Suzanne DiBianca is at the pointy end of making companies less evil. There’s a real push – particularly in the technology sector – to use the wealth cr...
Australian start-ups can be world leaders, says global giant Salesforce
By David Swan. Published in the Australian. Global cloud computing firm Salesforce may be a $US10 billion tech behemoth but its head of start-up relations Ludo Ulrich says his door is always open to A...
How startups can improve the world 1% at a time
By Kye White. Originally published in StartUpSmart. The Pledge 1% philanthropy program, created by Salesforce and supported by the likes of Atlassian, is well on the way of meeting the goal it set lat...
Twilio commits to donating 1% of its equity to its nonprofit foundation
By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. Telecommunications API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, ...
Inside the Salesforce Foundation: What’s This Leader in Corporate Philanthropy Up to Now?
By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. If you’re attuned to either corporate philanthropy or the tech industry, you’ll know that the Bay Area tech firm, Salesforce, is unusual...
Calling All Entrepreneurs: Give Back To Your Community
By Brad Feld. Originally published on FeldThoughts. At Foundry Group, we have a deeply held belief that we benefit from our local community (Boulder, in our case) and that we have a responsibility, as...
Silicon Valley vs. Philanthropy
By Nicole Wallace. Originally published on Chronicle of Philanthropy. Jim Fruchterman, who leads Benetech, a nonprofit in the heart of Silicon Valley that uses technology for social good, knows how to...
Atlassian chief Scott Farquhar flags start-up charity drive
By David Swan. Originally published in The Australian. Atlassian co-founder and chief executive Scott Farquhar has revealed plans to enable all start-ups to give away 1 per cent of their company to c...
Salesforce Joins Forces with the Canadian Startup Ecosystem
SALESFORCE WORLD TOUR TORONTO—May 14, 2015—Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM company, today announced it is joining forces with the Canadian startup ecosystem. Salesforce al...
Robin Hood Foundation Joins Pledge 1% Movement
By Rosalyn Retkwa. Originally published on New York Nonprofit Media. The Robin Hood Foundation has signed on as the New York City partner for the Pledge 1% initiative, a corporate philanthropy movemen...
«1-1-1», le modèle philanthropique à la mode dans la Silicon Valley
By Jamal El Hassani. Originally published on Le Figaro. Le patron de Salesforce veut convaincre les start-up d’allouer 1% de leur capital, 1% de leur temps et 1% de leur production à des projets phila...
Verteilen und Beten
By Marc Beise and Ulrich Shafer. Originally published in Suddeutsche Zeitung. Für Ron Conway, den Mann mit der schlohweißen, etwas ausladenden Frisur, ist es die alles entscheidende Frage, sie beschäf...
Salesforce launches Pledge 1% for New York City startups
By Michael del Castillo. Originally published on New York Business Journal. Investor Ron Conway today announced that two powerful philanthropic organizations have joined forces to help make sure aspir...
Salesforce Expands Its “Pledge 1%” Philanthropic Model To New York Tech Companies
By Kim Mai-Cutler. Originally published on TechCrunch. Fifth-generation San Franciscan and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been a big proponent of civic engagement and philanthropy among the tech indu...
Salesforce launches Pledge 1% for New York City startups
By Michael del Castillo. Originally published in New York Business Journal. Investor Ron Conway today announced that two powerful philanthropic organizations have joined forces to help make sure aspir...
Why Apple chief Tim Cook wants to give away his $1 billion fortune
By Eloise Keating. Originally published on Smart Company. Apple chief executive Tim Cook plans to become the latest business leader to give away his fortune. In an extended interview with Fortune maga...
Pledge 1% helps firms commit to philanthropy
By Nicholas King. Originally published on Corporate Philanthropy Report. Some might think that strategic corporate philanthropy is the provenance of established and well-heeled companies, but the trut...
Atlassian’s 1% rule has raised $40 million for charity, and now they want 500 companies to join in
By Alex Heber. Originally published in Business Insider Australia. About 10 years ago Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes pledged 1% of their company to invest in philanthropic v...
5 things you need to know in Australian tech today
By Sarah Kimmorley. Originally published on Business Insider Australia. Happy Friday and welcome to the weekend. Here’s what you need to know. 1. The Apple Watch is here – almost. On March 9 Apple is ...
Mentoring: A Catalyst for Corporate Philanthropy
By Lina Caneva. Originally published on Pro Bono Australia. Having drawn inspiration from the CSR work of the world’s corporate titans, global online software company Salesforce is hoping to mentor an...
Pledge 1% Movement Launches in U.K.
More than 25 companies join Pledge 1% in the U.K., dedicating 1% of employee time, equity, product or profit to improve communities around the world U.K. companies, including NewVoiceMedia, Qubit and ...
Pledge 1% Program Launched to Celebrate, Foster and Inspire Early Stage Corporate Philanthropy
Originally published on CSR Wire. BOULDER, CO, Dec. 02 /CSRwire/ – #GivingTuesday — Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado and the Salesforce Foundation today announced the Pledge 1% program,...
Salesforce Foundation and partners want startups to pledge 1% of equity to philanthropy
By Chris Rauber. Originally published on San Francisco Business Times. The Salesforce Foundation is hoping to inspire 500 startups to pledge 1 percent of their company’s equity, 1 percent of the found...
