Pledge 1% Blog

Small acts of kindness quickly add up

Every year at 97th Floor, we set out to show the world how quickly kindness can grow. What Does Twenty Dollars Mean For many people, twenty dollars isn’t a lot of money. In a world of debit cards and ...

Looker Announces Pledge 1% Campaign During Keynote at Data Conference

Daniel Mintz, chief data evangelist at Looker, announces the company’s commitment to Pledge 1% during his keynote at Looker’s annual data conference, JOIN, in October at the Palace of Fine Arts in San...

How Arizona State University Gives Back

One of Arizona State University’s goals is to enhance our local impact and social embeddedness. The University Technology Office (UTO) at ASU embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for adva...

Where to Start with Social Impact: Send a Signal

By Erin Baudo Felter, Executive Director, Okta for Good At Okta’s first office, our co-founders Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest had a poster above their desks with former Southwest Airlines CEO Her...

Classy, Pledge 1%, and The Sheridan Story

In October 2018, Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, reached the incredible milestone of $1 billion raised on the platform by organizations...

Crunchbase joins the Pledge 1% movement

Crunchbase’s mission is to help innovators discover opportunities. Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking for funding, a sales person looking for buyers, or you’re just trying to stay on top of the la...

Every enterprise app purchased from Appfire’s new brand will feed 3 children for a year

By Randall Ward From the very beginning, every major decision we’ve made at Appfire has been driven by our number one core value — be human. Today, we are incredibly proud to launch an entirely new br...

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 ...

Sharing the story of FoodFight!

Since Postmates began FoodFight!, they’ve made some pretty significant leaps and bounds in their journey to reduce hunger and food waste in the US. FoodFight! currently operates in Oklahoma City, Nash...

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...

#BeBoldForChange with 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. Our goals were to empowe...

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...

Code42 Expands its Corporate Philanthropy Program

MINNEAPOLIS — Nov. 27, 2018 — Code42, the leader in data loss protection, visibility and recovery solutions, announced that it has expanded its corporate philanthropy program. The company recently lau...

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...

iVision supports the Atlanta Community Food Bank

In 2018, iVision joined a network of corporations in taking the 1% Pledge: we committed to giving back 1% of our time and profits to help improve our local communities. For our inaugural event, iVisio...

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...