Pledge 1% Blog

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...

The Power of Team Work

We at Appluent feel very fortunate to be growing our company together as a team and understand that we’ve all had help getting this far in our own personal situations. Paying it forward is a philosoph...

Giving Your Product, Profit, and Time to Charity – MTX Group’s Story

At MTX Group, social responsibility towards communities is at the core of our values, our culture and/or is a way of living. As much as we are involved in our business, we are equally engaged in givin...

Global Nonprofit With Over a Billion Dollars in Philanthropy is Ringing the Nasdaq Opening Bell

Pledge 1%, a global movement to create a new normal in which giving back is integrated into the DNA of companies of all sizes, is ringing the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of its fourth ann...

Creating a Sense of Community with Your Pledge 1% Program

As designers, we are tasked with creating and improving a brand’s identity and defining the unique position it has in the world. Our craft gives us a unique lens into culture and community and it fuel...

We Pledge 1% and Protect Non-Profit Mission-Critical Salesforce Data

The mission of non-profits is to help and give back to those in need around the world. To be successful, these organizations have established fundraising and marketing programs using the data stored o...

What Inspires COI Energy Services to Give Back

SaLisa Berrien, Founder and CEO of COI Energy Services, has over 25 years of experience in the electric power and smart grid space. From working in vertically integrated utilities (PP&L and PECO Energ...

The Values Behind “Unstuck Tuesdays”

Launching a startup is exciting, but it can also be an expensive and difficult environment to navigate. Stuck in the Sand’s mission is to give entrepreneurs a foundation, as well as easy access to too...

My Personal Journey to Joining Pledge 1%

In January 2017, I chose to let the shit hit the fan in my life. I had a clean slate ahead, in other words; I was starting from scratch at the age of 33. As an engineer with a Masters in Actuarial Sci...

Leveraging Your Product to Do Good

VideoOculograph is the first intelligent portable device on base of computer vision and machine learning for high reliable health diagnostics (vision pathologies, neurological disorders, inner ear ill...

Horizon Pharma’s Pledge 1% Commitment

At Horizon, giving back in personal ways is central to its culture. Joining the Pledge 1% community in 2018 served as a way to extend that ethos by formalizing actionable goals that will help maximize...

CEPTES pledged to give back with an initiative “feed every hungry soul”

We often wonder “how tough is my life?,” but if we look around, there are many people who are facing tougher challenges than us. It is not always about food, shelter, or clothing, but also getting the...

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 ...

Scaled Agile Releases SAFe® 4.6 Role-Based Curriculum with 10 Courses, all Focused on Mastering the

Originally published by PRWeb The SAFe 4.6 role-based curriculum is designed to increase success rates for global enterprises and government agencies using Lean, Agile, and DevOps BOULDER, Colo. (PRWE...

A little goes a long way: Why Atlassian is encouraging startups to pledge 1% of their equity to char

Originally published by SmartCompany Social impact and philanthropic gestures have long gone hand-in-hand with the world of startups, as billion-dollar companies and investors strive to put their weal...

Cloud Pathfinder Consulting Joins Pledge 1% Movement, Aids Veterans Job Skills Nonprofit

Originally published by Webwire Northern California IT Startup Joins Growing List of US Companies Devoting Resources to Philanthropic Causes Cloud Pathfinder Consulting (CPC), an emerging IT startup e...

Citus Data donates 1% equity to non-profit PostgreSQL orgs

View original post from Computerweekly.com There’s open source and there’s open source. There’s genuine free and open source software (FOSS) and then there’s largely locked down proprietary non-dynami...

Salesforce Announces Salesforce Tower Atlanta, Commits to Adding 600 New Local Jobs

Originally published by PRNEWSWIRE Fastest Growing Top 5 Enterprise Software Company to Significantly Expand Regional Headquarters in Atlanta Salesforce , the global leader in CRM, announced Salesforc...

Innosphere to partner with Pledge 1%

Originally published by BizWest. FORT COLLINS — Innosphere, the incubator for startup and scaleup science and tech-based companies, is partnering with the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and...

Powering the Greater Good with Better Data

Originally published on Looker Blog Looker has been embedded in its community since the very beginning. That’s actually why we’re headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA. Our founder and CTO, Lloyd Tabb, was ...

NewVoiceMedia Named in FT Future 100 2018

https://www.apnews.com/87fecbe6ed194f7a9c311bd0a20ad205 Originally published by NewVoiceMedia SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct 11, 2018–NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud contact cente...

Cloud Co-Op Coaches ICS+ to Big Returns with Salesforce and Tech ROI Award

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/cloud-co-op-coaches-ics-to-big-returns-with-salesforce-and-tech-roi-award-1027567499 Originally published by Cloud Co-Op AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2018 /...

What’s it like to be a Trailhead multiplier?

https://medium.com/inside-the-salesforce-ecosystem/whats-it-like-to-be-a-trailhead-multiplier-16c9f75ee5bd Originally published on Medium by Sean Dukes of Learnsmarter Just recently we’ve seen some gr...

From Conscious Capitalism to Clean Cookstoves, Viv Sets Out to Make a World of Difference in Guatema

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/from-conscious-capitalism-to-clean-cookstoves-viv-sets-out-to-make-a-world-of-difference-in-guatemala-300722917.html Originally published by Viv Networks, LLC ...

Nextep Charitable Foundation Joins the Pledge 1% Movement

Originally published by Nextep. NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Nextep announced today that, through its charitable foundation, it has joined Pledge 1%. Pledge 1% is a corporate philanthr...

How NewVoiceMedia Embraced the Pledge 1% Movement

Originally published on the Salesforce blog. By: Robert Gavin, SVP Alliances, NewVoiceMedia February 2016, NewVoiceMedia officially announced our participation in the Pledge 1% movement, applying a si...

RFPIO Renews Commitment to Pledge 1%, Makes Commitment to Integrated Philanthropy

Originally published on PR.com. RFPIO announces its commitment to Pledge 1%, leveraging 1% of product, equity and employee time, to improve communities around the world, and will showcase new Google C...

South Sudan Medical Supply Shipment

Originally published on Airlink’s website. Airlink, Flexport, Kenya Airways, and International Medical Corps are responding to the complex crisis in South Sudan with medical assistance for Internally ...