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PLEDGE 1% IS HIRING!

Pledge 1% is hiring an Operations and Member Success Coordinator starting immediately! Full job description and details are below. To apply, email your resume with subject line “Ops & Member Success C...

Salesforce Completes its Acquisition of CloudCraze

Originally posted on Salesforce.com. Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, has completed its acquisition of CloudCraze, a leading B2B commerce platform built natively on Salesforce. Leading global com...

Pledge 1% Provides Path for Businesses to Give Back

By Chris Kohlhardt, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Gliffy We took the Pledge 1% because I want to be able to give something back to the San Francisco community I have called home for over 22 years...

More good together: Box announces the Box.org fund with Tides

Originally published on the Box blog by BRYAN BRECKENRIDGE Millions of people are suffering unimaginable circumstances around the world, even in the places members of the Box ecosystem live and work. ...

inWhatLanguage: Making an Impact in 2017

Originally published on the inWhatLanguage blog. OUR MISSION Our goal is to unify people and communities from all backgrounds through innovative translation and language service solutions. We’re alway...

Optoro Joins Pledge 1%

Originally published on the Optoro blog. Optoro is proud to announce that we have joined Pledge 1%, a global movement creating a new normal where companies of all sizes integrate giving back into thei...

DeFrame Joins Pledge 1%

Originally posted by the DeFrame team on Medium. Today, we are pleased to announce that DeFrame has joined the Boston chapter of Pledge 1%, a global philanthropic movement creating new normal where co...

Blocknubie: The First ICO To Join 1% Pledge

Originally published on Medium by Conor Nolan. In a recent conversation with a friend, I attempted to do the impossible — Explain Blockchain. So I described it through football, a medium we both under...

Granting to China Made “Easy?”

Originally published by CAF America. The China Overseas NGO Management Law, officially the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Administration of Activities of Overseas Nongovernmental Organizati...

Inside Silverline’s Best Places to Work Win

Originally published on Glassdoor. You can’t have it all. The popular refrain has been shouted from magazine coverlines and even folk songs as a means to caution women who try to excel in their person...

Pledge 1% and TechCo Team Up for CES 2018

By Conor Cawley, Tech.Co Around the holidays, charitable giving is on the rise. Whether it’s the spirit of Christmas or a recognition of cold weather making things harder for people, there’s no denyin...

MOVEMENT joins Pledge 1%

We are pleased to announce that MOVEMENT is now part of the Pledge 1% family, a corporate philanthropy initiative of which member companies pledge 1% of their equity, profit, employee time and/or prod...

CRM Science - pedaling the way forward with Pledge 1%

At CRM Science we are committed to charitable causes in our community by contributing 1% of our time, profit, and product. One of our biggest passions is supporting the National MS Society, through ou...

Join RFPIO and Donate to a Family This Holiday Season

From the RFPIO team. It’s hard to believe we’ve already made it to Q4 and are closing out what’s been such a great year for RFPIO. But beyond the growth of our business and the excitement that has bro...

Pledge 1% Member NEEV’s #GivingTuesday Tradition

By the team at NEEV. Every #GivingTuesday since NEEV was founded, we have supported our partner NGO the Power of Love Foundation with 30% of net proceeds. This year, we are giving 30% of net proceeds ...

How Data Philanthropy is Bridging the Gap Between Tech and Social Good

By John Snow Labs. Although we have a huge amount of data, still we are not able to fully address the needs of underrepresented and underserved populations around the world. Issue that the United Nati...

DATA PHILANTHROPY: THE NEED FOR MORE DATA SCIENTISTS FOR SOCIAL GOOD

By Ida Lucente, John Snow Labs. If you have the skills to work as a data scientist then there are lots of job opportunities waiting for you in the Data Philanthropy sector. Have you ever observed that...

Australian community is wealthier because of donating spirit

It is a timely reminder during Refugee week, from Sunday 18 June to Saturday 24 June 2017, which celebrates the contributions by refugees to Australian society, is that Australians of all status add t...

Pledge 1% celebrates its 3 year anniversary with companies giving over half a billion dollars of new

New York, New York – November 29, 2017 – Pledge 1% is ringing the Nasdaq bell today to honor the Pledge 1% companies who have gone public already, as well as the thousands of Pledge 1% members who are...

Easy Agile’s Commitment to Pledge 1%

Easy Agile is an Australian based software company, creating agile apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Their commitment to Pledge 1% began long before the birth of their company in 2015. Co-Founder’s a...

Giving Tuesday: AppExchange Partners Pledge 1%

See original post here. It's Giving Tuesday, and in the spirit of the holidays and helping others, the AppExchange team recently sought examples of how Salesforce partners are giving back to their com...

Innovation Station Puts Giving Front and Center

For foundations and most nonprofits, supporting issues and furthering causes is at the heart of what they do. And because of their status, these organizations are able to benefit from gifts and other ...

How Comalatech Gets a Distributed Team Involved in Giving

2017 marks the tenth year that Comalatech has been building software solutions inside the Atlassian ecosystem. A decade may have passed, but our core company values are still going strong. From the st...

Taking the 1% Pledge

By Ben Rooks, ST Advisors, Inc. After spending ten years of my career as a sell-side equity research analyst and six years as an investment banker, I began ST Advisors as a way to do the work I loved ...

Why Cloud Co-Op joined the Pledge 1% Movement

Cloud Co-op joined the Pledge 1% movement with a commitment to pledge 1% of our profit and time to charitable causes in our community. Our Pledge 1% motto, “Plant seeds to grow where you live so other...

Why we wouldn't settle: a thought piece from our co-founders

Three and a half years ago, we set out on a radical mission to change the healthcare industry. We had friends and family diagnosed with cancer told to wear tube socks over their PICC lines and felt th...

Ada Diamonds joins Pledge 1%

By Jason Payne, CEO of Ada Diamonds, the world’s first custom fine jeweler exclusively using laboratory-grown diamonds. My wife and I founded Ada Diamonds in 2015 on the belief that diamond jewelry ...

hint® supports Pledge 1%

By Kara Goldin, founder and CEO, hint, inc. Since creating hint® water to help myself and others break free from sugary and diet-sweetened drinks, I’ve heard from thousands of people who feel that dri...

#Pledge1Gives: An Interview with Erin Baudo Felter, Executive Director, Okta for Good

What makes your giving program stand out? Have you done a unique combination of time + product donation (or another combination)? As a newer player in the corporate social impact space, we’re focusing...

Out of Many, One

From day one, our mission at Postmates has been to help people unlock the best of their cities. While some companies try to build a warehouse outside of a city and funnel goods into it — we know that ...