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...
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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 ...
SILENCE LAUNCHES CHARITY RECORD AND BOOKSHOP WITH DJ GILLES PETERSON
View the original post on Silence Media’s website. Silence is a Pledge 1% company, which means we give 1% of our time, product and profit to charity. As part of this pledge, we’ve collaborated with mu...
Volunteer time off: giving employees a perk that gives back
Written by Sarah Goff-Dupont. Originally published on the Atlassian blog. If 1 in 10 companies shared a business practice in common, would you sit up and take note? If the number moved to 1 in 5, woul...
Geopointe is Giving Back at Dreamforce
Originally published on the Geopointe blog. How Geopointe, Salesforce & Pledge 1% are Making a Difference Geopointe is excited to once again be joining Salesforce and Pledge 1% in their efforts to giv...
Slack Recognized with Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award
September 12, 2018 – Forbes The Cloud 100, the definitive list of the 100 top private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks, announced today that Slack, the cloud-based co...
Box Announces International Rescue Committee and Think of Us as BoxWorks 2018 Social Impact Partners
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180830005231/en/Box-Announces-International-Rescue-Committee-BoxWorks-2018 Nine additional nonprofits named as Box.org Fund Grant Recipients August 30, 2018 12...
Next Chapter: A pilot program aiming to help formerly incarcerated individuals find work and succeed
https://slackhq.com/next-chapter-a-pilot-program-aiming-to-help-formerly-incarcerated-individuals-find-work-and-succeed-in-tech “By a show of hands, how many of you in here have made a bad choice,” sa...
CASHREWARDS Reaches AU$1 Billion Milestone in Australia
https://prwire.com.au/pr/78989/cashrewards-reaches-au-1-billion-milestone-in-australia Over $1 billion dollars in revenue generated for retail partners since launch in 2014 Over $43 million savings ge...
On National Dog Day CASHREWARDS along with partners Pet Circle and Petbarn are getting involved in s
https://prwire.com.au/pr/78945/on-national-dog-day-cashrewards-along-with-partners-pet-circle-and-petbarn-are-getting-involved-in-spreading-the-word This Sunday 26 August is National Dog Day and CASHR...
