Pledge 1% Blog

Kahuso Celebrates the Upside by Pledging 1% to the Upside Foundation

Watch this video to hear why Michael Carter, co-founder at Kahuso, decided to Pledge 1%. Originally posted: November 29, 2016

Comalatech’s Annual Tradition: Giving Back to the Community

The holiday season brings with it the season of giving, and at Comalatech that means fondly remembering the opportunities we've had to give back to our communities. We are ardent believers that our su...

A short interview with ThinkTilt about why they pledged 5%

ThinkTilt is a new venture founded by three colleagues committed to making a difference in their communities. Their product ProForma is an add-on for Atlassian’s JIRA project management tool, which al...

With Great Growth Comes Responsibility

By Jessie VanderVeen, CMO, Tempo Tempo has been a partner of Room to Read for more than six years now as part of our corporate culture of community service and philanthropic leadership to empower othe...

How Pledge1 has Helped RefinedWiki Bring Effective Altruism into Focus

Joining Pledge1 has helped us to engage our employees and be more transparent in the way we give to charity – Co-founder Jimmy Lundström We want to create a workplace people are proud to work at – CEO...

Teaming up for computer science education in Sydney

By an Atlassian volunteer. I have a son and a daughter attending public school in Sydney. As an Aussie transplant having grown up in Czechoslovakia, when I moved to Australia, I wanted to learn as muc...

Pledge 1%, SRS Acquiom launched EscrowUP, an effortless way for the M&A community to give back

Pledge 1% is proud to partner with SRS Acquiom, an M&A service provider, to launch EscrowUP, a new program that creates an effortless way for the broader M&A community to give back. It’s mission: to p...

Pledge 1% and Founders Pledge Work Together to Inspire Greater Giving

Pledge 1%, the organization that challenges companies to give 1% of profit, product, equity, or time, and Founders Pledge, which invites founders to pledge 2% of their personal proceeds to charity upo...

The Salesforce Incubator #PledgesItForward

Last Thursday, the newly launched Salesforce Incubator invited member companies to come together in person to talk about how they are building Pledge 1% into the DNA of their business. During the even...

will.i.am and i.am+ Reveal BUTTONS and Join the Pledge 1% Movement

Global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am and his company i.am+ have joined the Pledge 1% movement and are #PledgingItForward in a big way with the launch of their newest product BUTTONS, premium...

Pledge 1% Ambassador PandaPay launches #MindfulCommerce Movement to Boost Giving Back

This week, PandaPay, an API for charitable giving and a Pledge 1% member, is announcing the launch of Mindful Commerce, a new movement that helps companies get involved in Pledge 1% and start giving b...

Pledge 1% Member Simplus Ditches the Swag & Gives Back at Dreamforce

With Dreamforce just around around the corner, we are proud to see Pledge 1% member Simplus leading by example and making giving back a core part of their booth activation. This will be Simplus’ first...

Accomplice pledges 1% of carry to local non-profits at Pledge 1% Boston kick-off event

Last night, September 28, Pledge 1% partnered with The Boston Foundation to launch Pledge 1% Boston, a pilot regional model for the movement. The event started with resounding enthusiasm as Accomplice...

Pledge 1% at Dreamforce: Your Guide to Sessions Focused on the Global Movement of Giving Back

Sep 26, 2016 By Naomi Morenzoni, Salesforce.org At Dreamforce this year, you won’t be able to go far without seeing or hearing about Pledge 1%. Inspired by Salesforce’s 1-1-1 Model, Pledge 1%encourage...

Grand Central Tech is Proud to Partner with Pledge 1%

By Grand Central Tech on September 22, 2016, originally published on their website in News When Grand Central Tech started in 2014, we did so with the goal of creating a single point of density of the...

Accel Partners kicks-off #PledgeItForward by hosting a dinner & conversation with Scott Farquhar

by Amy Lesnick, Chief Executive, Pledge 1% On Tuesday September 13, we celebrated reaching 1,000 members by kicking off a new campaign, #PledgeItForward, which asks YOU–our amazing Pledge 1% community...

Celebrating 1,000 Pledges!

September 13, 2016, By Amy Lesnick, Chief Executive, Pledge 1% In December 2014, we launched Pledge 1% in order to start a philanthropic movement, encouraging companies around the world to use their r...

#PledgeItForward and Get a FREE Campaign T-shirt!

To celebrate reaching 1,000 members and to help kick-off the campaign, we are offering YOU – our amazing Pledge 1% community – an additional BONUS PERK from now through September 27. Any person that r...

3 Quick (and easy!) Steps to #PledgeItForward

It’s easy to #PledgeItForward! Just follow the 3 steps below or refer to our toolkits page to access more logos, graphics and materials to help you encourage others to pledge 1%. Step 1: Identify a Po...

The Salesforce Do-Good Legacy

By Heather Glancy. Originally published in Fortune. When I perused Fortune’s latest “Change the World” ranking of companies tackling major societal problems over the weekend, I was dismayed to see how...

New Leaders for Sempervirens Fund and Pledge 1%

By Anais Stickland. Originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Pledge 1% Amy Lesnick, founder and managing partner at Crowdkick Strategies, a consultancy, and former head of social innovat...

Pledge 1% Announces Amy Lesnick as Chief Executive and President to Grow and Scale Corporate Philant

San Francisco, April 12, 2016—Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business, today announced that Amy Lesnick has joined the organi...

Pledge 1% Program Celebrates One Year Anniversary: Welcoming Australian & New Zealand Companies to P

By Shana Franti. Originally published on the Salesforce blog. Pledge 1% is a corporate philanthropy movement spearheaded by Salesforce.org, Atlassian, and Rally for Impact and Tides dedicated to makin...

Move over casual Fridays, millennials have a new badge for tech cool

By Jemima Whyte. Originally published in the Financial Review. Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquahar wants every start-up business to commit to giving employee time, equity and funds to charity. He and...

Corporate philanthropy programme helps companies donate 1%

By Melanie May. Originally published on UK Fundraising. A corporate philanthropy movement which assists companies in donating 1% of their product, equity, profit, or employee time to help communities ...

Pledge 1% movement arrives in UK

Originally published on City Philanthropy. The American movement for businesses to Pledge 1% of their equity, product and employee time for community benefit has arrived in the UK. Building a movement...

Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Benefit Us All?

By Miguel Milano, President of Salesforce in EMEA. Originally published on The Huffington Post. The over-arching theme of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos this year was the Fourth Indus...

Pledge 1% Launches in the UK!

Originally published on the Salesforce blog. Yesterday, Pledge 1% launched in the UK. The event, hosted at St James’s Palace by The Duke of York welcomed 150+ professionals and businesses passionate a...

Businesses Are the Greatest Platforms for Change

By Marc Benioff. Originally published on The Huffington Post. Every day I am reminded that we are living in the most exciting and transformative era in history. In my 35-plus years in the technology i...

Billions at Stake as IPO Charity Set-Asides Become Routine

By Rebecca Koenig. Originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After years of sporadic interest, technology startups are embracing the practice of setting aside company stock before initial...