Let’s Go Green Together
Originally posted by Dazeworks on the Dazeworks blog. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago- Warren Buffett” What is the best time for planting a tree? ...
Blog Articles
Salesforce just launched a $50 Million Impact Investing Fund
By Ben Payntor. Originally published on Fast Company. Over the last decade and a half, the cloud computing giant Salesforce has rewritten the rulebook for how corporate philanthropy is supposed to wor...
PE-backed Togetherwork buys Gingr
Originally published on The PE Hub Network. Togetherwork, which is backed by Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, has acquired Boulder, Colorado-based Gingr, a provider of pet services software. No financia...
MediaMath Pledges One Percent of Equity to Charity
NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — MediaMath, the leading independent programmatic company for marketers, today announced it is allocating 1% of equity to charity via MediaMath.org, as a Pledge 1...
Pledge 1% are Non-Profit Partners for India Dreamin
Originally published on India Dreamin’s website by the India Dreamin team. We are thrilled to announce our non-profit partner for India Dreamin – Pledge 1%. Through this partnership, we give attendees...
Dentem proudly becomes part of ‘Pledge 1%’ movement
Originally published on Medium. This is a great day for us as a team and as a young company. We are officially part of this great movement that promotes and celebrates giving back. Joining Atlassian, ...
Pluralsight Announces Pluralsight One, Social Impact Initiative Dedicated to Democratizing Technolog
To view original article, click here. SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Pluralsight, the enterprise technology learning platform, today announced Pluralsight One, the company’s socia...
TechCrunch joins Pledge 1% and creates a new model to “pledge it forward”
SAN FRANCISCO – September 18, 2017 – TechCrunch, a leading technology media platform, announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement to make giving...
Initial Philanthropic Opportunity: The New ‘IPO’ in the Tech Community
Originally published at TechPoint.org. Over the past few months, I’ve had several conversations about philanthropy and what we, as part of the tech community, are doing to give back to those in need. ...
On Philanthropy: Startups include philanthropy in their DNA
By Bruce DeBoskey. Originally published in the Chicago Tribune. Many entrepreneurs think of philanthropy as something to consider way off in the future when their businesses are mature and profitable....
PagerDuty Pledges 1%
Originally posted on PagerDuty. SAN FRANCISCO – September 6, 2017 – PagerDuty, the global leader in Digital Operations Management, today announced its commitment to Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy...
Pledge 1% On the Rise: Another Tech Firm Makes Its Grantmaking Debut
By Philip Rojc. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. When Salesforce founder Marc Benioff pledged to donate 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of product and 1 percent of employee time in 1999, te...
Okta Introduces Okta for Good Fund
Originally published on Business Wire. SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today introduced the Okta for Good Fund....
Hurricane Harvey: How to Help
The entire Pledge 1% community stands with the families, individuals, businesses, and organizations in Texas and along the Gulf Coast that have been effected by Harvey. Only a few days after the storm...
Qalaxia at Sunday Friends
Sunday Friends, A Working Alternative to Charity, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community service organization serving families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sunday Friends meets on Sundays at three diff...
Join RFPIO in the Give Back to School Campaign
Originally posted on the RFPIO blog. It’s back to school time, so the RFPIO team is giving back to our educational community. For our Q3 philanthropy mission, we’re partnering up with a local school i...
ALM Works Joins Pledge 1% Movement
By Igor Sereda. Originally published on the ALM Works blog. Today, we are pleased to announce that ALM Works has joined the Pledge 1%, a global movement creating new normal where companies of all size...
Humach CEO To Participate In “Over The Edge” Event
Originally posted on PR Newswire. DALLAS, Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Tim Houlne, CEO of leading business process and technology outsourcer Humach, will be participating in the upcoming Over the Edge ...
Enabling charities to reap the beneFIts of BDD
Hindsight Software is proud to have joined the corporate philanthropy movement Pledge 1% and we have pledged FREE licenses of our hero tool Behave Pro to charities. Behave Pro is already helping hundr...
Financial Literacy Partnership with UrbanX
The below letter was originally published on the Rapunzl Investments blog. Greetings, I am pleased to announce the launch of Rapunzl Cares – a social outreach initiative dedicated to promoting financi...
At SUBTA, Doing Good Starts at Day One
A company is much more than its product. Take GlobeIn, for example, a subscription company that delivers “a fresh collection of useful and enthralling [artisan] items from around the world” straight t...
To attract millennials, companies must give back
By Olive Keogh. Originally published in The Irish Times. When it comes to their careers, most millennials (roughly those born between 1980 and 2000) are not driven by money. They are natural job hoppe...
It Took the Pledge. Now This Tech Company Is Ramping Up Its Giving
By Philip Rojc. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. It’s nothing new to see corporate donations that complement the company’s core business and reflect its worldview. A set of grants last mon...
Ostendio Supports Local Community by Joining Pledge 1%
Ostendio has joined the Pledge 1% movement, a national philanthropic organization encouraging companies to give 1 percent of their equity, employee time and products to good causes. Ostendio has commi...
DocuSign Recognized with the Pledge 1% Impact Award
Pledge 1% is thrilled to partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, Forbes and Salesforce Ventures for their Cloud 100 event, which honors the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. Cloud 100 Pled...
10 million in 10 years
By Mark Reading. Originally published on the Atlassian blog. When I joined Atlassian as the Head of Foundation last December I knew I was becoming part of something very special. Atlassian’s 5 values ...
Salesforce inspired these Indy-based companies to Pledge 1%, now you can too
By Joshua Hall. Originally posted on Techpoint. You already know about part of Salesforce’s impact in Indiana — the software giant is creating more than 800 new jobs and 500 new apprenticeships, and i...
There’s a better way to build your startup
By Ron Miller. Originally published in TechCrunch. If a startup founder could peer 8 years into the future and see a company that has become the symbol for disruptive culture, one that has raised over...
Pledge 1% Member Profile: Savvy Hires
Hiring is hard. We make it easier. Savvy Hires is a consulting and workforce development firm that helps companies develop Strategic Internship and onboarding programs for pipeline development. 80% of...
Our quest for 150 miles in 24 hours at Endure24 – the Glastonbury for runners!
Originally published on New Voice Media’s blog. Endure24 is dubbed the Glastonbury for runners. It draws together around 3,000 weirdos, like me, from all walks of life to spend 24 hours of their lives...
