Originally published in The Australian. When Atlassian co-founder Scott
Farquhar was in his 20s, he and his girlfriend made a four-hour trip
from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to visit a school. Farquha...
This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series,
which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating
change within their workplace and communities. Janine Sickmey...
This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series,
which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating
change within their workplace and communities. Darine Pokawat...
This interview is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead
series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are
creating change within their workplace and communities. PLEDGE 1%: H...
This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series,
which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating
change within their workplace and communities. Susan Jones is...
This interview is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead
series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are
creating change within their workplace and communities. Q1: What is ...
This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series,
which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating
change within their workplace and communities. Lynn is a high...
By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. The
rising philanthropy of the U.S. tech sector has come in waves. In the
first wave, the big winners from the early boom in computer ha...
This interview is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead
series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are
creating change within their workplace and communities. Q1: What is ...
This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series,
which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating
change within their workplace and communities. Karen Lawson i...
Originally published on Tech.Co. Charitable giving has become an
integral part of the business world in recent years. With over two
thirds of millennials preferring to work for a company that gives ba...
By Ben Paynter. Originally published in Fast Company. Over the past two
years, Silicon Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio
all went public, earning billion dollar valuations. At ...
Read the original release here. Amplifinity, a leader in referral
program software, announced today the details of their partnership with
Playworks – a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating saf...
Pledge 1% has been recognized as one of Fast Company's World's Most
Innovative Companies in 2017. In addition to this honor, Pledge 1% has
also been listed as one of the top 10 Most Innovative Compani...
Originally published on Fast Company. Amy Lesnick is looking for the
next Uber—to commit 1% of its equity, product, profit, or time to
charity. As the CEO of the nonprofit Pledge 1%, Lesnick thinks li...
To read the original article, visit Fortune Magazine. Photo credit: Duy
Ho Photography. It might be common for corporations to make charitable
donations. But a few companies go above and beyond with t...
Originally published on the RFPIO blog. There’s no better way to ring in
the new year than by inspiring others to give. As a local company, RFPIO
understands the importance of community. Now they are ...
By Tommy Jarvis, FinancialForce4Good Council Chair Here at
FinancialForce, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the closing
of our 2016 volunteerism efforts than to announce our formal commitmen...
By Marisa Lopez, Presence PG. This post was originally published on
Medium. We like to think everyone wants to make positive changes in the
world. But where do you start? Corporate Social Responsibili...
By Dan Israel, Vice President and General Manager, Vlocity This is a
time of year when many around the world reflect on giving back to those
less fortunate. This year, Vlocity is honored to reflect wi...
Bstow is a tech company with social impact at its very core. Jason Grad,
CEO and Co-Founder, shares what it means to join a global movement of
companies that have pledged 1%. Tell me about Bstow. Bsto...
By Okta. More and more companies today are embarking on an important
journey of corporate social responsibility programs and joining the
Pledge 1% movement. Okta announced our program, Okta for Good, ...
Careers In Salesforce is a market leading job site that connects
employers seeking Salesforce talent, with candidates who are looking for
their next career move. We recently caught up with their Found...
By Philipp Stauffer, Co-Founder and Managing Director, FYRFLY Venture
Partners If you haven’t seen Gordon Gekko say “Greed is Good,” then go
watch his speech in the movie Wall Street, released in 1987...
By Nithya Das, SVP, General Counsel, AppNexus One of AppNexus’ core
company values is to see and improve the whole system – whether that
system means the internet, our technology or initiatives in our...
When Accomplice CEO Jeff Fagnan pledged one percent of his company’s
carry to the long-term benefit of two Boston-based nonprofits –
InnerCity Weightlifting and Resilient Coders, he described the move...
By Zubin Irani, CEO, cPrime cPrime is happy to be members of the Pledge
1% #PledgeItForward campaign. Mandating 1% of employee time to
charitable causes is a social initiative that we’ve been contribu...
By David Bloom. This piece was originally published on the Lurniture
blog. Your last name does not need to be Gates, Buffett or Zuckerberg
for you to be a philanthropist. Philanthropy is simply donati...
RevolarⓇ, makers of a discreet, wearable safety device, announced in
October a partnership with the National Domestic Violence Hotline (The
Hotline) to educate consumers about intimate partner violenc...
By Michael McNeil, Partner and General Manager, Oasis Digital When we
started our high school summer internship program in 2011, we had two
simple goals. We felt we could simultaneously provide great ...