Beanworks Joins the Pledge 1% Initiative
Originally published on the Beanworks blog. From the team at Beanworks: What if we all gave 1% of our time? At Beanworks, we take community giving to heart. As a team, our employees have embraced givi...
Blog Articles
#WomenWhoLead: Kimmy Scotti, Founding Partner at 8VC & Co-Founder/CEO of Monthly Gift
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. Kimmy Scotti i...
Spotlight on #BeBoldForChange Campaign at Addteq
Published by Amanda Deol, Addteq. Our Goal One of Addteq’s culture goal for 2017 was to campaign for women in tech, starting with the women within our company. We had a few brainstorming sessions to e...
John Snow Labs Expands Data Philanthropy Program – Joins 1% Pledge Movement and Helps HopHacks 2017
Originally published in Digital Journal. The Expanded program provides hackathons, schools & non-profits free access to hundreds of clean, rich and current data sets. ThreatSync, a global cyber threat...
#WomenWhoLead: Julia Moran, Director of Growth, PandaPay.io
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. Julia Moran is...
#WomenWhoLead: Heather Sittig, CEO & co-founder, Relola
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. Heather Sittig...
#WomenWhoLead: Jacqueline Ros, Co-founder & CEO, Revolar
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. Jacqueline Ros...
#WomenWhoLead: TUGG’s Dream Team: Zoe Anetakis & Elizabeth Dobrska
This article was submitted by Tim Smith, Director of Innovation Partnerships & Pledge 1% at the Boston Foundation as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% ...
Atlassian founders plant seeds of expanding culture of giving
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...
Women Who Lead: Janine Sickmeyer, CEO of NextChapter
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...
Women Who Lead: Darine Pokawatana, Director of Product Development, Causecast
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...
Women Who Lead: Kate Bradley Chernis, Founder and CEO of Lately
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...
Susan Jones, COO & Co-founder, Care+Wear
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...
Women Who Lead: Gemma Sole, Co-founder and COO/CMO of Nineteenth Amendment
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 ...
Women Who Lead: Lynn Wood, Founder of IdeaSpies
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...
Taking the Pledge: Inside the Next Big Wave of Tech Philanthropy
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...
Women Who Lead: Alexandra Lindsay, hobbyDB
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 ...
Women Who Lead: Karen Lawson, CEO of Slingshot
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...
Tech.Co Takes the Pledge and Teams Up with Pledge 1% at SXSW Startup Night
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...
Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer
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 ...
Amplifinity Partners with Playworks in Pledge 1%
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% is recognized on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies for 2017
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...
Why Pledge 1% Is One Of The Most Innovative Companies Of 2017
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...
The 50 Best Workplaces for Giving Back
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...
Join RFPIO and Oregon Food Bank in the ROI of Compassion
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 ...
FinancialForce Celebrates Giving 1% of Time with FinancialForce4Good
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...
Small But Mighty: A Case for CSR at Small Businesses
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...
Vlocity and Salesforce Help Refugees Find H.O.M.E.
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...
Creating “Change” with Jason Grad, Bstow
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...
So you joined Pledge 1%, now what? A guide to implementing the program at work
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, ...
