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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Chris Player. Originally published on ARN. The Pledge 1% campaign
that encourages companies to dedicate 1 per cent of employee time,
equity, product or profit to improve communities around the worl...
By Terry Collins. Originally published on CNET. Silicon Valley is giving
more than ever before. In a culture with a reputation for being selfish,
some tech heavyweights are using their clout and money...
By Joe Garofoli. Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Few entrepreneurs focus on charitable giving when they are building
their companies — mere survival is a much bigger concern. But ...
By Carolyn Said. Originally published on SF Gate. Ever since receiving
cochlear implants 15 years ago at age 12, Caroline Clark has wanted to
help other hearing-impaired people. She started a foundati...
By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. First we had Black
Friday, then Small Business Saturday, and then Cyber Monday. So after a
long weekend of spending money on ourselves and loved ones...
Originally published on Next in Nonprofits. Pledge 1% “is a corporate
philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key
stakeholder in every business. Pledge 1% encourages and challenges
i...
By Levi Sumagaysay. Originally published on SiliconBeat. Here’s what’s
on the Tuesday menu. A court document released Monday shows what NSLs
are good for: The FBI uses national security letters to dem...
By Mark Hubert. Originally published on MarketWatch. Mark Hulbert
discusses the growth expectations imbedded in Amazon.com’s current stock
pick and how likely it is that they will be met. See full sto...
By Therese Poletti. Originally published on MarketWatch. As
#GivingTuesday donation pleas flood social networks and in-boxes today
in a worldwide effort to raise attention and funding for nonprofits,
...
By Ludovic Ulrich. Originally published on the Salesforce blog. Last
year, Salesforce for Startups launched globally with the mission to
empower startups to build, grow and give back. In that time, mo...
Originally published on Medium. Last year on #GivingTuesday,
Salesforce.org, along with Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of
Colorado and Rally, launched Pledge 1%: a movement to encourage
high-grow...
By Ryan Scott. Originally published on Forbes. Attending SOCAP15, the
recent Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco, was one of
the highlights of my year. A world-renowned conference serie...
By Quentin Hardy. Originally published in The New York Times. To view
the full article, visit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/giving/marc-benioff-salesforce-chief-on-the-strategic-benefits-of-corp...
By Gillian Tett. Originally published in the Financial Times. If you are
strolling around downtown San Francisco these days you might notice an
imposing superstructure springing up, changing the skyli...
By Caroline Preece. Originally published on CloudPro. Salesforce has set
aside a $100 million fund to pour cash into European start-ups. The
money will be allocated by the SaaS giant's global corporat...
By Naomi Morenzoni. Originally published on Medium. Any veteran of
Dreamforce knows that our community gives back in a big way. This year
was no exception with 1 million books donated to libraries and...
By Drew Olanoff. Originally published on TechCrunch. Disrupt SF started
off with a bang this morning with a fireside chat including Ron and
Topher Conway, both investors with SV Angel. TechCrunch foun...
Originally published in the Independent Ireland. Suzanne DiBianca is at
the pointy end of making companies less evil. There’s a real push –
particularly in the technology sector – to use the wealth cr...
By David Swan. Published in the Australian. Global cloud computing firm
Salesforce may be a $US10 billion tech behemoth but its head of start-up
relations Ludo Ulrich says his door is always open to A...
By Kye White. Originally published in StartUpSmart. The Pledge 1%
philanthropy program, created by Salesforce and supported by the likes
of Atlassian, is well on the way of meeting the goal it set lat...
By Ken Yeung. Originally published on VentureBeat. Telecommunications
API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of
its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, ...
By David Callahan. Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. If
you’re attuned to either corporate philanthropy or the tech industry,
you’ll know that the Bay Area tech firm, Salesforce, is unusual...