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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
