Written by Sarah Goff-Dupont. Originally published on the Atlassian blog. If 1 in 10 companies shared a business practice in common, would you sit up and take note? If the number moved to 1 in 5, would you think seriously about following suit? What about 1 in 4? That’s exactly the trajectory of one of [...]
Originally published on the Geopointe blog. How Geopointe, Salesforce & Pledge 1% are Making a Difference Geopointe is excited to once again be joining Salesforce and Pledge 1% in their efforts to give back at Dreamforce. Geopointe has committed to donate $1 to the American Red Cross for every event ID badge scanned by a Geopointe team [...]
September 12, 2018 - Forbes The Cloud 100, the definitive list of the 100 top private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks, announced today that Slack, the cloud-based collaboration company, has received the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award. For the past three years, Forbes has recognized [...]
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180830005231/en/Box-Announces-International-Rescue-Committee-BoxWorks-2018 Nine additional nonprofits named as Box.org Fund Grant Recipients August 30, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at BoxWorks 2018, Box, Inc.(NYSE:BOX),a leader in cloud content management, announced the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Think of Us as its BoxWorks 2018 Social Impact Partners. The company also announced nine additional Box.org Fund grant recipients. “We are incredibly excited to honor the IRC and Think of [...]
https://slackhq.com/next-chapter-a-pilot-program-aiming-to-help-formerly-incarcerated-individuals-find-work-and-succeed-in-tech?sf92006829=1 “By a show of hands, how many of you in here have made a bad choice,” said Kenyatta Leal to a packed all-hands meeting at Slack HQ. The question, echoing the core of Bryan Stevenson’s moving biography Just Mercy, was met by a sea of hands raised high. “Now, I want you to imagine just for a second [...]
https://prwire.com.au/pr/78989/cashrewards-reaches-au-1-billion-milestone-in-australia Over $1 billion dollars in revenue generated for retail partners since launch in 2014 Over $43 million savings generated for 420,000 CASHREWARDS members Sydney 29 August 2018. CASHREWARDS, Australia’s largest Cashback website, today announces that it has generated over AU$1 billion in revenue for its growing list of retail partners since the company was [...]
https://prwire.com.au/pr/78945/on-national-dog-day-cashrewards-along-with-partners-pet-circle-and-petbarn-are-getting-involved-in-spreading-the-word This Sunday 26 August is National Dog Day and CASHREWARDS wants to use this opportunity to raise awareness and support dog welfare by donating as much as they can to The Vanderpump Dog Foundation, a dog rescue organization, founded in 2016 working on the international front to help create a better world for dogs [...]
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/18/08/p12206799/scaled-agile-donates-175-000-and-250-volunteer-hours-to-local-nonprofi Andrea Korte, Enterprise Solutions representative at Boulder-based Scaled Agile, Inc., tends to one of the horses used for Equine Assisted Therapy at the Rocky Mountain Riding Therapy Center during Scaled Agile's recent Day of Service for Pledge 1% Colorado. Korte was one of more than 50 Scaled Agile employees who volunteered to support Scaled Agile's commitment to [...]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, August 14, 2018 – Coleman Insights announced today that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement inspiring companies of all sizes to integrate giving into the DNA of their business. Over 1,500 companies in 40 countries have joined the movement. As a Pledge 1% member, Coleman Insights will donate one percent [...]
Originally published on Medium. BlockMesh is on a mission to connect the unconnected through a decentralized, cost-free communications network. For the past four weeks, we’ve been busy working on our hardware and have also been invited to the MEST Africa Summit and RISE Technology Conference. Our hardware solutions are integral in seeing our mission fulfilled, read more about [...]