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Celebrating 1,000 Pledges!
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 resources to give back to their communities. Today, we are excited to announce an exciting milestone—1,000 companies in 30 countries have joined Pledge [...]
#PledgeItForward and Get a FREE Campaign T-shirt!
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 recruits a new pledge in these next two weeks will receive a free #PledgeItForward t-shirt. Pretty cool, right? Let's get out [...]
3 Quick (and easy!) Steps to #PledgeItForward
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 Potential Pledge Founders and companies—big and small—are welcome to join our community! Here are some ideas for people you can ask: [...]
The Salesforce Do-Good Legacy
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 few information technology companies made the list. I wasn't surprised, however, by the inclusion of cloud software giant Salesforce. Philanthropy was baked into Salesforce's [...]
New Leaders for Sempervirens Fund and Pledge 1%
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 innovation at the international crowdfunding website Indiegogo, was named chief executive of Pledge 1%, which encourages businesses and individuals to pledge 1 percent of equity, product, or [...]
Pledge 1% Announces Amy Lesnick as Chief Executive and President to Grow and Scale Corporate Philanthropy Movement
Pledge 1% also joins Tides as a special strategic initiative to expand global reach 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 organization as its first chief executive and president. Pledge 1% also announced [...]
Pledge 1% Program Celebrates One Year Anniversary: Welcoming Australian & New Zealand Companies to Pledge 1%
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 making the world a better place. It encourages and challenges individuals and companies to pledge 1% of time, equity, product or profit to improve their communities — [...]
Move over casual Fridays, millennials have a new badge for tech cool
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 a program backed by salesforce.com are on their way: they've signed up more than 600 businesses in the past 18 months. "We're maybe 12 months away from [start-ups] [...]
Corporate philanthropy programme helps companies donate 1%
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 around the world, launched in the UK this month. Pledge 1% is spearheaded by Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado, Rally for Impact, Salesforce.org and Tides and aims to help [...]