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 individuals and companies to pledge 1% of equity, product, and employee time for their communities.” Co-founder and Rally Software CTO Ryan Martens joins host Steve Boland to [...]
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 demand warrantless access to Internet users’ complete browsing history, online purchases and who they communicate with. In other tech and policy news, the House is considering changes to [...]
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 story. These are the stocks for playing climate change As a summit on climate change takes place in Paris, banks are thinking about the [...]
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, some might be skeptical of pleas or philanthropic touts from tech companies, which have an inconsistent reputation for philanthropy. But Pledge 1%, a year-old corporate philanthropy movement, [...]
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, more than 3,500 members have joined the program from more than 85 countries. And we’re just getting started. To coincide with this milestone, the [...]
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-growth emerging companies around the world to build philanthropy into their business. We’ve had an unbelievable year — hundreds companies have already pledged 1% of their equity, profit, product or employee time back [...]
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 series dedicated to increasing the flow of capital toward social good, SOCAP brings together impact investors, global innovators, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs for a [...]
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-corporate-giving.html?ref=giving
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 skyline. This is the new headquarters of Salesforce, the cloud computing company that was founded by Marc Benioff in 1999 and has since exploded at startling speed. [...]
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 corporate investment group, Salesforce Ventures, whose portfolio includes more than 150 start-ups, such as CartoDB, CloudSense, Cloud9 IDE, NewVoiceMedia, Qubit, Universal Avenue and YOUR [...]