Originally published on New Voice Media's blog. Endure24 is dubbed the Glastonbury for runners. It draws together around 3,000 weirdos, like me, from all walks of life to spend 24 hours of their lives running multiple five mile (8k) laps of a course in Wasing Park near Aldermaston which is situated just outside of Basingstoke. [...]
By Laura Anderson, originally published on the K15t Sotfware blog. Trash belongs in garbage bins – a statement we probably all agree on. Sadly, beautiful places, such as forest trails, meant for everyone's enjoyment and recreation end up being littered with plastic bags, empty bottles, and lots of cigarette butts. In order to help clean [...]
By Dan McConvey, Development and Partnerships Associate, The Boston Foundation. Originally shared on The Boston Foundation's blog. Pranam Lipinski was born and raised in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts in the town of Adams. While attending Endicott College as a business major, he co-founded the college’s Investment Club. It was through founding that club that [...]
By Anna Hendry, originally posted on Inside the Salesforce Ecosystem. “The business of business is improving the state of the world.” These words from CEO Marc Benioff serve as the guiding principle for the impact Salesforce wants to have on our community. And they describe why, when Salesforce was founded in 1999, the leadership team [...]
An interview with Ida Lucente of John Snow Labs. Data is a commodity. The data collected by pharmaceutical companies from drug testing, retailers from shoppers, telephone carriers from mobile devices — all that information is valuable. What’s more, the amount of data is astronomical, as is the potential the inherent insight holds; that is, if [...]
By Sean Dukes, Owner and CEO of Learnsmarter. Originally published on Medium. The first time I heard about 1:1:1, the Salesforce philanthropy model, was at Dreamforce Europe 2008. Back then, Salesforce’s visit to London was a two-day event, held at the Barbican Centre. I discovered several interesting things during those two days (including ‘Platform as [...]
Originally published by Tim Smith, Director of Innovation Partnerships and Pledge 1% Boston on the Boston Foundation blog. Brendan Ciecko is the founder of Cuseum, and a proud early member of Pledge 1% Boston. Growing up in Massachusetts, he got his entrepreneurial start as a teenager and has always been dedicated to making our region more vibrant [...]
Originally published in The Australian. When Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar was in his 20s, he and his girlfriend made a four-hour trip from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to visit a school. Farquhar had been inspired to visit the school after reading a book by former Microsoft executive John Wood called Leaving Microsoft to Change [...]
To read the original article, visit Fortune Magazine. Photo credit: Duy Ho Photography. It might be common for corporations to make charitable donations. But a few companies go above and beyond with their philanthropic work, with initiatives like food drives, cancer walks, and even volunteer bonuses. Fortune partner Great Place to Work combed through more than [...]
Originally published on the RFPIO blog. There’s no better way to ring in the new year than by inspiring others to give. As a local company, RFPIO understands the importance of community. Now they are paying it forward in a different way. To kick off 2017, the RFPIO team is giving back to our amazing community [...]