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] [...]
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 [...]
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 of corporate philanthropy the Pledge 1% campaign is dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business and integrating philanthropy into business [...]
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 Industrial Revolution. According to Professor Klaus Schwab - founder and Chief Executive of the WEF - we’re on the cusp of this revolution, where technology will have [...]
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 about corporate philanthropy and keen to make giving-back a core part of their company culture. “By participating in Pledge 1%, you will be acting as an accelerant for a number of [...]
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 industry I’ve never experienced so much innovation, and at such an incredibly rapid pace. Tectonic changes sparked by cloud, social, mobile, data [...]
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 public offerings to endow new charitable ventures. Tech entrepreneurs say they hope to place corporate giving, once a personal matter for executives or a peripheral project for [...]
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 world, has garnered support from over 500 companies in its first year. The corporate philanthropy movement founded by Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado, Rally [...]
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 to affect change. On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, celebrated the birth of their daughter by saying [...]
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 leaders in corporate philanthropy circles say bigger companies find it even harder to make charity part of their business model, as investors have other priorities. [...]