Wilco Source, a CitiusTech Company
Wilco Source, a CitiusTech company, delivers Salesforce solutions that provide sustainable growth while solving immediate business challenges for healthcare and life sciences organizations. As a Salesforce Crest Partner, we provide strategic advisory, technical implementation, managed services, and more.
In 2022 and into 2023, Wilco Source, a CitiusTech company, will continue to take the Salesforce 1% Pledge. We commend Salesforce and all other participating organizations for their philanthropic contribution.
Beyond the 1% Pledge, Wilco Source intends to fill 20-30% of its outstanding positions via our Salesforce Career Nurturing Program. We aim to be leaders in the development of new talent, which benefits individuals driven toward opportunities within the Healthcare and Life Sciences Salesforce ecosystem.
In 2022, Wilco Source onboarded 34 interns who have been trained, coached, and supplied with a senior mentor in their chosen career path. These trainees’ backgrounds ranged from recent university graduates to experienced individuals in need of a career restart after the COVID-19 Pandemic. As of November, 2022, our nurturing teams have provided over 19,000 man-hours of focused learning and coaching. Each intern enters a 3-6 month One-on-One mentorship program, and each of them leaves with a better idea of their career path. By now, most of these individuals are Wilco Source employees providing value to the HLS community: 14 have become Salesforce Developers, 8 have become BSAs, and 9 have become QAs. (A 91% graduation and hiring rate.)
As the Wilco Source family grows into the new year, so do our plans of furthering this program. With the combined powers of Wilco Source and CitiusTech, we will continue to source, nurture, and onboard new talent to our Salesforce teams. Together with the 1% Pledge, Wilco Source and Salesforce will foster organizational and individual greatness.
Fidizzi
We are committed to helping our clients to maximize Salesforce investments.
The Serra da Estrela Natural Park is the largest protected area in Portugal, located in the central mountainous massif, in a high plateau that inclines towards the North-East, cut across by rivers and streams that have their source here such as the Mondego and Zêzere.
A state of Calamity was declared in Serra da Estrela as a result of over 28,000 hectares destroyed by wildfires since July 2022.
Fidizzi, a member of 1% Pledge, in partnership with Associação Veredas da Estrela will volunteer tomorrow in a soil stabilization action to contribute to the reforestation of Serra da Estrela.
Event Objectives:
Team Building;
Environmental Recovery Action;
Contribute To improving Our World;
Interaction Between Co-Workers;
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Vestaboard
Vestaboard is a beautiful messaging display that can be controlled from anywhere. It creates a focal point that enhances any setting every day and captures attention with a shared messaging experience.
At Vestaboard, we believe in fostering connections that support and inspire others. Vestaboard is a beautiful messaging display that can be controlled from anywhere. Vestaboard offers high-visibility messaging that brings people together and creates more inspiring environments. Through our giving program, Inspire Community, we donate one Vestaboard for every 100 sold.
Inspire Community recipient Britny Garcia uses Vestaboard in her middle school special education classroom to promote positive thinking and reward students who meet their goals. Her students love to see their names on Vestaboard, and she’s even had students bring in friends from other classes to see Vestaboard change to their names.
“What I appreciate most about Vestaboard is the ability to post a positive message each day that many of my students would not normally see or hear,” says Britny.
With only one whiteboard in the classroom, Vestaboard allows Britny to share a variety of messages with her students, changing multiple times per class period to display announcements, learning objectives, riddles, birthdays, and assignments. “The kids love the sound of the board changing and look forward to it every day,” Britny says.
Britny is one of more than fifty Inspire Community winners. Winners include teachers, non-profit organizations, and individuals who are making a difference in their communities. You can read more about Britny and other Inspire Community recipients here https://www.vestaboard.com/customer-stories/tag/inspire-community
If you’d like to nominate an organization or a person that inspires you, please submit this form here https://www.vestaboard.com/nominate
Digital Ocean
This year, DigitalOcean is using Giving Tuesday not only as a way to lift up our company and employee contributions but also as an opportunity to reflect on progress and prepare for the future of DO Impact.
Reflecting on a milestone year
The launch of DO Impact in April was both a celebration and a commitment to developing our strategy and programming as a Pledge 1% member. We’ve made meaningful headway since then, and though we are just getting started, we are excited to recognize some early progress from this year, including:
- $1M+ in total giving: Between product donations, cash grants, and employee giving, we committed more than $1M in 2022. And we know this is just the beginning—even through these challenging economic times, DigitalOcean will continue to prioritize philanthropy.
- A steady stream of product donations and nonprofit grants through Hollie’s Hub for Good (HH4G): In our first grant round, we focused on members within the HH4G community. In the most recent funding round—announced at our customer conference, deploy, in November—we focused on supporting the communities where most of our employees are geographically based, including New York, Denver, and Pakistan.
- Successful employee giving campaigns: At our twice-annual all-employee meeting (called Shark Day), we hosted a giving campaign that saw almost 70% participation across all employees. Our colleagues donated to and spotlighted dozens of nonprofits and volunteered their time to pack backpacks and write career cards for students. We’ve donated more than $400K this year to nonprofit organizations via our employee-giving platform, and we’ve created various funds to allow employees to respond to humanitarian crises and environmental disasters that happened throughout the year. We also empowered our employee resource groups (ERGs) with $20K each ($100K total) to select and contribute to organizations that best support and represent their communities.
- New partnerships and storytelling opportunities: We engaged with amazing partners like UNICEF and Fast Forward, helping catalyze and extend our reach to more tech-driven nonprofits worldwide. We held a workshop in Bolivia with Hollie’s Hub for Good recipient Unicodemy, where we helped young girls in La Paz learn how to use cloud technology. And we held our first panel session at our customer conference highlighting two incredible nonprofit partners, Code Berlin and Bonterra.
Being present in the giving season
Yesterday, we kicked off our second employee-giving campaign of the year, where our employees will compete in small challenges with their teams and raise money for causes they care about. DigitalOcean will be matching two dollars for every dollar contributed by employees through the end of the year. We hope it inspires our teams to support and share the organizations most important to them, all while expressing gratitude for their colleagues (with some friendly competition mixed in)!
Looking ahead to 2023 and beyond
As we begin to think about our plans for next year—and the future of DO Impact—we’re excited to lean into several areas, including: defining our strategy around signature philanthropic initiatives, creating more skills-based volunteering for our employees, evolving our product donation strategy to get DigitalOcean into the hands of even more nonprofits, engaging our increasingly global employee base, forging a sustainable path forward, and sharing these stories with the world. We hope you’ll join us on the journey!
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Hike2
We are a digital solutions consultancy focused on helping our clients become better companies for their customers. We help our customers unlock the potential of their organization, through technology, and all along their customers’ journey.
As a Pledge 1% member, HIKE2 finds a variety of ways to give back throughout the year, but we’re dedicating the month of November and GivingTuesday to Ronald McDonald House Charities, a nonprofit organization who creates programs and services that give families with sick children more tools to cope.
As part of our annual Innovation Summit conference which took place earlier this month, we accepted donations from attendees, collecting household pantry donations such as paper towels, trash bags, and canned goods in order to support families in the Pittsburgh area. Those in attendance at the Innovation Summit also had the opportunity to create handmade cards to be delivered with the donations.
Our team at HIKE2 also wanted to be sure that putting on an event such as this would not generate excess waste, so we also partnered with 412 Food Rescue. According to the organization, 40% of food that is produced ends up being wasted, despite the fact that 1 in 7 people goes hungry every day. On top of that, food waste generates the most toxic greenhouse gas in landfills. We prevented perfectly good food from going to waste by coordinating with 412 Food Rescue to pick up any of the leftover catered food at the end of each day of the event.
“We were so happy to find 412 Food Rescue to get the extra food from our conference to those in need. Instead of throwing it all in the trash, children in the area had food waiting for them when they got home from school that day,” explained Kimberly Chickini, Business Operations Support at HIKE2.
“We really appreciate all of our attendees and employees who have helped with our support of our local Ronald McDonald House Charities this month,” said HIKE2 Principal Amanda Wodzenski. It has been a foundational element of our company to give back to our community and support our employees to be a force for good. We couldn’t be more proud of the whole team.”
Study.com
Study.com is a leading online education platform that provides academic support for over 30 million learners and educators a month. Recognized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for meeting Level IV evidence standards for improving K12 learning outcomes, Study.com provides concise and compelling digital content that spans K12, higher education and professional test prep.
At Study.com, we have an unwavering commitment to making education accessible for underserved learners, non-traditional students, and educators. With over $27m donated across our various social impact programs and a philanthropic commitment to Pledge 1%, all our contributions focus on increasing access and equity in education. Our Keys to the Classroom program is the pinnacle of this vision.
Nationally, 50% of teacher candidates fail the PRAXIS, a common teacher certification exam, on the first try and a quarter never pass. These pass rates disproportionately affect people of color, with 38% of Black candidates never passing. Keys to the Classroom aims to combat the teacher shortage around the nation and to increase the diversity of America’s teacher pipeline by helping future educators prepare for and pass their teacher certification exams, such as the PRAXIS.
How it works: We donate licenses for our test preparation software to partners – school districts, colleges and universities, and education nonprofits – who then distribute those licenses to aspiring teachers preparing for testing. Keys to the Classroom is active across 16 states, including Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, California, Vermont, Tennessee, and more.
Why it matters: Students of color represent over half of the school population, yet the national teaching corps is largely white—only 19% of teachers identify as people of color. Representation in the classroom is critical, as studies show students are more likely to succeed and face reduced rates of exclusionary discipline when paired with a teacher of the same race or ethnicity.
“Keys to the Classroom seeks to reduce testing barriers so educators of all backgrounds and ethnicities can access the teaching profession,” said Dana Bryson, senior vice president of social impact at Study.com. “Teacher certification exams often prevent otherwise qualified teachers from being able to reach the classroom. We need to ensure aspiring educators have the tools they need to reach and succeed in the classroom.”
By the numbers:
Since our program launched a year ago, we’re proud to share that Keys to the Classroom reports:
- Donations totaling $4m in test prep materials
- 23 programs across 16 states
- Hundreds of teacher cadets enrolled nationwide, including 50% who identify as people of color. Over a third identify as Black, which is 5x higher than the national teaching corps representation
- 92% of teachers who use Study.com to prepare for their licensure exam report passing
In the words of Marcella Wine-Snyder of the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement (CERRA) in South Carolina, “This first-of-its-kind partnership with Study.com will provide opportunities and access that mitigate educational disparities and accelerate the certification process for many prospective teachers.”
Rock Content
Rock Content creates innovative marketing solutions and services designed to build content experiences at scale. We help brands drive revenues and build awareness by: Unleashing collaboration, Connecting marketers with a global network, Delivering premium brand and content experiences
The Rock ‘n’ Grow program was implemented in February 2021, starting from the launch on our official channels and opening of the application form.
The Rock ‘n’ Grow program emerged as a result of a specific action carried out by Rock Content in the initial period of the pandemic — when we released some Premium courses from Rock University, our education platform, free of charge for people who wanted to train themselves in matters related to marketing digital in the face of uncertainty in the labor market. However, this was an isolated action, not a project in itself.
Based on the results we had with the initiative, we decided to launch in 2021 an education program for people from socially underrepresented and economically vulnerable groups.
With the specific action during the beginning of the pandemic, we reached more than 30,000 students interested in our content. In addition, at certain times, we found several selection processes requesting Rock Content courses in the curriculum.
Faced with this scenario, and understanding the reality of most Brazilians (where it is not possible to prioritize vocational education while other basic needs are not met), the Social Impact, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team understood that it was time to go beyond assistance and to create a structured initiative with a scalable and long-term impact that would actually transform the democratized access to quality content for underrepresented people throughout Brazil.
Together with the Rock University and Business Enablement teams, we developed: creation of the registration form, integration for automatic release of access within our platforms and communication strategies and monitoring of donated courses.
From these processes, Rock ’n’ Grow became our main education program for the external community, which offers online training with 100% scholarships in paid and/or exclusive courses at Rock University. The project is aimed at people from socially underrepresented and economically vulnerable groups who have a monthly family income of up to 4,000 BRL.
To increase opportunities for decent work and economic growth, we join efforts to promote quality education in a more democratic way through our courses and professionals.
The initiative is aimed at developing relevant and valued skills in the market, focusing on four main areas: digital marketing, social media, sales and customer success. In addition to developing techniques to be used in professional life, the courses offer certificates to be used in the curriculum, LinkedIn and in other strategic ways by the student.
The program (as well as all of Rock Content’s Social Impact initiatives) is linked to four UN Sustainable Development Goals: quality education, reducing inequalities, gender equality, decent work and economic growth.
The Rock ‘n’ Grow program was innovative in transforming a one-off action initiated during the pandemic into a scalable, long-term impact program. In addition, we understand that we can be much more efficient in the impact we generate, by connecting our impact objective with the business objective. So we decided to pair one of our products (Rock University) with an opportunity to improve the state of the world.
Rock is one of the only Brazilian companies that is formally part of the network of global companies that are part of the Pledge 1% movement, which encourages companies to donate 1% of product, time, equity or profit for social impact. 1% volunteer work hours, 1% equity and product with Rock University.
Another point of innovation is in the content of the courses, which address skills that are increasingly needed by the job market. For example, social media and digital marketing.
As Rock Content is a leading company in this segment, we offer high-value, credible and up-to-date content on the topics. Thus, we support people who, for social and financial reasons, do not have access to this type of professional training.
As we see as the program progresses, the courses are useful for people in any professional field and career; whether for the formal market, acting as a freelancer, small entrepreneurs, among others.
The Rock ‘n’ Grow program continues in 2022. Now, with new exclusive courses focused on Social Media and SEO being released to people from socially underrepresented and economically vulnerable groups, who have a monthly family income of up to 4 thousand reais.
In 2021, our results were:
- 77,288 paid courses donated
- 19,322 students with scholarships at Rock University
- 13,462 certificates issued to these students
- 73% of respondents to our survey indicated that there has been a change in their living conditions.
The initiative generates a large-scale and long-term impact, since knowledge is a resource that is not lost and can be used on several fronts: from volunteer work to professional life and managing their own businesses.
In addition, we understand that the impact generated by the initiative can transform the lives of the beneficiaries.
In 2021, two people from socially underrepresented groups were hired at Rock Content after they participated in the Rock ‘n’ Grow program. There are also several other testimonials from program participants who won internships, promotions or even increased the number of sales of the enterprise itself.
Leadership support in this initiative is mainly given through example and commitment to donate 1% of our product, equity and working time to Impacto Social; as well as monitoring, analyzing and revising the strategies and results of this and other actions on a regular basis, always encouraging the search for an even greater and more lasting social impact.
The Rock ‘n’ Grow practice was developed to positively impact socially underrepresented and economically vulnerable groups with a family income of up to 4,000 reais a month. In this sense, the social and financial aspects are our first point of intersectionality.
In addition, we carried out special actions and partnerships that helped us to bring this education program to more people from intersectional groups.
On commemorative and struggle dates — for example, Women’s Day, LGBTQIAP+ Pride Month, Black Consciousness Month, and others, we release courses for any people participating in the underrepresented group related to the date, without the income requirement . In our data, we were able to perceive that such actions and partnerships provided adhesion of people who are part of two or more socially underrepresented groups.
The practice was developed by the leader of the Social Impact, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, Gabriela Crego (cis woman); Luana Dias (as a cis woman, with a disability and part of the LGBTQIAP+ community); and had the support of other collaborators, mostly women, and the vice president of the People area (a black cis woman).
In addition, during implementation, we spoke with partners from underrepresented groups, such as the LGBTQIAP+ community, people with disabilities and others, to hear their perception and feedback regarding creating value and promoting inclusion for people from these groups through our education program.
The practice was developed by the Social Impact, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, together with collaborators from the Rock University, Marketing and Business Enablement teams. In addition, Rock Content’s Social Impact Multipliers group, formed at the time by employees from Customer Success and Product & Engineering, also participated in the development and implementation of the initiative.
Read more in their Social Impact Report.
ADAPTOVATE
We are global management consulting company that provides services to global organizations in improving their ways of working by adopting new methodologies and growth mindsets.
http://www.adaptovate.com or https://www.adaptovate.com/pledge-1-percent/
ADAPTOVATE had the pleasure of working with Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) as part of its Pledge 1% program to uplift communities with our time and expertise. HOLA is a local non-profit organization that aims to “give underserved kids an equal chance to succeed through a comprehensive array of programs,” and currently serves 100+ Los Angeles high school students &190 alumni attending postsecondary educational opportunities. Their College & Career Success (C&CS) Team, a team of seven members, was looking to achieve the following goals to provide greater impact for it’s community of students, mentors, partnerships, and stakeholders:
- Improve alignment on priorities, transparency of work, and clarity of roles
- Ensure clear expectations, efficient communication, and collective team norms
- Establish a regular cadence for effective planning, reflection, and prioritization
Our Approach
Over three months, ADAPTOVATE team members engaged in a variety of discovery activities and workshops, including:
- Conducted surveys, 1:1 meetings, and full-team working sessions to understand the C&CS team’s current state, individual roles & responsibilities, and identify challenges
- Facilitated a North Star workshop to realign the C&CS team on their aspirational vision, prioritize their desired outcomes, and document their top priorities in the form of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Delivered training on a new tool (Trello) to visually track & assign work to improve transparency amongst team members
- Coached the team through a Team Norms workshop to clarify roles & responsibilities and establish cadences & team behaviors to uplift team dynamics and ways of working
Post Engagement Outcomes & Thinking Forward
As a result of the engagement, the C&CS team reported the following benefits:
- +50% increase in alignment to vision and priorities
- +46% increase in alignment to team norms
- +37% increase in identifying as a high-performing team
“The excitement about our team’s potential truly restored energy and motivation back into our team as we were beginning to experience burnout. Aligning our goals and getting clarity on our mission truly helped us to identify how to perform in an efficient and high performing way. This experience helped to build confidence back into our team and was the fresh air we needed.” – Director of HOLA College & Career Success
To learn more about Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and the transformative work they do in the city of Los Angeles, visit their website here. To donate to the organization, visit their donations page here.
To learn more about the global Pledge 1% initiative and how to get your organization involved, click here.
Atrium
Atrium is a next-generation consulting services company that helps organizations across diverse industries deliver on the promise of analytics and AI. As the market leader in data-driven CRM and analytics solutions, we help organizations make smarter decisions.
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), commonly referred to as Habitat for Humanity, is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve their homes with a focus on affordable housing to strengthen and stabilize communities around the world. With affiliates in all 50 states and 70 countries, HFHI has helped over 39 million people access safe, attainable housing.
While most interactions with the organization’s more than 1,000 affiliates occur in Salesforce, a combination of tools didn’t provide their team an all-encompassing overview that was automatically updated and easily accessible. HFHI needed to be able to monitor affiliate health in each location and overall, particularly to identify and monitor affiliates that may require more support and ideally grow to predict potential issues before they arise.
As part of Cultivate, Atrium’s social good program exclusively dedicated to donating time and expertise to nonprofit customers and charitable organizations, the Atrium team worked with HFHI to define their use cases, build out a project plan, and ultimately make better use of their existing Salesforce investment.
Within CRM Analytics, HFHI’s Salesforce-based analytics solution, the Atrium team combined HFHI’s different datasets and capabilities and provided employees and management an accurate, consolidated view into affiliate health. The organization can now see which affiliates are doing well and which may need more resources or structural help. Having a single source of truth enables HFHI to break down data and communication silos internally and deepen their use of analytics to better support their affiliates. HFHI has more accurate, comprehensive insight into patterns of affiliate health, allowing them to be more efficient in managing relationships with their affiliates and make more informed decisions.