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Did you know that Cardiovascular diseases are the number 1 cause of death globally? 17.9 million people die each year from heart disease, an estimated 31% of all deaths worldwide. Source: World Health Organization
These statistics are staggering but fortunately most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioral risk factors.
September 2020 was “Global Heart Health and Wellness month” at Atlassian.
Throughout the month of September, Atlassian partnered with leading cardiovascular research non-profits around the world to learn about research breakthroughs and healthy ways of living, continue ongoing skilled volunteering and raise funds.
On September 25, the month culminated in a virtual walk for Atlassians across the globe.
Educational sessions included “Busting the Myths of Heart Disease”, “Love Your Heart Webinar”, “Infant CPR and Safety Session” and “Blockbuster breakthroughs – how spider venom and Vegemite could save lives”.
Skilled volunteering projects being undertaken by Atlassians include assistance with the data management and analysis of human genome data, the building of a heart health check app and video animation support for heart health explainer videos.
Organizations supported were American Heart Association, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Nederlandse Hartstichting, Narayana Health and the Junior Chamber Philippines – Got Heart? Initiative
More than 1,500 Atlassians participated in Heart Health and Wellness Month and donations totalled more than USD100,000.
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Procore.org 2020 Year in Review
Procore is a leading provider of construction management software with a mission to improve the lives of everyone in construction. Built in collaboration with construction professionals, we felt compelled to deepen our commitment to that vision and started Procore.org in 2017 The goal: to help advance the construction industry through advocacy, education, and technology. Today, Procore.org donates free access and training to 500+ nonprofit builders, construction educators, and union training centers.
2020 has been a difficult year for many, yet through it all, Procore.org continued to vigorously support investing in our communities to strengthen our collective power to enact positive change.
Activating employee volunteerism
At our annual Revenue Summit event in February, Procore employees continued the tradition of giving back to the community by assembling more than 825 water filters with the nonprofit organization Wine To Water.
The filters will produce approximately 1,505,625 gallons of clean water every year for communities in underserved areas, including refugee camps and disaster zones.
Supporting construction activity through COVID-19
Procore.org isn’t just about everyone in construction, but also everyone affected by construction—the families and communities the industry serves. While continuing to monitor the progress of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Procore provided support to employees, customers, and partners, through initiatives including product donation for COVID-19 emergency relief project builds.
Several of Procore.org’s 200 nonprofit partners, who use their free access to the Procore platform to build for communities in need and rebuild for those impacted by disaster, expanded service capabilities in the face of COVID-19.
“Procore has made the difference when it comes to keeping construction projects going and on time,” said John Fowler, President & CEO of Peoples’ Self-Help Housing. “This not only keeps the investors happy, but we are providing new houses during COVID-19 to the people that need them.”
Educating the next generation of construction professionals
The Procore.org University program provides Procore’s platform, implementation, and support services free of charge to universities representing over 30,000 students in 10 countries. Nelson Mandela University is a leading construction management university in South Africa that is going beyond the classroom to teach their students practical applications of software like Procore in the field.
Helping everyone in the workforce advance their careers
Procore’s Continuing Education program has tracked the completion of over 54,000 free, on-demand continuing education courses and was voted Corporate Vision’s Best Construction Professional Development Provider in 2020.
Stewart Smits, Vice President and Project Manager for Inland Builders, has completed an astounding 206 Procore Continuing Education courses. “That changed my life. It really did,” Smits said. “It changed my management style. It changed my ability to quickly train others and have the resources right there, right at my fingertips.”
Driving conversations around promoting a diverse workforce
In 2020, we launched a community group for supporters of the advancement of Women in Construction, a pillar of our Advocacy Program. Our network of industry thought leaders continue to play key roles in driving change through our inclusion and diversity initiatives, by participating in webinar series at Procore and beyond.
Procore.org is a natural and holistic extension of Procore’s vision, mission, and strategy with a reach far beyond just the construction industry. Elevating the construction industry through education and access to technology will advance construction and have a positive impact on the people and communities the industry serves. We are proud to partner with hundreds of organizations that share our vision to improve the lives of everyone in construction and formalized our dedication to social impact by joining the Pledge 1% movement in 2019. We’re honored to have been recognized with the Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Award later that year.
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2020 will be remembered as a year of transition and awakening – from the social movements that have emerged at the forefront of today’s purpose-driven culture, to the virtual world that we all have been forced to adapt to during COVID-19. At Pledgeling, our mission to make charitable giving easier for anyone, anywhere has empowered us to evolve during this unprecedented time to design & embrace new ways of giving. Our most recent partnership launch with Zoom as their official charitable giving partner exemplifies how the world is reimagining opportunities to give back and demonstrating that the future of philanthropy is now.
In October 2020 at Zoom’s virtual Zoomtopia conference, Zoom founder & CEO Eric Yuan introduced the ability to donate through Zoom for the first time, powered by Pledgeling. Our partnership ushers in a new era of philanthropy by making it easy for Zoom users to fundraise seamlessly within their Zoom events and choose from over two million organizations to support, including every 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the US and hundreds of thousands of verified international charities.
There are two ways that Zoom users can turn their virtual events into fundraisers for causes they care about.
First, our free app Donations by Pledgeling in the Zoom App Marketplace transforms any Zoom meeting or webinar into a real-time fundraiser, featuring dynamic overlays that include live calls to action, a donation tracker, and donations as they are made.
Second, Pledgeling teamed up with Zoom to launch charitable donations on OnZoom, Zoom’s one-of-a-kind, new, online event platform. Currently in beta and offered only in the US, hosts of OnZoom events can give back through charitable donations seamlessly embedded into their online events.
For both integrations, Pledgeling makes donations easy for everyone by handling everything on the backend, from processing and disbursing donations to the beneficiary organizations, to issuing immediate donation receipts for tax purposes.
“The opportunity to engage our global community by making a real difference is squarely aligned with our mission here at Zoom to deliver happiness. Through this collaboration with Pledgeling, Zoom delivers happiness in one of the most personal ways – supporting the causes and organizations worldwide that people truly care about, both locally and globally,” said Zoom Chief Marketing Officer Janine Pelosi. “As charities search for new avenues for fundraising, Pledgeling opens up new pathways toward world-changing impact, delivering a virtual solution that is both free and scalable.”
Today on Giving Tuesday, you’re invited to see our partnership in action by joining us for a special OnZoom superhero #Zoomsgiving party hosted by Pledgeling & Worthy of Love from 3:00-4:00pm PST. It’s free to register and donations will benefit Worthy of Love’s mission to bring hope to homeless children by throwing incredible birthday celebrations for them every month since January 2013.
Today’s event will be no exception, with special guests Wonder Woman and Captain America making an appearance! As more families are experiencing homelessness than ever before, Worthy of Love is expanding its mission and reach to every major city in the US to impact as many families as possible in 2021. Today’s inaugural virtual family FUNdraiser will build the foundation for their biggest party year ever. Come learn the superhero power of giving back!
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Project Sunshine is an international nonprofit that partners with medical facilities to help pediatric patients feel like the kids and teens they are during the course of their treatment. Their programming supports patients and families by providing opportunities for play and authentic engagement with a network of trained volunteers.
We made giving back a fundamental part of our Silverline Cares initiative by partnering with Project Sunshine. And when the COVID-19 pandemic forced their volunteer and patient interactions to go virtual, we jumped in to help them coordinate their efforts.
Since Project Sunshine was already using Salesforce to manage volunteers, donations, donor information, and grants, it only made sense to double down with Silverline’s CalendarAnything application.
The challenge: scheduling hundreds of volunteers
Project Sunshine already had their work cut out for them when it came to scheduling volunteers. Each chapter works with a specific hospital partner, in groups that vary from 30 to 70. Smaller groups of 5-7 volunteers would coordinate visits directly with the hospital, sending emails between one another and collecting RSVPs in spreadsheets.
This kind of back-and-forth took a lot of administrative effort on the part of the chapter leaders, but also for Volunteer Engagement Director Kaitlin Garzia. Garzia helps organize patient visits, but also works to train volunteers and monitors how the programs are doing within each hospital.
After COVID-19 hit, Project Sunshine took their volunteer efforts virtual, creating a program called TelePlay, where volunteers play trivia, bingo, and other fun word games over Zoom. Since anyone can dial in from anywhere in the country to participate, things got complicated pretty quickly. She knew that there had to be a better way to organize everything.
“We started thinking about this in late March,” she said. “What we’ve done over the past six months is develop this new program that brings together small groups of patients and families, using trained volunteers to facilitate programs. We needed a way to streamline everything.”
Coordinating with ease
Silverline helped Project Sunshine implement CalendarAnything, a Salesforce application that allows users to create easy-to-use customized calendars. Patients and volunteers alike can find open slots for upcoming Zoom sessions and RSVP directly within Salesforce.
The team uses CalendarAnything in two ways:
Training effective volunteers
“Every volunteer gets trained, so we have multiple training sessions across national chapters and time zones,” said Garzia. “CalendarAnything is way more seamless, and it saves Project Sunshine a lot of time creating sessions.”
In addition to standard training sessions, using CalendarAnything gave Garzia and her team the flexibility they needed to meet volunteer needs, particularly now that everything was going virtual. She started running office hours for lead volunteers to answer questions as they came up, making it more accessible for everyone as they’re not only learning how to engage with patients effectively, but also how to use new technology to do so.
By consolidating everything in Salesforce, Project Sunshine also has a record of each volunteer, noting which sessions they’ve attended and what additional training they need. Meanwhile, volunteers can access RSVP information and input any session feedback directly into the database, making the program much more transparent.
“Not only has it made it easier to schedule things, it’s also given us more flexibility,” said Garzia. “We need volunteers to report [attendance], and before, we just had to depend on them to go in and make a report. Now, with CalendarAnything, it’s much easier to just generate it.”
The more quickly volunteers get up to speed, the easier it is to focus on what matters: bringing joy and a sense of normalcy to pediatric patients.
Giving patients easy access to play
CalendarAnything makes it easier for patients, too.
Because the majority of patients are minors, before any patient attends a Zoom session, Project Sunshine has to collect a consent form signed by the parent or guardian. Now, chapter volunteers can double check that they have the right forms from any patient in the system in real-time.
“It’s allowing us to streamline our processes and make it easier for the volunteers, but also to be able to have a
more direct line to patients and families,” said Garzia. “It allows us to have more direct contact with patients while complying with HIPAA regulations.”
Now volunteers can log into Salesforce directly and add upcoming program sessions onto the calendar, generate their Zoom link, and add capacity for the number of attendees at a particular session. When patients log in, they can easily see all the available games and options that suit their schedule.
“Now we can collect the number of registrants and attendees, which is critical to the success of the program.” said Garzia.
“It’s not back-and-forth in personal emails anymore.”
Not only does this help patients, but it gives the Project Sunshine team more insight into what programs resonate the most with patients and families, so they can tweak their offerings accordingly.
“It’s a whole new world for us,” said Garzia. “It’s all in Salesforce, so I have more insight into what programs are happening that I never had before. Reporting is so much easier and more streamlined.”
Bringing a little bit of sunshine to patients, even when meeting virtually
All of this makes it easier for Project Sunshine to focus on what matters: patients.
Adding CalendarAnything to their existing Salesforce implementation streamlined their various efforts and lifted the administrative burden off of volunteers and staff members. Every piece of information they need is all in one place, so whether it’s volunteers looking for training sessions or patients looking to add a bit of play into their day, everyone knows where to go.
“The different levels of how our system is organized makes it complicated,” said Garzia. “It was such a pleasure to work with the Silverline team to help us build this. I can’t say enough about them!
About Project Sunshine
Project Sunshine’s TelePlay program is open to any pediatric patient facing any medical challenge, mental or physical. To learn more visit ProjectSunshine.org/TelePlay
About Silverline
Silverline has real-world expertise in the Healthcare industry, including industry sub-segments such as Provider, Payer, Medical Device, and Life Sciences. We combine strategic planning, implementation, and ongoing support to help clients realize continuous value with the Salesforce platform. We also offer CalendarAnything, a popular AppExchange application, and accelerators. To find out more, contact us at healthcare@silverlinecrm.com.
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CommonTeri Services is a proud Pledge 1% member and participates with extensive pro-bono work and volunteer hours with Literacy Texas. Literacy Texas is a statewide organization that aims to equip adult and family literacy providers with education, networking and advocacy. Teri Walker, CommonTeri’s company founder and CEO has been involved with Literacy Texas since 2015 and has served as the board president from 2017 through 2020. We provide the organization with a free support plan for ongoing Salesforce managed services helping maintain donor lists and maximize promotional opportunities to expand the membership. We also are a continued sponsor of the organization’s annual conference, an important gathering of Texas Adult Educators. Our team even helped the organization with creative social media promotion of the event to help engage with the membership on their first ever virtual conference this past August.
Adult and Family Literacy is such an important cause to Teri and the whole team at CommonTeri Services. When Teri was serving as the executive director of an Adult and Family Literacy nonprofit, she was thinking of all the ways that she could optimize an app for literacy nonprofits with Salesforce. She founded CommonTeri with a commitment to not only giving of time, talent, and a percentage of profits to helping nonprofits use Salesforce more efficiently, but also creating services that would be affordable and sustainable for such organizations to build a long-term relationship and continue their growth for many years. While she could have continued to work to build and improve one nonprofit, no doubt improving the community surrounding her, Teri saw a way to help communities all over the country and the world by assembling the right team of people to help hundreds of nonprofits.
CommonTeri is made up of a team of tech savvy Salesforce experts with a passion for helping nonprofits and we live that every day through both providing affordable Salesforce managed services and maintaining our program management app, Literacy Nimbus. We attend literacy conferences throughout the country, and often present to adult educators on a number of topics including was to manage data to maximize student outcomes, and more!
We’ve found that while this year, we can’t get together, we are hyper focused on using our tech-savvy to help communities everywhere. On any given day we could be leading a board meeting of literacy professionals in Texas, presenting to a group of adult educators in Maine, and supporting a Salesforce consultant based in Louisiana who’s working for a school in Africa, and we love it that way!
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This December, New Relic is creating a moment of global goodness with our newest NewRelic.org Global Impact Campaign! Over the course of two weeks, offices around the globe are coordinating a variety of efforts that support their local communities and give Relics the opportunity to give back right where they live. We’re hoping to build a sense of (mostly) virtual togetherness and connection by engaging in activities like virtual volunteer opportunities, nonprofit lunch and learns, and donation drives.
From virtual volunteer sessions to sending care packages to homebound seniors to learning from nonprofit organizations about how to get involved in their efforts, Relics around the world are proud to be supporting their communities.
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By Julia Maples, co-founder and General Partner at FYRFLY Venture Partners
Today, FYRFLY Venture Partners officially joined Coach K’s Dream Team. No, Philip Stauffer and I have not been drafted to play basketball for Duke. Rather, we are making a significant donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research Endowment, which enables the organization to mobilize 100% of direct donations towards finding cures for cancer. In doing so, we have fulfilled part of our commitment to Pledge 1%, a global movement to build philanthropy into the DNA of companies.
We are sharing this news because we want to see more founders and investors Pledge 1%.
Today, humanity faces a once-in-a-generation challenge. Unemployment, civil strife, food insecurity, and the grief of losing loved ones to COVID-19 have stricken too many communities. However, 2020 has been a boom year for technology startups, an unusually high number of which are going public. The many liquidity events of 2020 have given entrepreneurs and their investors the opportunity to make a difference at this crucial juncture in history.
If you’ve been graced by fortune this year, I encourage you to Pledge 1%. How you fulfill your pledge is a personal decision. I’d like to share why FYRFLY pledged and how that led us to Coach K’s Dream Team.
When Philipp and I founded FYRFLY in 2015, we didn’t see ourselves as an “impact” fund, but wanted to make philanthropy a core of our identity and mission anyway. We took our lead from Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, whose 1-1-1 philanthropy model was gaining traction through Pledge 1%. Philipp and I committed to donate 1% of our carried interest, 1% of our time, and 1% of our product to charity. Many of our portfolio companies have also adopted these practices, which have become a crucial part of their brand identity and success. We encourage our founders to focus on issues that have impacted their lives.
So, why did cancer become one of FYRFLY’s main areas of support? And why The V Foundation?
Founded by the legendary college basketball coach and commentator Jimmy Valvano, who passed away from cancer in 1993, the V Foundation is on a mission to cure cancer. Coach K (aka Mike Krzyzewski), a dear friend of Jimmy’s, is leading the charge to sustain the V Foundation in these chaotic economic times.
My father produced the first Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) Awards in 1993. Jimmy V received the Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award that day. During his acceptance speech, Jimmy announced that, with ESPN’s support, he was launching the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research and stated his famous edict: “Don’t give up…Don’t ever give up!”®
Nearing the end of his life, Jimmy did not give up. Instead, he asked the audience for research funding. “It may not save my life. It may save my children’s lives. It may save someone you love,” said Jimmy.
I lost my mother to cancer at a young age and connected deeply to Jimmy’s cause. Philipp lost his mother to cancer as well. Worldwide, more than 9.5 million people will die of cancer in 2020. It is the second leading cause of death globally. But thanks to world-class research funded by The V Foundation and other nonprofits, we have drastically better treatments for cancer today than we did in Jimmy’s day. Now more than ever, there is HOPE for cures.
Today, I am the chairwoman and co-founder of the V Foundation Wine Celebration, which has raised over $118 million for cancer research. When I founded the event, I wanted to give my time and effort. Yet being a part of “The V Team” and serving alongside Coach K and other esteemed members, I’ve learned that sharing a mission to change lives has given me far more in return.
Pledge 1% was one of the most important decisions FYRFLY Venture Partners has made. It has defined the spirit of our work, reminding us always to consider the impact of our investments and our advice to founders. Indeed, we believe that ‘Impact’ Investing is the Only Kind Left.
In joining Coach K’s Dream Team and being explicit about our Pledge 1% commitment, we are proud to honor our mothers, Jimmy V, and our mission at FYRFLY Venture Partners to align commercial success with the common good.
If curing cancer is a cause dear to your heart, join us on Coach K’s Dream Team. Either way, Pledge 1%, pick causes that fill you with passion, and use your resources to do good. Your leadership and support matter.
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Energy Terrain’s vision is to see a world powered by renewables. Our service in delivering Solar Power Purchase Agreements (Solar PPAs) allows businesses to share in this vision by reducing their operational carbon emissions. While we believe Solar PPAs are a great way to achieve this vision, Energy Terrain wants to go a step further and reach beyond our borders to accelerate the development of renewable energy. In order to support these different approaches to reducing carbon emissions, Energy Terrain has made a commitment to the Pledge 1% movement.
The Energy Terrain team made the pledge in 2017 and since then each member has sought a not-for-profit cause of their choosing to which they can dedicate 1% of their time. We at Energy Terrain are passionate about improving the renewable energy systems available to communities both nationally and internationally. Our team members all enjoy dedicating their energy towards this goal outside of our efforts at Energy Terrain. We are therefore able to offer our expertise and enthusiasm as assets to these not-for-profit organisations in order to support their visions also.
Renew
Renew is a residential, government, and industry sustainability consultant based in Australia which services those seeking to reduce their carbon footprint. Beyond their direct influence in communities, Renew also participates in social and environmental policy advocacy, and conducts research on energy, water, and transportation for the benefit of market consumers.
One of Renew’s major projects involves increasing local communities’ access to clean, renewable lighting and energy in Timor Leste. So far, solar energy has been supplied to more than 2,000 homes and 1,000 community centres, orphanages, schools, and hospitals. This has helped to not only reduce the villages’ carbon emissions, but also improved their local economies by providing training to over 180 technicians. These activities seek to cultivate independence within these communities.
Energy Terrain has partnered with Sassafras Group to assist in Renew’s Timor-Leste Plastic Plant Project. This is focused on improving a local plastic recycling plant’s efficiency. Currently, the energy required to operate the plant is limited to grid electricity which is only accessible during nighttime hours. The team is conducting a detailed solar system analysis in order to enable the plant to operate at full capacity during daylight hours, powered by clean energy. Our engineers are participating in the planning and optimisation of the plant’s solar system.
Enova
Enova Energy is Australia’s first community-owned and managed energy company, which aims to decentralise distant, large-scale energy generation. They are opting instead for integrating the generating, storing, and sharing of solar energy into their local communities, thus promoting self-sufficiency and locally circulated capital. Enova’s vision is to relieve energy poverty and economic stresses by motivating and aiding residents in their shift towards embracing renewable energy.
Enova’s not-for-profit branch, Enova Community, receives 50% of the company’s profits in order to redistribute it back into the community to fund projects, education, and energy efficiency services. Some of their current projects include:
- Installing solar gardens on medium-sized business rooftops in order to provide energy to those who cannot themselves host panel systems; and
- The McKenzie Lofts Project. fit-for-purpose clean housing project. The objective of this project is to construct 12 minimal-carbon footprint homes to enable accessibility to affordable housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness, which includes a collection of rooftop solar panel systems.
Energy Terrain has assisted in the research of funding opportunities and ways in which Enova can reduce energy stress in low-income households in order to progress the development of the McKenzie Lofts Project.
Climate for Change
Climate for Change is an incorporated association and registered charity which is currently the only organisation in Australia specifically aligned to improve climate change discourse. They promote awareness for climate change by engaging in educational conversations within a range of communities. Their mission is to support a national shift towards sustainability and climate conscientiousness with the aid of community, business, and government unity.
The method of participating in informed conversation with peers regarding climate change is now considered to be a predominant variable in bringing about effective policy and behavioural improvements. Energy Terrain has been involved in Climate Conversations, for which Climate for Change is known, as well as encouraging seminar attendance, and fundraising efforts.
Conclusion
Energy Terrain is committed to seeing a world powered by renewable energy. When we say the world, we mean it. The only way to achieve this is by working with others. That is why we donate our time to organisations that are reaching out to all corners of the world to help make a positive difference for communities not yet able to achieve it for themselves. All so we can truly move towards a sustainable world.
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2020 has been a tough year with a dizzying amount of disheartening statistics coming at us daily.
What’s striking – and heartening – is despite the worldwide turmoil, philanthropic movements and charitable donations are on the rise. We’re seeing that evidenced right here at Riva.
Riva is a proud member of the Pledge 1% movement. We are dedicated to upholding the challenge to pledge 1% of our equity, product, and employee time to our communities.
Even with Covid-19 restrictions, our team has demonstrated an altruistic spirit – creating a selfless wave of giving that is felt throughout our community.
Both individually and working together with peers, we have donated our time and money to positively impact local organizations supporting those in need.
As an organization, Riva has encouraged our employees to donate one hour of their salary each month and is generously matching those donations.
Together, we have given over 146 hours, served 17 charitable organizations, and raised almost $19,000 over the past seven months to support those in need!
There are so many reasons to focus inwardly right now. Turning our attention to supporting others can be healing and empowering to both those giving and those receiving.
Please take the challenge along with our team to help those in need in your community.
Want to make a difference with us? Join our world-class team.