From day one, our founders believed that companies should positively contribute to society. Study.com has donated $23 million in-kind value across our various social impact programs, including millions to help schools during the pandemic, and we’re thrilled to join the Pledge 1% movement this year to continue these contributions.

At Study.com, we’re committed to strengthening and diversifying America’s teacher pipeline. This pipeline, the backbone of our education system, is facing a looming shortage of teachers that’s been exacerbated over the past eighteen months by pandemic challenges. Study.com provides access to tools to increase the number of novice teachers entering the field and to bolster the credentials of the veterans.

We’re proud to share that our test prep programs have supported over 30,000 educators prepare to sit for certification exams. These exams often prevent otherwise qualified educators from reaching the classroom, especially teachers of color. We’ve partnered with the California Center on Teaching Careers to provide access to Study.com’s CSET test prep courses, serving mostly rural areas of California. We’ve awarded Teacher Certification Scholarships of financial assistance and access to a variety of test prep materials for prospective teachers across the country. And most recently, we’ve committed to providing 600 test prep scholarships for aspiring teachers in Nevada, which will meet 20% of the state’s annual need of 3,000 new teachers. Nevada is one of the most diverse states in the country and facing one of the most critical shortages of new educators.

“Most of my students identify as special ed students. Regardless of their learning disabilities, I give them all hope. I encourage each of my students to go beyond high school and purse their dreams. My motto is, ‘If you think it, you can do it,’” said LaCarrianne Kirkland, recent recipient of a Study.com teacher certification scholarship.

Teacher credentialing is a game changer for educators, but so is having the right tools at their fingertips to help their students succeed. Through our partnership with Donors Choose, Study.com has donated subscriptions to hundreds of educators and provided online learning access for 40,000 students, primarily from Title 1 schools.

“Study.com helped even the playing field by providing additional support for students in need,” said Dr. Nathan of the Brooklyn Studio Secondary School, whose Donors Choose project provided learning support for 150 students at a full-inclusion high school in a high poverty neighborhood.

The microlearning format of Study.com provides opportunity for faster achievement gains, and allows educators to close learning gaps for those students for whom distance learning has caused a widening of the gap— especially Black students, Hispanic students, and students with disabilities.

Study.com is committed to finding ways to support teachers. We provide opportunities for professional growth, believe in enhancing teacher diversity in classrooms, and expand the possibilities of granting resources to classrooms in need across the country. Happy #GivingTuesday from all of us at Study.com!

Konnectryx was honored to have the opportunity to donate its time and expertise in 2021 to The Stay Beautiful Foundation. This foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides beauty and wellness boxes each month to over 500 women (aka “beauties”) who have been affected by cancer. These “Beauty Boxes” contain donated health and wellness products from generous retailers like Milk Makeup, lululemon, and Vital Proteins. The Stay Beautiful Foundation assembles, packs, and ships these beauty boxes to the women in their community.

With the recent partnerships with brands like lululemon, Stay Beautiful quickly ramped up from 200 beauties to over 500 within just a few months. With this increase in demand, the limitations of their current fulfilment process became apparent. The foundation’s founder, Ashleigh Cortes, recognized their systems were not flexible enough to meet their needs, and their inventory system was too complex. These issues made fulfilment too labor intensive and time consuming for this small nonprofit.

When Ashleigh sought out help, ShipStation, an ecommerce shipping platform provider, donated software licenses to the foundation. To install and integrate the new shipping software with Stay Beautiful’s Salesforce CRM and existing tech stack, ShipStation connected Ashleigh with one of its trusted implementation partners, Konnectryx.

Within weeks, Konnectryx improved the efficiency of The Stay Beautiful Foundation’s entire organization by installing a comprehensive, cloud-based solution. This new solution improved almost every aspect of Stay Beautiful’s organization.

Highlights include:

• New Dashboard & Reporting system featuring real-time beauty box statuses


• All operational data now available to staff on-demand, from any device, anywhere in the world


• CRM integration allows for new client tracking and automated follow up


• Ability for staff to create automated tasks and reminders


• Ability to record client interactions from phone, email, or online


• Elimination of repetitive tasks with advanced automation workflows

With a unique combination of donated product licenses from ShipStation, and donated time and expertise from Konnectryx, The Stay Beautiful Foundation can keep up with increasing demand and deliver the gift of beauty to thousands of women fighting cancer around the world.

Giving Tuesday, the global movement to encourage and celebrate philanthropy and a commitment to social impact was founded in 2012 as a response to the consumption-heavy holiday shopping season. The goal is to inspire the same excitement that might be had when purchasing the latest electronics and apply it to supporting nonprofits and other charitable organizations that work to improve our world.

In 2020, Giving Tuesday generated $2.47 billion in support, a 25% increase over 2019 and a clear indication that despite our collective health, economic and environmental challenges, people remain committed to giving back. The news is worth celebrating, but given the scale of our global challenges, the need to mobilize more action and funding for social impact demands that we scale our ambition beyond a single day dedicated to fundraising and volunteering.  What if every day was Giving Tuesday?

Corporations Can Have Transformative Social Impact – Beyond Giving Tuesday

Companies around the world participate in Giving Tuesday because it provides an excellent opportunity to align the corporate brand with doing good, promote corporate giving to consumers, and encourage employees to take action on the company’s social responsibility agenda. As a result, companies gain tremendous brand lift, increased employee engagement and other benefits — in 2020 alone it is estimated that Giving Tuesday generated $72 million in earned media and 3 billion impressions on Twitter.

The Fortune 500 spend 6.4% of total revenue on marketing and customer acquisition, which is nearly $1 trillion. Compare that to corporate giving in 2020 which decreased 6.1% to only $16.88 billion dollars. We know that customers are 4 times more likely to purchase from a brand with purpose and a clear impact strategy. And, we know that there is a $100 trillion funding gap for the world to meet the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Imagine creating billions in new funding for charities, and trillions in new value for your company through improved brand equity, increased employee retention, improved ESG scores and more.

Transforming Daily Operation to Include Social Impact

Research by Boston Consulting Group revealed that Social Impact is 13X more valuable to buyers than other traditional sales incentives. At Givewith, we make it easy to embed social impact into your company’s existing commercial activities – like buying and selling – so your teams can achieve their goals while helping to accelerate positive social and environmental impact, without any additional cost. By redirecting just a small portion of the billions spent on marketing, advertising, client acquisition, and discounts, companies using Givewith create shared value for business, people and planet.

Allowing the ideas behind Giving Tuesday to permeate into the way that companies conduct business on a daily basis is the fastest and most effective way to meet the world’s need for social, environmental, and economic transformation. To learn more, visit www.givewith.com

Social Champ began with a dream, and since then, we have only gotten bigger and better.  Our startup had a vision behind it, which made it unique and extremely solution-oriented, and result-driven. 

Social Champ is a social media management tool with solutions for multiple networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GMB, Pinterest, and Instagram. We are working on continuously evolving and making way for more social media profiles, and it won’t be long before our development team integrates almost all important social networks. 

Our Pledge to give Back

Since day 1, we have been offering a flat 50% on all plans for NGOs, no matter what their size is. To give back to society, we helped countless businesses stay on their feet during the pandemic by slashing the prices and providing social media support. 

A few months ago, Social Champ joined hands with Pledge1% to donate 1% of our time for the betterment of the industry. I also take out a portion of my time for training, consultations, and talks to help others start their startups. 

Current Company Plans

Currently, Social Champ has been in the business for quite some years, and we have made quite an impact during the time. Right now, we have several clients on multiple different plans who are making a change through their social media. 

However, since we are still developing and evolving with time, we are working on bringing forward new features and experimenting with different solutions. We recently launched a magnitude of new features, including multiple visual integrations, making it super easy to design and edit images and videos within the content dashboard. It has also made uploading pictures very easy and time-efficient. 

The integrations include Canva, Crello, Wave.video, Flickr, Imgur, Google Drive, and Dropbox. 

The second major feature that we introduced was Workspace, which was introduced, keeping the accessibility of people in mind. Most of our users are people who use multiple accounts, and they often want to group profiles together so that it is easier to organize. The workspace feature enables you better organize, manage, and monitor multiple profiles together. One of the best things about this feature is the fact that you can assign team members to a specific workspace rather than giving them access to the entire account. 

Social Champ also has a revamped content dashboard with a better and advanced main panel. The primary and secondary panel was also revised into a better and more organized form. 

Other interesting updates include:

• The Instagram first comment to increase reach and engagement with multiple hashtags. 


• Live location tagging from within the platform on different posts 


• Multiple images integrations with a facility to upload up to 9 images for Facebook and LinkedIn. 


• Direct Link integration to fetch media for the content with the new media upload UI. 


• Facebook first comment for pages and groups. 


• Revamped post approvals as a part of team collaboration and workspace feature. 


• In-app notifications for team approvals and all other feature updates. 


• Two-factor authentication for more security and better privacy. 

The team is also working on multiple new integrations, features, and platforms to make the tool more inclusive for all. 

Our team at Social Champ takes multiple interviews, conducts Twitter Chat sessions #ChampsTalk, and posts success stories of real clients. Other members who use Social Champ can also suggest who their mentors and favorite influencers are so that the team can reach out to them for interviews and other collaboration activities. 

Success Stories 

Here are a few success stories:

“Social Champ completely changed my planning and posting work from the ground up. And by that, I mean it has significantly simplified and streamlined what I do.

I have used other platforms previously, and although they all had their pluses and minuses, Social Champ is the only one that I have found that puts all the right elements together in the right way.

I can very quickly add content, images, videos, and once they’re uploaded, I can see in a glance which client has what content scheduled for when. That alone makes my work so much easier.” – Will Helton

“One of the key components of any good social media strategy is content consistency. SocialChamp.io is the tool that enables me to implement that part of my strategy. The workspaces allow me to organize the profiles for the different brands. The queues allow me to pre-define my preferred posting times and allow me to create posts and let the system slot them. The recurring post truly allows me to set it and forget it.

Probably my favorite feature of SocialChamp.io is the Canva integration. I can create posts on the fly and still use my branding elements from Canva. SocialChamp has become one of my most recommended tools.” – Nena B. Abdul Wakeel.

“The scheduling of social media posts plays an important role in our workflows. We can perfectly cover the different needs of our customers with the help of Social Champ.

If we didn’t use Social Champ, we probably wouldn’t be able to provide such an accurate and reliable social media service to our customers.

Everyone in the marketing agency sector knows that regularly publishing customer social media posts without automation is a real nightmare.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Linkedin, Google My Business, Pinterest. Managing so many types of social media platforms is already a challenge even for one customer.

Handling social media posts in the case of multiple clients quickly becomes untraceable without using advanced social media scheduling software.

We found the most suitable solution for us in Social Champ. We can also make good use of the content calendar, post scheduling, Bulk Schedule, and repurposing content function.

Our clients love that we can reliably manage their social media presence. It is a great help not to miss or forget to publish a post because Social Champ does the job in the background.” – Gábor Nagy.

All in all, we aim to bring forward a user-centric tool with a particular focus on introducing and developing solution-oriented features. Our team listens to what the customers want and then experiments and research that specific feature before releasing it for the greater audience. 

Inspire Community winner Britny Garcia uses Vestaboard to build positive thinking in her middle school special education classroom in Gilbert, Arizona.

“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.”

Vestaboard changes multiple times each class period to display announcements, learning targets, riddles, birthdays, and assignments. “The kids love the sound of the board changing and wait for it each day,” says Britny.

Beyond practical use, Britny uses her Vestaboard as a reward for students who meet goals and expectations. 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.

With only one whiteboard in the classroom, Vestaboard gives Britny more flexibility to share different reminders and messages to her students, such as daily writing prompts that Britny can easily change and control from the app.

Britny is one of over twenty winners of Inspire Community, Vestaboard’s program to donate to individuals and organizations who are making a positive impact in their communities. 1 Vestaboard is donated for every 100 sold.

To nominate an organization that inspires you, please submit a form here https://www.vestaboard.com/nominate

GearsCRM has been a fully-remote company since we were founded in 2009, with all of our employees working from home. We’ve always leveraged our internal communication channels to share ways to give back to our local communities and support the charities near to our employees’ hearts.

We officially joined the 1% Pledge movement in 2020. We were grateful to be in a position to be able to give back at a time where so many charitable organizations needed support. We have a dedicated Slack channel where our employees can post about charities they support, and offer ways to donate time or money, and Gears matches employee donations.

Over the years, Gears has informally adopted the Budsies Pals Program as our official charity. Each year, Budsies Pals works with children’s hospitals to bring the magic of comforting stuffed animals to kids who are in need of comfort and happiness. In fact, Budsies created our official Gears Mascot, Geary.

At the corporate level, Gears signed up as a sponsor and we’ve been partnering with Budsies Pals ever since, sponsoring 50 children at three different hospitals each year. Taking it even further, our employees have stepped up to sponsor children personally, and we hold contests and raffles in support  of Budsies to further our contributions.

This year, Gerent launched a very special back-to-school giving campaign. While school supplies are always needed for children returning for the year, we know that 13 million children (one in six American children) are experiencing food insecurity and poor nutrition can result in a weaker immune system, increased hospitalization, lower IQ, shorter attention spans, and lower academic achievement.

With this in mind, we partnered with Blessings in a Backpack and invited Brent Glass, Director of Individual Giving to speak at our Q3 Town Hall to share their important mission.

Blessings in a Backpack is an outstanding non-profit organization that provides elementary school children — who may be at risk of going hungry — with nutritious food on the weekends.

Last year, the organization provided children at over 1,090 schools across 46 U.S. states with 2.2 million bags of ready-to-eat food!

Thanks to the Gerent family and a company match, we were able to provide 732 hunger-free weekends for food-insecure children. 

Additionally, we encouraged our team and their families to get involved and offered remote VTO  opportunities to write positive notecards to accompany the food provided to the children.

OSF Digital is a team of innovators. We believe we can—and must—extend our inventiveness to create a positive impact in the communities where we operate. It’s a part of who we are as a company.

Through the OSF Foundation, we contribute to various charitable, cultural, educational and socially responsible causes. Employees worldwide have participated in our initiatives, and it’s helped foster pride and motivation among our team.

As a company, we focus on three areas:

Quality Education & Children

We feel all young people can thrive when given the right tools and opportunities. To help level the playing field for disadvantaged students, we grant 30+ scholarships annually to stellar students so they can reach their full potential and have a chance at a better future.

We also created the OSF Academy, a unique training program for adults interested in web programming. Candidates without prior experience in the tech field can use this opportunity to fast-track their careers.

Other efforts that focus on education and children include:

• Sponsoring 45+ children annually to attend summer camps


• Funding childcare center projects such as a playground


• Supporting low-income families during the holidays


• Donating school supplies, books, laptops, PCs, food, and clothing to children from low-income communities, with 200+ devices donated to date

Gender Equality

In 2020, some of the women at OSF created the OSF Women’s Network to bring together female employees to provide a network of support for each other. In 2021, they continue to encourage each other, share personal stories, and sometimes just provide necessary laughs during a stressful workday.

The group’s shared goals:

• Raise the number of women employed at OSF to 50%


• Help moms cope during maternity leave and support them to integrate faster when they return to work


• Share information and support to help women grow professionally and personally

Environmental Responsibility

The team at OSF believes that daily actions can contribute to building a brighter future for our planet. That’s why we started collaborating with Reforest’Action, an NGO with a unique model of crowd planting to preserve and restore forests on a global scale.

We invited our clients and partners to join us in this program, and together we planted more than 4,000 trees so far globally. By creating our forest, we’ve already positively impacted climate, biodiversity, health, and employment worldwide.

• 623 tons of CO2 stored


• 12K+ animal shelters created


• 16K+ months of oxygen generated


• 4K+ working hours created

The OSF team is looking forward to continuing these efforts and more.

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