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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When we joined Pledge 1% a few years ago, we didn’t know what our giving would look like. Would we donate our time, money or product or a little of each? As a creative agency, our only real ‘product’ is our human capital, so where do you start?

At first, donating money to local nonprofits seemed like the easiest way to get started, and in 2019, we were lucky to be able to go beyond the 1% minimum and donate 7% of our profits. But as time went on, we wanted to get more involved and find ways to physically show up for our community. And we did that through volunteering, internships, and mentoring.

We put in a couple of volunteer shifts at the SF Marin Foodbank. We joined the Marin Humane Advocacy Committee and became a board member of the animal sanctuary When Pigs Fly Ranch. We partnered with our client Pivotal and hosted their foster youth as interns the last two summers. And we became a sponsor of Griot, a Marin City theater company that amplifies brown and black culture through the arts.

Next up, we’re doing a group volunteer shift with our client Habitat for Humanity at a community garden in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, but Covid put the kibosh on that. So we’re stoked to regroup as a team to give back and get some dirt under our fingernails while doing it.

If you’re thinking about how you can help this Giving Tuesday, don’t be afraid to reach out to the people around you who could use your help, even if you don’t know exactly what it looks like. One thing can lead to another, but you’ll never know if you don’t strike up the conversation. We hope our own experiences inspire some interesting ideas, but we’re always happy to lend support and offer advice, so feel free to comment here!

As a part of Prolifiq’s Pledge 1%, we continue to emphasize the importance of giving back to our communities in Portland and Chicago, whether it is volunteering at local food banks, book banks or food depositories. outside of the dedicated team model, we encourage individuals to use their VTO to support local causes they are passionate about.

“Giving back is one of our core values, we are passionate about supporting our local charities and prioritize time for our employees to participate in volunteering efforts.”

-Eddie Hanson, President

When your dreams come true, it’s only right that you help make that happen for others, too. As a lifelong horse lover and collector of model horses, I have been blessed to be able to turn my hobby into a successful business, selling models to horse and animal lovers around the world. This year we were honored to be chosen as “Down East” magazine’s Best of Maine Toy Store.

In 2016, we were asked by our regional animal shelter if we would sell some models that had been donated to them. The response from our customers was exciting – We even sold one model twice (he was bought then donated back to be sold again)! With the success of this one-time project, we made the program permanent, and since then, we’ve raised over $10,000 for Harvest Hills Animal Shelter through donated model sales. Collectors donate models from all over the US for our program and the shelter sends each a receipt and thank-you card. We are grateful to be able to positively impact the lives of animals in need, as Harvest Hills serves animals from nineteen towns in our area.

Additionally, we also give 1% of all sales to charity using Plegling, which automatically takes the money from our sales and routes it to our chosen charity. We change recipients of our 1% based on current need, with past recipients including such organizations as The Red Cross, One Tree Planted, and No Child Hungry.

We believe every business should be a force for good in the world! We’re all in this together, big and small, from family-owned businesses like ours to large corporations. Imagine the world we could build if we all designate 1% of our sale dollars to helping a cause that improves the world and helps make other dreams come true!

Generous financial support and event volunteering will always be foundational ways for companies to support local community and non-profit organizations. But at Horizon, we’ve added a progressive new way to build these relationships, engage employees in our giving activities and meet Pledge 1% priorities: enabling employees to be non-profit board members.

Since inception, Horizon has worked to embed Corporate Social Responsibility into our business and make it part of who we are and how we operate. Donations to non-profit organizations began when the company was six years old and has continued to expand beyond the financial into partnerships that have made a difference

Over time, Horizon discovered a gap between nonprofits and their need for board members and a gap for employees who hope to volunteer as board members. Employees had the desire to donate their time and expertise but were not certain how to get involved at that level. So, in 2020, Horizon developed Boards+, a program to facilitate nonprofit board services for employees while supporting nonprofits. This progressive initiative allows employees to donate their time and expertise and helps nonprofits with new thinking and energy to meet their goals. We know success often comes down to people and nonprofits rely on individuals dedicated to and passionate about their mission to succeed.

This innovative initiative educates employees on becoming successful board members, builds a community of Horizon employees serving on boards, and assists nonprofits in finding new and diverse individuals to serve on their board. Most importantly, it creates an opportunity for employees to increase their impact on meaningful nonprofit boards in their personal time.

With this unique need for board members, Horizon asked employees to participate in a company wide survey that gathered personal interest and desire to serve on a board. Survey data and existing board vacancies were identified, then Horizon matched nonprofit boards in need of members with employees.

As a result, Horizon has successfully placed 62 individuals on boards aligned with their personal interest while also supporting the nonprofit with a genuinely dedicated and motivated board member. “Thanks to Horizon’s Boards+ program I was connected to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance whose mission is to save lives through awareness and prevention of colorectal cancer. My wife and I are extremely passionate about this cause given the loss of my brother-in-law, Ryan, to this disease. Thanks to Horizon’s support I am now a member of their board of directors. You can find more information about the organization here” said Joe Whalen, senior vice president, M&A and alliances, Horizon. This one-of-a-kind program is one that Horizon developed to better their community, nonprofits, and employee growth.

Coveo, a market-leading AI-powered relevance platform, announced today that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement to inspire, educate, and empower all companies to leverage their assets for good. By pledging 1% of its workforce’s time, 1% of profits, 1% of products, and 1% of equity, Coveo is demonstrating its commitment to philanthropic leadership.

“At Coveo, we believe we have a responsibility to make a lasting social impact in our communities. Together with our team, our board of directors, and our shareholders, we are proud to announce that we joined the Pledge 1% movement, committing 1% of our time, 1% of our products, 1% of our profits, and yes, 1% of our equity.” said Louis Têtu, Chairman and CEO at Coveo. “Our pledge is substantive, and I hope other companies will see what we’re doing and join us.” 

“Equal, accessible, and unconstrained access to knowledge and education is a key lever for human wellness, to combat poverty, and to reduce inequalities,” said Sheila Morin, SVP Corporate Marketing and Brand at Coveo.  “Whether it is democratizing AI and digital content access to make a non-profit more effective, using educational and employment opportunities as tactics for combating inequality, or making knowledge available to all, we aim to make the democratization of relevance a force for good locally and globally. With the structure of our pledge, we will be able to contribute our time, our technology, our money and our equity to help.  And we will seek to engage our partners in the journey.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Coveo to the Pledge 1% movement. As a company focused on creating relevant, personalized experiences at scale, Coveo has the potential for transformational impact on nonprofits and the stakeholders they serve,” said Amy Lesnick, Chief Executive and President of Pledge 1%. “By committing 1% of their equity to sustainably fuel long term social impact efforts and pairing these funds with other meaningful assets, Coveo serves as a terrific role model not only for other Canadian companies but for businesses across the globe.” 

Coveo will be working with its partners including Benevity Inc, a leading provider of global corporate purpose software that provides charitable donation-management and grant-management, as Coveo takes the next steps to re-democratize business.