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At Relativity, we believe that discovering truth is fundamental to the creation of a more just world. This year has brought countless challenges to so many of us, including those fighting for racial justice. The recent events surrounding racial injustice in the United States, and broader discussions on racial equality globally, have greatly impacted us and the communities in which we live and work – shining a light on oppression and injustice that have existed for hundreds of years.

In order to help progress such an important cause in our society today, Relativity expanded its social impact initiatives with Justice for Change, a new program providing access to our SaaS platform  RelativityOne for those fighting for racial justice initiatives. Our vision here is to create a world where social justice and racial equity are strengthened by one’s ability to access the resources necessary to discover the truth.

“Justice for Change will empower the e-discovery community to tackle the most important issues by providing technology to the organizations fighting for justice that need it most,” said Mike Gamson, CEO at Relativity. “I’m incredibly proud to work with such a dedicated team of Relativians and our community leveraging the power of our product to help make our world a more just and equitable place to live.”

Any of our customers and organizations that are advocating for racial justice are eligible to apply for the program. Selected organizations without a RelativityOne license or litigation support experience will be paired with a Relativity service provider or participating law firm to provide software or support.

Following the September launch of the program in the U.S., Justice for Change has also kicked off in Australia following a demand from the local community. Relativity is thrilled to include the Australian community in our efforts to make inclusion, diversity and belonging an integral part of our culture. Our teams around the world look forward to seeing the difference we can make when our communities come together to create positive change. 

If you work for an organization that is fighting for racial justice and are in need of technology to help with legal matters, please reach out to socialimpact@relativity.com to learn more about the program. If you’re ready to apply, please fill out this form.

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Gwinnett County, Georgia-based nonprofit HoPe (Hispanic Organization Promoting Education) was the recent recipient of an in-kind technology contribution that will help them grow their mission and better serve their student members and alumni of the program. 

The organization, which mentors and empowers hispanic high school students in the Atlanta area to graduate high school and attend college, currently has chapters in 66 high schools in 21 school districts, serving over 3,500 students and graduating over 1,100 students annually. With this contribution, HoPe thinks they can serve even more and expand their geographic footprint.

Greater Atlanta, Georgia-based Ad Victoriam Solutions (AdVic), a Salesforce consulting partner, donated over 200 hours of their technical expertise to help HoPe implement Salesforce. AdVic’s expert knowledge of the Salesforce platform allowed them to customize HoPe’s CRM to give their team a 360-degree view into their nonprofit. 

With the help of this in-kind contribution, HoPe is now transitioning out of Google Sheets to track their activities, campaigns, and members (potential, current, and alumni) through Salesforce, allowing them to automate items like marketing campaigns, volunteer drives, student sign-ups, and student engagement. Most importantly, HoPe is positioned to better serve their beneficiaries and scale their operations. 

Ad Victoriam team members were participating as a part of their commitment to Pledge 1%, a nonprofit organization founded by Salesforce and Atalassian that encourages their members to donate 1% of equity, time, product, or profit. AdVic’s commitment to Pledge 1%, along with their status as a certified B Corp, led to the creation of The Victory Project, which connects nonprofits new to the Salesforce ecosystem with members of the AdVic consulting team to streamline operations and help nonprofits like HoPe do more with less. In the first two years since the program’s inception, AdVic has donated over 1,500 consulting hours to nonprofits across the country. 

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Empower your employees to give back at the individual level by downloading our new Virtual Volunteering Playbook, which includes ideas and best practices on how to excite and inspire individual giving.

Endiem is proud to be a part of the #GivingTuesday movement. #GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform the world, beginning with their community. This year the event takes place on December 1, 2020. 

The majority of children in Houston ISD qualify for free/subsidized meals and when school is not in session the children’s main food source is gone. Kids’ Meals’ mission is to end childhood hunger by delivering free healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children and through collaboration provide their families with resources to help end the cycle of poverty. Known for acting early and in response to the increase of food insecurity with kids out of school during the COVID-19  pandemic, Endiem doubled its monthly donations to Houston Kid’s Meals in March. 

Endiem also empowers employees to show their generosity and give back to the community by participating in charitable efforts. Throughout the year the Endiem team is granted paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO). Throughout the pandemic, Endiem employees used their VTO to perform various tasks such as bag lunches at Kid’s Meals. And all of our team members were given an extra half-day of VTO during the week of May 5, 2020, in solidarity with #GivingTuesdayNow, an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19.

If you’re interested in being a part of #GivingTuesday and need help getting started, the movement’s website has an extensive list of ideas. Kid’s Meals could also always use a helping hand. You can make a difference by volunteering to decorate lunch bags, delivering meals, or packing lunches. As a non-profit, Kids’ Meals welcomes monetary donations, every $2 makes and delivers a healthy meal directly to the homes and into the hands of hungry children. Want to learn more about Endiem’s community efforts, contact us today!

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As the realities of COVID-19 began to unfold, the first action Unbounce leadership took was to prioritize the health and safety of its people and their families. From the outset, Leslie Collin, VP of People & Culture, was transparent about her team’s commitment to receiving and sharing advice only from reputable sources and committed to a regular cadence of internal communications so that employees knew exactly when to expect updates from P&C. 

The company, most commonly known for its AI-powered landing page software, transitioned to a work-from-home environment early on and created channels to keep the team feeling connected- like virtual cafes, #fitbounce workouts via Zoom, and trivia events. Each employee was offered a $500 WFH allowance to spend on whatever they needed to transition to their new environment, including covering unexpected caregiving costs for children or other family members. Unbouncers were also assured that time taken due to illness during this period would not be deducted from their usual sick day balance. 

Most importantly, leadership asked that the team support one another and help each other to navigate this uncertain time. The following quote is a snippet of an email from Leslie Collin, VP of People & Culture, sent to the Unbounce team on March 17, 2020. 

“Unbounce is first and foremost a people-first, family-first company…we have fellow Unbouncers navigating unique circumstances as a result of this situation. Let’s help each other navigate …and consider how we can operate with a strong sense of flexibility and creativity around getting work done as we seek to accommodate what is new and uncharted territory for all of us.

It’s ok if you’re not as productive – that might happen, and we are ok with that. Perhaps you get a few hours of work done throughout the day, and hop on to do a few hours later in the evening – that’s ok. You might miss some important meetings due to juggling childcare – that’s ok. Deadlines and deliverable dates might have to change – that’s ok. To our people leaders, please be curious, assume positive intent, and ask how you can help.” (Leslie Collin, VP of People & Culture)

Next, Unbounce looked to support their customers, many of which are small businesses. These customers were experiencing a range of challenges – some were running into a complete lack of incoming revenue. Others, like those in ecommerce, were experiencing a surge in traffic they weren’t prepared for. Regardless of their situation, Unbounce didn’t want campaigns and software subscriptions to be piling stress onto an already stressful situation. They offered to set up one-on-one calls to work with each customer to determine how Unbounce could help them in their unique situation. You can learn more about their full approach here.

Unbounce has also been offering their Essential Plan for free to all not-for-profit, healthcare, education, and government organizations as their mission-critical services are needed now more than ever. 

Lastly, they built and curated a set of resources to help small businesses pivot online and ramp up their digital marketing:

 

• This Small Business Care Package is a landing page of curated initiatives, credits, and funding opportunities from tools and platforms aiming to help small businesses get online quickly and optimize their marketing. 


• This blog post that outlines tips for traditionally brick and mortar small businesses to transition online in a manageable way. 


• “20 Best B2B Landing Page Examples” for best practices/page inspiration for those new to this, and “13 Best Landing Page Examples of 2019” for even more ideas. 


• This introduction to what a landing page is for PPC, and how to use one.


• This list of best practices for those trying to figure out how to write copy for their first Google Ad.

In the spirit of giving what they’re good at, Unbounce will be donating time and expertise on May 5th to its nonprofit customers by offering free one-on-one strategy sessions for their landing pages. Nonprofits are being hit especially hard during this crisis, and Unbounce’s expertise in conversion optimization will help these organizations to ensure their pages are as effective as possible in converting donor/volunteer traffic on their pages.

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The Makers to the Rescue documentary project captures the spirit and shares the stories of the open source medical supplies movement. By highlighting the efforts of organizations and individuals’ response to supply critical personal protective equipment (PPE) to first-line defenders in the COVID-19 pandemic we hope to inspire others to take action, to celebrate the work already done and remember we’re all in this together.  

As COVID-19 gained a foothold in the U.S., we found our healthcare systems, and society, woefully underprepared to prevent the spread using vital personal protective equipment.

An intrepid network of volunteers and small-business owners mobilized, almost overnight, to pivot their studios, shops and community spaces into a crowd-sourced supply chain to rapidly develop, produce and distribute vital equipment for the Americans on the front lines of this epidemic.

Despite the hardships the pandemic has placed upon their personal lives and livelihoods, the artists, the makers, and the misfits answered the call. 

Small businesses abandoned their lucrative primary-business models and joined forces with their competitors to ramp up PPE production. Non-profit makerspaces developed hygienic, volunteer-powered assembly lines. Regular people volunteered their own homes, vehicles, and hands, to manufacture and deliver face shields, masks, head coverings and other PPE. 

Their stories will be told in Makers to the Rescue.

And, just as the production of the PPE is being crowdsourced, this documentary is too. Using a variety of self-shot and remotely shot footage, we follow this motley crew’s journey to deliver life-saving supplies to healthcare workers around the country. 

Whether you donate to this film or to an open source PPE project, this #GivingTuesdayNow we encourage you to get involved in efforts to support the medical community. 

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At MK Partners, commitment to community is one of our core values. Whether it’s our local communities of North Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, our business community of staff, clients, and partners, or the Salesforce community of admins, developers, and Trailblazers – our community’s success enables our success, and giving back is an organization wide priority.

Giving Tuesday is an annual opportunity to celebrate the strides we’ve made over the last twelve months and to inspire and reinvigorate our efforts for the next twelve. It’s a chance to recognize the cumulative effects of small, but impactful action. To take stock and be grateful that we have the means and opportunity to give back.

This year, as we’ve watched our lives, businesses, communities, and families be dramatically reshaped in the face of global pandemic, Giving Tuesday is more important than ever. Not just as a chance to speak, but as an opportunity to listen. As more people need help than perhaps ever before, and still others with the means, opportunity, and desire to help, might feel overwhelmed or lost, unsure how to contribute meaningfully against what feels like a faceless, unstoppable force. Giving Tuesday represents an opportunity to align our ideals with action. To give voice to those in need and ensure their words land on the ears of those desperate to help ease their burdens.

At the start of April we announced a grant program, offering over $1.5 million in support and services to Los Angeles-based small businesses, and US-based nonprofits to help them transition to remote work, maintain effectiveness and keep their businesses afloat while protecting their employees. The program has already had positive effects, both to those we’ve been able to help, and also internally as it reaffirmed the fact that we can make a difference and that together, we’ll make it through this.

There are still grants available through the program so we’d encourage you, and anyone you know who qualifies, to enroll. Help us find those who need help the most, amplify their voices this Giving Tuesday, and let’s get through this, together.

We’re listening. We’re here for you. We’re going to be ok.

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We are so proud of the work we’re doing at Trust & Will. 

From Day 1, we made the commitment to Pledge 1% as it not only aligned with our personal values, but also with our ambitions to build a wildly successful company with philanthropy ingrained in our team’s DNA. The current pandemic put us all in an uncomfortable and vulnerable position — with regards to our lives, health, and family.

As a husband to a sonographer, and having many close friends and family members in healthcare, I see and feel the stress and anxiety hitting healthcare professionals during this time. With the added pressure hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals are facing, the last thing they should be worried about is if they and their families are at risk without having an estate plan in place.

Beginning April 1st, any healthcare professional working in a public health setting in the US, can apply to receive a free Will-based estate plan for themselves including health care documents, HIPAA Authorization and Medical Power of Attorney. Healthcare professionals can submit verification of credentials in the US here. 

Many members of Team Trust & Will have friends and family that are directly impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19. It was a team decision to come together to bring this initiative to reality. Our mission is to protect families and provide them a better way to plan for life.

Trust & Will is disrupting the trust and estate planning industry with an easy, fast, and secure way to set up your estate plan online. We’ve modernized estate planning with a design-first approach, layered on top of incredible customer support to help people throughout the process — making estate planning simple, affordable, & accessible. Since starting the company in October of 2017, we’ve raised $8M in capital, went through the Techstars accelerator, lined up partnerships with MassMutual, Policygenius, and more, completed the first electronic Will in history, and have helped over 90,000+ Americans kickstart their estate plan.

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Horizon Therapeutics has been an active supporter of the community since its founding, a little more than 10 years ago. Horizon’s CEO, Tim Walbert, invested in corporate social responsibility even before the company was profitable.  When the repercussions of COVID-19 started to become clear, Horizon immediately sought out how to best lend support. We landed with a $1.5 million+ donation, split amongst community nonprofits and foundations in Illinois, the City of Chicago, Lake County, San Francisco, Washington D.C, Canada and Dublin, Ireland.  

Additionally, we helped seed two new funds with the Governor in Illinois.  The first is focused on supporting our communities throughout Illinois and the second is focused on the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE) for our frontline healthcare workers.  More information on the PPE fund can be found here. 

As a community, we must address the immediate need to support our healthcare workers and first responders.  These unsung heroes are working directly with patients; and in these unprecedented times, they are doing so with a lack of critical protective medical products and equipment.

Donations will help provide increased access to medical PPE for healthcare providers and first responders throughout Illinois.  As of 4/20, the following PPE has been donated: 3,080 goggles; 13,740 protective clothing; 93,100 cleanroom gloves; 3,620 N95 masks; 14,930 surgical masks; 101,750 testing swabs.

Each of us as individuals, and collectively as part of our workplaces, can lend support to someone, somewhere in need.  If donating to the PPE fund speaks to you, please do so here.  Any amount helps.  

Other ideas include ordering from your favorite neighborhood restaurant and having it delivered to your local domestic violence shelter, tipping your grocery delivery driver double, donating to your local food pantry, or calling a loved one to check in. Do something.   

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The Community Blood Center is a nonprofit organization that is the sole provider of blood and blood products to more than 20 local hospitals in Northeast and North Central Wisconsin, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Every 2 seconds, someone in the United States is in need of blood, and the Community Blood Center has the daunting task of sourcing, organizing, and hosting over 100 blood drives every month, collecting more than 50,000 blood donations annually, all under the simple mission of “connecting lives and sharing life.”

As COVID-19 loomed over Wisconsin, and the governor issued a SaferAtHome order, blood drives were being cancelled and donor collection was immediately being affected. With a growing need in mind, the Community Blood center recognized that enhancing their Salesforce system would allow for expansion of their future blood drive campaigns, and positioning their organization to better serve our communities post COVID-19.

Canvas Cloud, a Salesforce Partner and Salesforce Nonprofit Partner, had previously met with team members of the Community Blood Center regarding enhancements to their existing Salesforce system, and were impressed by their vision to serve our local communities. Recognizing the severe impact that COVID-19 was having on the Community Blood Center, the owners of Canvas Cloud wanted to help – deciding without reservation that they would donate consulting and configuration services to meet their project requests, free of charge, to help ensure that the Community Blood Center would be better positioned to help our local communities.

Canvas Cloud is committed to the 1% Pledge by offering their expertise and services pro bono to the Community Blood Center.  By helping them, we can help everyone in our local communities.

As difficult as it may seem when any organization or business is suffering from economic hardships, we must not think of “if” this hardship ends, but “when” it ends.  Where will we be and what will we do next? With the widespread impact of this pandemic, you can have an enormous impact on your community by reaching out to your local nonprofits and community leaders to offer your assistance so that we are all better prepared to move forward as we recover from COVID-19.

For more information on the Community Blood Center, visit their website. 

For more information on Canvas Cloud, visit their website.