In 2018, iVision joined a network of corporations in taking the 1% Pledge: we committed to giving back 1% of our time and profits to help improve our local communities. For our inaugural event, iVision chose to partner with the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB).
We joined together as a team to inspect, sort, and package donations at the ACFB warehouse in downtown Atlanta. The ACFB serves over 600 partners across 29 counties in metro Atlanta and North Georgia. On average, over 750,000 people benefit from the work done at the ACFB. iVision was proud to partake in the event to help eliminate hunger throughout North Georgia.
The iVision Impact
During the two-day event, iVision:
- Had 80 volunteers
- Packaged over 31,000 pounds of food
- Provided over 22,000 meals
- Logged almost 300 volunteer hours
Originally published on Medium.
BlockMesh is on a mission to connect the unconnected through a decentralized, cost-free communications network. For the past four weeks, we’ve been busy working on our hardware and have also been invited to the MEST Africa Summit and RISE Technology Conference. Our hardware solutions are integral in seeing our mission fulfilled, read more about that in this update. Besides focusing on our hardware development and attending conferences, we also have one eye on the future as we look to develop our own custom blockchain, read about that here.
MEST Africa Summit:
The MEST Africa Summit held in Cape Town was a brilliant experience as we rubbed shoulders with global entrepreneurs, investors, industry-leading executives and the next generation of African tech startups. It’s great to see how excited people are for our unique venture and we look forward to exploring new partnerships.
Our Co-founder Jason was a #MESTAfricaSummit panellist discussing how Blockchain can have the biggest impact across Africa, how companies can best leverage this tech as well as regulation, ICOs, reputation & expectation management, potential use cases and more.
RISE Technology Conference:
Coming up for the BlockMesh team is RISE in Hong Kong. Rise brings speakers from the world’s biggest companies together with the world’s most exciting startups. Last year, RISE welcomed 14,000+ people from 90 countries; including 400 investors, 565 media, almost 600 startups and 240 speakers.
We have been invited as a featured startup and will be exhibiting our custom MeshEx Keyring Boosters (world first) alongside our chat and wallet apps. We can’t wait for the opportunity to meet with and learn from some of the biggest minds in global tech and innovation.
Hardware Update:
After months of hard work and determination, BlockMesh is in the final stages of completing an important milestone. Once completed we will be the only company in the world to release a communications device that incorporates a blockchain.
MeshEx Keyring Booster
We’ve recently performed field tests of our MeshEx Keyring Boosters and have confirmed 2-way communications from 5km apart, point to point. We plan to have our alpha version ready for demonstration at RISE.
A — Sender, B — Relaying, P — Travelling receiver (in vehicle)
Partner Programme:
After internal testing, the MeshEx Keyring Boosters will be sent to select partners and community members. They will be tasked with setting up Beta BlockMesh networks for case-studies and further testing. Simultaneous real-world tests in various conditions and environments will fast-track our development. The Partner Programme will reward those who take part so keep an eye on our website and social channels to put yourself forward as a beta tester.
Kickstarter Campaign:
Once the Partner Programme field tests are completed, we will launch a Kickstarter campaign to further fund our device rollout. We plan to distribute 10 000 units within 2018 and a successful Kickstarter campaign will help us achieve this goal.
Updated FAQ answered and added to our website:
1. What is the Total Supply of Blockmesh?
2. Does Blockmesh have its own blockchain?
3. Where can I store BMH tokens?
4. What is the utility of the BMH token?
5. Can BMH be mined?
6. Why does Blockmesh need a blockchain?
7. Does Blockmesh have patented technology? What are the patents?
8. What is a mesh network?
9. How much will the BlockMesh hardware devices cost?
10. Is Blockmesh just a messaging app?
We’re looking forward to this next chapter of the BlockMesh development story and appreciate your support in helping us to achieve these goals. As always, find out more on our website and by joining our Telegram group and send any questions or comments to us on Twitter.
NORMAN, Okla., Sept. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Nextep announced today that, through its charitable foundation, it has joined Pledge 1%.
Pledge 1% is a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key part of every business. The charitable program empowers companies to donate 1% of product, 1% of profit, or 1% of employee time to improve communities. Nextep has committed to achieving all three of these goals, including 1,000+ community service hours, $100,000 in charitable donations to families and community organizations in need, and free services to select startup nonprofit businesses.
“From families and schools to charities and businesses, the Nextep Charitable Foundation is working to remove the barriers that keep people in need from moving forward,” said Brian Fayak, Nextep’s founder and CEO. “We’re fortunate to be in a position to give back, make a positive impact, and to empower our employees to do the same. We’re glad to join the Pledge 1% movement.”
The Nextep Charitable Foundation is joining an impressive network of entrepreneurs and companies across the globe that have committed to philanthropic efforts and leadership through the Pledge 1% movement.
“We are incredibly excited that Nextep has taken the pledge,” said Amy Lesnick, chief executive of Pledge 1%. “Nextep can play a pivotal role in building this movement and promoting a new normal in which all companies—big and small—integrate giving back as a core value in their business.”
Nextep was inspired by the model put forth by Salesforce. The company hopes to be an example to others who are able to give of their time and resources. “Salesforce is dedicated to changing the way companies think about corporate philanthropy,” said Suzanne DiBianca, EVP of corporate relations and chief philanthropy officer, Salesforce. “Today, we’re excited that Nextep is joining us in giving their resources back to the community. This is another great example of the power that business has to create change in our communities.”
About Nextep
As a certified professional employer organization (PEO), Nextep provides comprehensive HR, benefits, payroll, and risk & compliance solutions for businesses throughout the United States. Through the PEO relationship, clients and their employees gain access to big-business benefits, technology, and support delivered by friendly experts. Nextep takes on the liability while clients maintain worksite direction and control, getting back to doing what they do best: growing their businesses. For more information about how PEO helps small business, visit nextep.com.
The IRS does not endorse any particular certified professional employer organization. For more information on certified professional employer organizations, please visit www.IRS.gov.
Nextep, Inc.
1800 N. Interstate Dr.
Norman, OK 73072
www.nextep.com
Phone 888.811.5150
resources@nextep.com
Contact
Adam Graham
Office 405.928.2361
agraham@nextep.com
Originally published on PR.com.
San Francisco, CA, September 24, 2018 –(PR.com)– RFPIO, a leader in cloud-based RFP response software, today announced renewed commitment for Pledge 1%, a global movement spearheaded by Salesforce, among other companies, that invites entrepreneurs and their companies to commit important resources (product, time, equity or profit) to support integrating philanthropy into their business from an early stage. The support for Pledge 1% is part of RFPIO’s ongoing “ROI of Compassion” program.
“We are incredibly excited that RFPIO has taken the pledge,” said Amy Lesnick, chief executive of Pledge 1%. “RFPIO can play a pivotal role in building this movement and promoting a new normal in which all companies—big and small—integrate giving back as a core value in their business.”
New Google Chrome extension debuts
RFPIO also announced that it has released the RFPIO Lookup extension for Google Chrome. RFPIO Lookup enables users to access contextually relevant content from a central repository called the Answer Library. Users do not need to log in or navigate to another site or application.
With company knowledge at their fingertips, users can copy proactive recommendations and perform searches of curated company content to be applied to time-saving use cases. The extension simplifies common tasks, including: responding to commonly asked questions in email, fulfilling online questionnaires in third party sites, checking on opportunity progress and other details in Salesforce, and finding company-approved graphics to be used in presentations.
“Automating and optimizing RFP processes can drive major gains in productivity not just in sales and marketing, but across the entire organization,” said Ganesh Shankar, co-founder and chief executive officer of RFPIO. “RFPIO’s new Chrome Extension can help companies transform their RFP processes, so they can spend time focusing on their business goals, rather than writing up RFPs.”
RFPIO will showcase the new extension, along with the full RFPIO solution, at Dreamforce, the most innovative software conference of the year, taking place September 25-28 in San Francisco. Attendees can learn how the RFP process can be streamlined and integrated directly into Salesforce to help sales and marketing professionals save time and increase productivity. RFPIO optimizes the proposal response process through collaboration, centralized content management, technology integrations and reporting.
For more information about RFPIO and its cloud-based RFP response platform, go to https://www.rfpio.com/ and watch a video about how RFPIO works.
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About RFPIO
RFPIO’s proposal management platform, the industry’s first AI-enabled solution, is trusted by companies around the world and across industries to facilitate a more efficient RFx response process. The solution’s dynamic answer library provides centralized content and a collaboration hub. Robust, bi-directional integrations with many popular solutions, along with an open API, allow teams to connect instantly to people and content. Built by a team with extensive experience in RFP response, RFPIO is an easy-to-use solution that makes RFP response efficient and effective. RFPIO works with many enterprise organizations, such as Google, Adobe, Atlassian, Change Healthcare, Siemens, Tenable, Zoom Video and others. For more information, visit rfpio.com or follow @rfpioinc on Twitter.
View the original post on Silence Media’s website.
Silence is a Pledge 1% company, which means we give 1% of our time, product and profit to charity.
As part of this pledge, we’ve collaborated with music management company You Me Management to produce Look Up, a pop-up record and bookshop curated by DJ Gilles Peterson.
With Look Up, we’re exploring the positive connection between mental health and the arts while raising money for the vital work of mental health charities – you can visit the website here.
Gilles is raising money for Safaplace, an emerging mental health charity that encourages and enables the support of positive mental health and well-being of students through education and awareness. The money raised by Look Up will go towards mental health training for teachers and peer mentoring for students at Stoke Newington School.
Look Up is open from September 24th to the 30th at the Edwards Lane Gallery, which is behind Stoke Newington library. We’re also hosting gigs at nearby venue The Old Church and a closing party at the Five Miles nightclub in Tottenham. Gilles has curated the albums, books and artwork we’re selling at the shop. He’s also selected the guests we’re interviewing at the shop, the artists performing at The Old Church and the DJs playing the closing party at Five Miles.
You can buy tickets for all the events on Dice.
You can read more about Look Up in these articles on the Evening Standard, Hackney Citizen, Clash, DJ Mag, The Vinyl Factory , DIY, Location Location, The Quietus and Mixmag.
September 12, 2018 – Forbes The Cloud 100, the definitive list of the 100 top private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks, announced today that Slack, the cloud-based collaboration company, has received the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 Pledge 1% Impact Award.
For the past three years, Forbes has recognized companies around the world who are making a difference with their technology and products. The Pledge 1% Impact Award recognizes one company out of the top 100 who is truly going above and beyond to have a positive impact with their work. We are thrilled to congratulate Slack on winning this year’s award.
Slack recently joined the Pledge 1% movement by announcing their newest initiative – Next Chapter. In partnership with The Last Mile, a technology training program for incarcerated individuals, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and John Legend’s FREEAMERICA, Next Chapter helps bring returning citizens back to the workplace through year-long apprenticeship training programs for The Last Mile graduates. Through this program, Slack employees train and mentor participants, equipping them with the skills the need to re-enter the workforce. The program is already having a tremendous impact on participants and is creating a blueprint for other companies to train and hire people who have been incarcerated.
This type of innovation and collaboration is at the heart of the Pledge 1% movement and we are delighted to celebrate Slack today for this groundbreaking work and for their leadership with their Pledge 1% commitment.
Receiving the Pledge 1% Impact Award on behalf of Slack was Co-founder and CTO Cal Henderson, along with Deepti Rohatgi, Director of Slack for Good and Public Affairs. The Award was presented by Kirsten Wolberg, Chief Technology & Operations Officer from DocuSign, who received last year’s Impact Award.
To commemorate Slack’s commitment to giving back, Salesforce.org will be donating $10,000 to the charity of Slack’s choice. In addition, past winners and fellow Pledge 1% members Twilio and DocuSign will be matching this donation, for a total of $30,000.
We congratulate Slack, Twilio, DocuSign, and all of the companies in the Pledge 1% community for all that you do to have an impact. We are proud to see so many members on The Cloud 100 list, including Qualtrics, Rubrik, PagerDuty, nCino, Automattic, Looker, Vlocity, Lookout, Gainsight, Dataminr, Workfront, Collibra, Algolia, FinancialForce, Optimizely, Digital Ocean, New Voice Media, Drift, and Dialpad. Your leadership is a shining example for the larger cloud community to give back.
Lastly, we’d like to thank Forbes and Pledge 1% partners Salesforce Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners for including the Pledge 1% Impact Award in this exciting event, and for continuing this tradition of recognizing companies who are having an impact.
To learn more about The Cloud 100 and to view the 2018 list, click here.
For more information about Pledge 1% or to join the global movement, visit pledge1percent.org.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, August 14, 2018 – Coleman Insights announced today that it has joined Pledge 1%, a global movement inspiring companies of all sizes to integrate giving into the DNA of their business. Over 1,500 companies in 40 countries have joined the movement.
As a Pledge 1% member, Coleman Insights will donate one percent of its annual profits and one percent of the services its produces each year to non-profit organizations that meet criteria set by a committee of company employees. In addition, Coleman Insights employees will donate one percent of their annual working hours to volunteer on behalf of non-profit organizations,
Coleman Insights President Warren Kurtzman explains, “We decided to publicize our participation in Pledge 1% not to pat ourselves on the back, but to encourage other media and research companies in the industries we serve to build giving back to their communities into their everyday business practices. A program like Pledge 1% is perfect for companies willing to make a specific commitment to supporting community and charitable organizations.”
“We are incredibly excited that Coleman Insights has taken the pledge,” said Amy Lesnick, chief executive of Pledge 1%. “Coleman Insights can play a pivotal role in building this movement and promoting a new normal in which all companies—big and small—integrate giving back as a core value in their business.”
Learn more about the Coleman Insights Pledge 1% initiative here.
About Coleman Insights
Coleman Insights, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, with offices in Philadelphia and Hamburg, Germany, is a research firm that has helped media properties build strong brands and develop great content since 1978. Its clients include hundreds of media properties in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, including those owned by iHeartMedia, Entercom Communications Corporation, Univision, Bonneville International Corporation, Hubbard Radio, Newcap Radio, Emmis Communications, SummitMedia, Bauer Media, Salem Communications, Connoisseur Media, Corporación Radial del Perú, Neuhoff Media, Delmarva Broadcasting Company and Townsquare Media. Additional information about Coleman Insights is available at www.ColemanInsights.com.
About Pledge 1%
Pledge 1% is an effort spearheaded by Atlassian, Rally, Salesforce and Tides to accelerate their shared vision around integrating giving back into businesses around the world. Pledge 1% encourages and challenges individuals and companies to pledge 1% of equity, product and employee time for their
communities, because pledging a small portion of future success can have a huge impact on tomorrow. Pledge 1% offers companies turnkey tools and best practices, making it accessible for any company to incorporate philanthropy into their business model. To learn more or to take the pledge, please visit www.pledge1percent.org.
Originally posted on Comunal Communidad Altruista’s blog.
Nos complace anunciar que “COMUNAL Comunidad Altruista” se une al movimiento mundial Pledge 1% cómo compromiso filantrópico.
Pledge 1% empodera a diversas compañías para tener un compromiso y una promesa de donar, 1% de producto, 1% de capital, 1% de utilidad o 1% de tiempo para aportar algo positivo a proyectos sociales alrededor del mundo.
Pledge 1% es un esfuerzo en conjunto para acelerar la visión de integrar la filantropía dentro del modelo de negocio de empresas a nivel mundial.
En COMUNAL tenemos el objetivo de informar, sensibilizar y motivar a las personas para apoyar diversas causas sociales, conectando organizaciones sin fines de lucro, empresas y personas para ayudar a quienes más lo necesitan.
Es muy importante para nosotros este compromiso ya que no solamente afirma lo que somos como empresa social, sino la visión que tenemos para generar conciencia social.
Para conocer más pueden revisar www.pledge1percent.org
By Abigail Summerville. Originally published on Boston Business Journal.
Boston-based Bullhorn Inc.’s latest philanthropic efforts include joining global initiative Pledge 1% and partnering with national nonprofit Year Up.
As a member of Pledge 1%, the software company for staffing and recruitment firms is committing itself to donate one percent of its profit and other resources, such as employee time and products, to benefit the local community. At Bullhorn’s annual North American staffing and recruiting industry conference on Thursday, it will match all donations to Year Up and Career Collaborative, up to $50,000.
The company already has a 12-year-old philanthropic arm, Bullhorn Cares, which has raised $500,000 to date. Bullhorn employees also donate their time by providing free services to those in need. One current beneficiary of Bullhorn Cares is Career Collaborative, a local nonprofit that provides training, job-search assistance and job retention support for clients who start off unemployed or underemployed.
“There’s a real sense of engagement that people get out of that type of hands-on interaction with nonprofits, but especially with the people they serve,” Bullhorn founder and CEO Art Papas said in an interview with the Business Journal on Wednesday. “It creates a powerful allegiance and loyalty to the organization. (Employees) feel like the company is investing in you and also the community.”
Papas, who has served as board chairman of Career Collaborative since 2015, decided to partner with Year Up, a similar non-profit that also aims to close the opportunity gap. Year Up helps urban young adults land jobs by teaching them the skills needed by today’s companies.
“We felt like we also wanted to touch the youth because Career Collaborative is solely focused on adults or young adults. We wanted to go a little bit earlier,” Papas said. “There aren’t a lot of programs that bridge the gap between end of childhood and work.”
Papas said he hopes other companies will follow in Bullhorn’s footsteps and embrace these two organizations in their own philanthropic endeavors.
Originally posted: June 28th, 2018