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  This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating change within their workplace and communities.   Meredith Finn is a Director for Salesforce Ventures focused on leading strategic investments in enterprise SaaS companies that complement Salesforce’s ecosystem.  Meredith has led over 35 strategic investments on behalf […]

  Today, we are thrilled to announce that Pledge 1% co-founder Salesforce.com has launched a new AppExchange Trailblazer Score to reward points to companies that are also Pledge 1% members. The new score will be a point-based system that rewards Salesforce partners for their results and activities, including their participation in Pledge 1%.  Partners that join the […]

Originally published on PR Newswire.   New business model, onboarding experience and technology tools enable ISVs to quickly build businesses for the world’s leading enterprise apps marketplace Salesforce Ventures launches new Salesforce Platform Fund with $100 million commitment to supercharge the development of new, AI-driven solutions NEW YORK — May 2, 2017 — Salesforce [NYSE: CRM], the world’s fastest-growing […]

  By Robert Reiss.  Originally published on Forbes.com. We recently entered the 4th phase of the corporation. First, in the 1920s Alfred Sloan created the concept of the corporation with General Motors; second in the 1950s Peter Drucker codified the discipline of management; third, in the 1980s Japanese introduced team and quality. And now we are […]

An interview with Ida Lucente of  John Snow Labs. Data is a commodity. The data collected by pharmaceutical companies from drug testing, retailers from shoppers, telephone carriers from mobile devices — all that information is valuable. What’s more, the amount of data is astronomical, as is the potential the inherent insight holds; that is, if you have the […]

  By Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch. Originally shared on LinkedIn. For more than a decade, leading companies have been investing in making their community engagement programs more strategic. This is why so few have succeeded — until now.  In 2002, a ground-breaking article, The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, appeared in the Harvard Business Review. In it, Michael […]

By Sean Dukes, Owner and CEO of Learnsmarter.  Originally published on Medium. The first time I heard about 1:1:1, the Salesforce philanthropy model, was at Dreamforce Europe 2008. Back then, Salesforce’s visit to London was a two-day event, held at the Barbican Centre. I discovered several interesting things during those two days (including ‘Platform as a […]

By Rebecca Koening.  Originally published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. With charitable set-asides becoming standard elements of initial public offerings in the tech sector, one company that provides merger-related financial services is experimenting with a new vehicle for corporate philanthropy.   SRS Acquiom, which provides financial and management help on merger-and-acquisition deals, has a new partnership […]

This profile is published as part of Pledge 1%’s Women Who Lead series, which celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating change within their workplace and communities. Morgan McMillan is the Executive Director of Pledge 1% Colorado.  She was hired as the first E.D. (and paid staff) for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado […]