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This article was submitted by Tim Smith, Director of Innovation Partnerships & Pledge 1% at the Boston Foundation 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. Technology Underwriting Greater Good (TUGG) is the nonprofit arm of Greater Boston’s […]

  Originally published in The Australian. When Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar was in his 20s, he and his girlfriend made a four-hour trip from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to visit a school. Farquhar had been inspired to visit the school after reading a book by former Microsoft executive John Wood called Leaving Microsoft to Change […]

  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. Janine Sickmeyer is the CEO & Founder of NextChapter, a web application for attorneys to prepare, manage and file bankruptcy cases online. As a business leader […]

  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. Darine Pokawatana is the Director of Product Development at Causecast. Q1: How long have you been working for your company? I’ve been working with Causecast […]

This interview 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. PLEDGE 1%: How did you get started in business? By accident, by design? Kate Bradley Chernis: I’d spent a dozen years in radio, my last gig broadcasting […]

  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. Susan Jones is the COO and Co-founder of Wear+Care, a Pledge 1% Member company.   Q1: What inspired you to work in this industry? […]

This interview 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. Q1:  What is your Name and Title? Gemma Sole, Cofounder and COO/CMO of Nineteenth Amendment Q2: How long have you been in your current position? 3 years […]

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. Lynn is a highly experienced board member. Over the past 25 years she has served on private and public company boards, including listed, in the […]

By David Callahan.  Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. The rising philanthropy of the U.S. tech sector has come in waves. In the first wave, the big winners from the early boom in computer hardware and software shifted billions of dollars into major foundations, creating the Hewlett, Packard, Moore and Gates foundations—all of which emerged as new […]