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Originally published in the Independent Ireland. Suzanne DiBianca is at the pointy end of making companies less evil. There’s a real push – particularly in the technology sector – to use the wealth created by companies for something better than just buying Ferraris.   She heads up the Salesforce Foundation and was one of the first […]

By David Swan. Published in the Australian. Global cloud computing firm Salesforce may be a $US10 billion tech behemoth but its head of start-up relations Ludo Ulrich says his door is always open to Australian start-ups, as the company looks to tighten its relationship with entrepreneurs Down Under. Mr Ulrich, who previously served as chief development […]

By Kye White.  Originally published in StartUpSmart. The Pledge 1% philanthropy program, created by Salesforce and supported by the likes of Atlassian, is well on the way of meeting the goal it set late last year of signing up 500 companies by December. The program sees participating companies volunteer to divert 1% equity, 1% employee time […]

By Ken Yeung.  Originally published on VentureBeat. Telecommunications API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, Twilio.org, over the next decade. This could generate more than $10 million for the organization. The move comes as part of the 1% pledge that was started in 2014 by Atlassian, the Entrepreneurs […]

By David Callahan.  Originally published on Inside Philanthropy. If you’re attuned to either corporate philanthropy or the tech industry, you’ll know that the Bay Area tech firm, Salesforce, is unusually committed to doing good in the world along with making a profit. Maybe you’ve heard of the “1+1+1” model of philanthropy that founder Marc Benioff embraced […]

By Brad Feld.  Originally published on FeldThoughts. At Foundry Group, we have a deeply held belief that we benefit from our local community (Boulder, in our case) and that we have a responsibility, as we have success, to give back to our local community. My partner Seth Levine just had an excellent OpEd in the Boulder Daily Camera […]

By Nicole Wallace. Originally published on Chronicle of Philanthropy. Jim Fruchterman, who leads Benetech, a nonprofit in the heart of Silicon Valley that uses technology for social good, knows how to get tech donors to give. They love it when he talks about a Benetech program called Bookshare and how he explains that… To read the full article, visit: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Silicon-Valley-vs/230497 Originally […]

By David Swan. Originally published in The Australian. Atlassian co-founder and chief executive Scott Farquhar has ­revealed plans to enable all start-ups to give away 1 per cent of their company to charity and is ­approaching Tony Abbott’s working group on business partnerships for support. Mr Farquhar said that while many start-ups were keen to donate […]

SALESFORCE WORLD TOUR TORONTO—May 14, 2015—Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM company, today announced it is joining forces with the Canadian startup ecosystem. Salesforce also announced a new partnership with Communitech, an innovation centre that provides mentorship, training and resources to help high potential startups scale into profitable technology companies. Additionally, Salesforce […]