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By Chirag Mehta, Founder and CEO, Satrang Technologies   Satrang Technologies is a proud Pledge 1% member, having pledged to give 1% of profit and 1% of staff time to local communities and our environment.  Pledge 1% initiative motivates us to give back something to our society because real happiness is to make other happy.   To […]

At Salesfix, our culture is still evolving. We are a SMB business with big dreams; not just for the business but for the impact we are capable of making on our community and the individuals within, including our own people. Our philanthropic values have become an integral piece of our day to day business, being driven […]

By Joel Markoff, General Manager, Nexus Notes Founded in 2011 in Adelaide Australia, Nexus Notes is a peer to peer marketplace that allows high performing university and professional students to monetise their course summary notes by selling them to students across the globe. Buyers get the benefit of seeing how the top students prepare for exams, and sellers make a passive […]

By Doug Cronin, Pledge 1% Member and Director of Change and Upstander, Our Race Recently someone asked me why are you a Pledge 1% member, you are already giving back so much more than that. My response was that for any significant change to happen, a movement if you will, it takes many voices standing together, […]

Joining Pledge1 has helped us to engage our employees and be more transparent in the way we give to charity – Co-founder Jimmy Lundström We want to create a workplace people are proud to work at – CEO and Co-founder Emil Sjödin At RefinedWiki we aim to instill ‘effective altruism’ into our company culture, and joining Pledge […]

By an Atlassian volunteer. I have a son and a daughter attending public school in Sydney. As an Aussie transplant having grown up in Czechoslovakia, when I moved to Australia, I wanted to learn as much about the Australian education system as I could to try and understand how it is preparing my kids for life in […]

By Carolyn Said.  Originally published on SF Gate. Ever since receiving cochlear implants 15 years ago at age 12, Caroline Clark has wanted to help other hearing-impaired people. She started a foundation, the Baker Institute, to provide speech therapy and offer a weeklong summer camp at Stanford University for hearing-impaired children. Now a product marketing […]

By Therese Poletti.  Originally published on MarketWatch. As #GivingTuesday donation pleas flood social networks and in-boxes today in a worldwide effort to raise attention and funding for nonprofits, some might be skeptical of pleas or philanthropic touts from tech companies, which have an inconsistent reputation for philanthropy. But Pledge 1%, a year-old corporate philanthropy movement, […]