Thursday, February 23, 2017
Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer
Over the past two years, Silicon Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations.
At the same time—and while less profitable—each was already giving back as a member of Pledge 1%, an initiative for companies to donate at least 1% of their time, equity, or product annually to charity.
Since the program launched over two years ago, more than 1,300 companies in 38 countries have joined...