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Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Black History Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Unlock the transformative power of corporate social responsibility—elevate employee engagement and customer loyalty, boost efficiency, and future-proof your business.

Increased employee engagement, improved employee happiness, competitive employer brand…all benefits of corporate volunteering. Dive into the data of why corporate volunteerism is good for your company.

Elevate your ERG’s impact! Learn how to ensure success for your Employee Resource Group with a social impact platform.

Check out “What’s New @ Percent Pledge” where we dive into 3 new features: User Groups, Leaderboards, and Employee Giving Reports.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating National Mentoring Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Armis volunteers ditched spreadsheets for carrots, packing 10,000 meals with Feed the Hungry & Calthorpe Garden - teamwork, smiles, and community spirit filling bellies & building connections.

Workplace giving platforms automate tasks, amplify voices, & empower ERGs to drive real impact. Learn how a CSR platform can make you a more effective DEI leader.

Are global events and daily pressures taking a toll on your mental health? You're not alone. This guide offers practical tips and resources to help you navigate anxiety, cope with crisis, and prioritize well-being during challenging times.

Hercules Capital and Percent Pledge volunteer for Community Servings to help combat food insecurity preparing and packaging 400 meals to help those in need.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Native American Heritage Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Movember is important for your corporate purpose.

Learn why and how celebrating Giving Tuesday and the holiday season is important for your corporate purpose.

Percent Pledge is excited to announce new features for our community. We look forward to helping our community make a difference in the world this holiday season and beyond.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders are increasingly turning to platforms to help them manage their programs more efficiently, drive up participation, and increase their impact. Learn what CSR leaders are doing to gain an advantage by leveraging CSR platforms.

Vidmob partnered with Percent Pledge to plan a vounteer event in Sao Paulo for Brazilian colleagues to give back to their community.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month and National Coming Out Day is important for your corporate purpose.

Learn why and how supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Percent Pledge hosted a Community Volunteer Event during which over 4,000 buildings in Pakistan were mapped and over $7,500 in in-kind donations were made.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how supporting Suicide Prevention Month is important for your corporate purpose.

The Percent Pledge team is constantly working to improve our platform and make it easier for businesses and individuals to give back to the causes they care about. Here are three of the most recent innovations that we're excited to share:

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how supporting Hunger Awareness Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Social impact programs are more than just a way to give back to the community, they have a broad impact affecting employees, company culture, and the bottom line.

By using CSR reporting to inform your ESG reporting, you can help your company achieve its sustainability goals and attract and retain the resources it needs to succeed in the long term. Here’s why.

Discover how CSR can help ERGs improve morale, engagement, and retention, build goodwill with the community, and make a positive impact on the world.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Back to School Month is important for your corporate purpose.

During a virtual volunteer event, Percent Pledge and its community joined forces and mapped communities in Southern Punjab for humanitarian aid organizations preparing for disaster and climate change resiliency planning.

Learn what CSR is, why it's important, and how to get employees engaged in CSR activities. Discover how CSR can improve employee engagement, attract and retain top talent, and improve a company's bottom line.

There is no one-size-fits-all way to structure an ESG committee. There are best practices to follow that ensure the highest chances for success. Most critical is pulling in team members from multiple departments.

Volunteering is a powerful tool for professional development and employee satisfaction. Explore the benefits of volunteering for both employees and employers, along with tips on how to create a successful company-wide volunteering program.

Learn the difference between CSR and ESG, two important concepts that are becoming increasingly important for businesses, employees, customers, and investors. As a People team, discover how CSR and ESG can help your company improve your brand, employee engagement, and more.

CSR programs are known to make a big impact across multiple priorities for an HR team. For that reason Chris Galy believes they are an HR team's best investment.

During a volunteer event, 105 Ilia teammates packed and gifted 5,000 boxes of joy to graduating young women, celebrating their educational accomplishments.

We researched Built In’s 2023 Best Places to Work and found impactful results.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Juneteenth is important for your corporate purpose.

Percent Pledge, a social impact company, celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month in May with a series of self-care initiatives. The company encouraged employees to take care of themselves, check-in on loved ones, and talk about mental health. Get some inspiration for your own celebrations.

During a virtual volunteer event, Percent Pledge and its community joined forces and conducted mock interviews with 19 Per Scholas learners, providing insights into their technical skills and social and emotional intelligence.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month is important for your corporate purpose.

Several companies are finding it critical to celebrate cause holidays with workplace philanthropy. Learn why and how celebrating AAPI Heritage Month is important for your corporate purpose.

During a virtual volunteer event, Percent Pledge and its community joined forces and mapped buildings in the Latakia district in western Syria to support humanitarian aid organizations responding to the earthquake that struck on February 6th.

Follow this step-by-step guide created by social impact experts to create a meaningful and impactful corporate volunteer event.

Deep dive into the dollars donated, volunteer hours served, and the total positive impact our Percent Pledge community made in 2022 vs. 2021.

Percent Pledge releases Percent Pledge Lite, a free to use corporate purpose software, automating employee giving and volunteering programs reducing the effort needed while increasing the impact of corporate social responsibility programs.

Today’s talent market is unlike any other in history, with many referring to it as the Great Talent Race. Employees have more opportunities than ever before, and they aren’t afraid of taking them.

Utilize your workplace philanthropy program and these 5 strategies to engage your unengaged employees.

Volunteering has become the "water cooler" or "softball league" culture activity that's more effective with today's talent, while simultaneously better for your reputation and community. However, managing employee volunteering is difficult, especially for companies with distributed and highly remote teams.

Proactively help employees do good during challenging times with 5 strategies on rapid response workplace giving efforts.

Improve your company culture and employee morale efforts with social impact with industry expert advice and 7 key strategies.

Improve your diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts with social impact with industry expert advice and 6 key strategies.

Improve your employee resource groups (ERGs) with social impact with industry expert advice and 5 key strategies.

Percent Pledge surveyed 3,000+ employees to identify how they want to give back at work, and which social causes they care about most. Explore the employee giving trends and company benchmarks that will improve your workplace giving program and employee engagement.

Percent Pledge launched a completely redesigned new brand and website commensurate with the continued growth of our mission and continued charge to lead The Revolution of Good.

We researched 500 of Built In’s 2022 Best Places to Work and found shockingly impactful results.

From data collecting to identifying company and community benefits, learn the six steps to winning executive buy-in for a corporate social responsibility (CSR) program.

Learn how to build an LGBTQ+ inclusive culture at your company year-round.

It’s that time of year again. Turkey, stuffing, stockings, distracted employees... Here are 9 ideas on engaging your team during the 2021 holiday giving season (with the added benefit of doing some serious good).

Many companies have workplace giving programs but are losing the great marketing opportunity that enhances and grows their business. From job listings to social media posts, learn how to market your corporate purpose to reach and engage all stakeholders.

Considering building a donation matching program? Learn how to create and manage one that is effective, engaging, and impactful and shares your corporate purpose.

Employees, stakeholders, and consumers are now holding companies accountable for the positive impact on social issues and causes. And companies are responding. Learn the benefits of a donation matching program and policy.

2020 caused a positive shift in company proactivity resulting in direct employee conversations. We spoke to HR, DEI, and L&D expert, Tasha Kitty, to discuss how this has resulted in new iterations of DEI, social impact, and ERG programs.

Percent Pledge is SOC2 Type II certified - furthering our commitment and practice to protecting our customers' security, privacy, data, and trust.

For HR, People, and Culture leaders, learn how to best unite your hybrid teams and enhance your company culture with a short list of action items. This piece was in collaboration piece with Evelyn Kwong, Content Manager, and Eileen Lee, VP of People & Culture at PERKS Marketplace.

Sheryl Grant explains why the newfound consciousness around DEI is not enough, what businesses must do to adapt their DEI programs moving forward, and much more in this recent expert interview.

Learn how to align and blend your corporate philanthropy efforts and causes with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) & corporate philanthropy are now must-haves for companies. And while distinct programs, when connected, it will save time while improving outcomes.

Learn how to build an inclusive company culture for women by establishing gender parity, recognizing the importance of work-life balance, elevating women in your broader community, and much more.

Each day now, more and more businesses are adding corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs into their corporate strategies and budgets; in sharpie vs. pencil! So, we interviewed Kendra Fogarty, who runs CSR for UScellular, to provide businesses of any size the information they need to make, manage, and market great corporate philanthropy programs.

Learn how you can empower and support women in your workplace and community from three women business leaders.

Employee resource groups (ERGs) are on the rise, and infusing workplace philanthropy can be the missing ingredient to make your ERGs pop!

Learn how one of our company partners, Table XI, have stepped up to make a long-term, dedicated impact towards DEI for their employees and community through workplace philanthropy.

We researched 400 of Built In’s 2020 Best Places to Work and found shockingly impactful results.

There’s one easy solution to your employee retention challenges – workplace giving. And Percent Pledge is here to help.

Companies need more than a fully stocked fridge to create a strong, sustainable culture. Learn how workplace philanthropy will help you build an authentic company culture.

Live employee volunteering is one of the most positive culture programs. And we have suggestions on how to keep those culture-focused, team-building initiatives alive with virtual skills based volunteering.

Suzy and Percent Pledge announce a joint effort to support tech-related COVID-19 relief efforts in the NYC area. The #NYTechCares program will provide underprivileged kids with the technology they need to continue their education remotely.

We launched our COVID-19 Relief Portfolio to support the communities that are most vulnerable and that desperately need our help. Since our launch in mid-April, we have been incredibly pleased with the response from the corporate community and from our friends at Forbes.

For employees and companies thinking about how to make a positive social impact during this critical time, donate; doing so is now both altruistic AND financially beneficial.

We are proud to announce the release of our COVID-19 Relief Portfolio that gives top-rated nonprofits to donate to and allows companies and employees to make a holistic impact on combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data is clear, today's talent CARES! As a result, leading-edge companies are making workplace giving & employee volunteering programs a core business strategy. With these three tips, you can too.

Scientists recently found a neural link between giving and happiness. So, what does this mean for you, your business's employee happiness?

At Percent Pledge, we believe that doing good is good for business, so we love reading about leaders who share that same belief. Learn from our latest favorites (all from Forbes), written by founders and entrepreneurs who have seen firsthand how workplace giving can accelerate business growth.

CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. CSR encompasses anything a company does to give back, which is becoming increasingly important to today's talent.