22: Joel Pollick | Establish A Giving Habit for Greater Happiness
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Join Corinna Bellizzi as she interviews Joel Pollick, CEO & Founder of Percent Pledge and learn how establishing a giving habit can bring more happiness into your life. You’ll learn how he has helped businesses establish stronger Corporate Social Responsibility programs without so much headache, while retaining employees and inspiring individuals to champion the spirit of giving in their own lives through subscription giving programs.
About Our Guest: Joel Pollick, CEO of Percent Pledge
Joel Pollick, Founder & CEO of Percent Pledge, grew up in philanthropy with his father, Marc Pollick, founding The Giving Back Fund in 1997. With this in mind, and his experience in sales, B2B SaaS, and strategy, Joel founded Percent Pledge as a B2C company providing a better and easier way to give back to any and several nonprofits with a ‘subscription for giving.’ After a year, thoughtful strategy, user tests, and much more, Percent Pledge pivoted as a B2B company, becoming the first solution to create social impact programs that are customizable and affordable for businesses of any size.
Guest Website: https://www.percentpledge.org
00:00 Introduction
02:13 Joel Pennick’s Motivation
05:15 From Idea to Not-For-Profit
08:00 Serving Consumers & Employees First
09:48 Making Giving A Habit
11:30 Bootstrapping / Building A Do-Good Business
13:30 The Connection Between Giving + Happiness
19:00 Building A “Mutual Fund for Giving”
27:27 Pledge Reports / Impact Reports = Retained Engagement
32:40 Vetting Partner Not-For-Profits
36:30 Running a Virtual Company (Pre + Post COVID)
41:00 Next Goal Posts, Simon Sinek & More
44:44 Personal Inspiration
47:00 Takeaways - Options For Giving Programs, Employee Retention & More
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.2 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karna belizzi hello fellow |
| 0:26.0 | do-goaters and friends i'm your host korena belizzi an activist and cause marketer who's passionate |
| 0:31.2 | about social impact and sustainability today we're going to talk about how you can make a difference |
| 0:36.4 | each and every month through |
| 0:38.3 | subscription donations and creative partnerships. But before we get there, I'd like to invite you to |
| 0:43.8 | visit our website, caremorebebetter.com. You can sign up for our newsletter to be the first to gain |
| 0:49.9 | access to new episodes and easily browse past shows on topics that matter most to you. |
| 0:56.3 | You'll find full transcripts, suggestions for actions you can take to make a difference, |
| 1:00.6 | and if you're so inclined, you could even make a donation to support the show. |
| 1:04.6 | You can even join us each week on Clubhouse for live connections. |
| 1:09.3 | It's Wednesday at 2 p.m. Pacific each week. Just follow me on |
| 1:13.3 | Clubhouse at Care More Be Better. Have you made giving a habit? Have you built a pay it forward perspective |
| 1:19.3 | into your day to day? To talk about the perspective of giving, I'm joined by Joel Pollack, |
| 1:25.1 | founder and CEO of Percent Pledge. Joel grew up in the world of philanthropy as his father, Joel Pollock, founder and CEO of Percent Pledge. |
| 1:32.4 | Joel grew up in the world of philanthropy as his father, Mark Pollock, built the giving back fund back in 1997. In a way as an homage to his childhood experience, Joel Pennick founded |
| 1:38.8 | Percent Pledge to provide a better and easier way for people to give back through the power of subscription |
| 1:45.0 | giving. |
| 1:46.3 | Percent Pledge creates social impact programs that are customizable and affordable for businesses |
| 1:51.3 | of any size. |
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