TOMS Veteran Jenise Steverding Joins Pledgeling to Help Build Social Impact Platform
VENICE, Calif., April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Pledgeling, the world's first charitable giving and social impact platform for brands, today announced that Jenise Steverding has joined the team as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. Steverding will be responsible for forging sustainable partnerships between brands and causes that bring to life a company's core values and create lasting impact on the world.
Steverding has spent her career at the intersection of profit and purpose. As an early member of the TOMS Giving team, she played a key role in scaling their famous shoe-giving program to tens of millions of pairs of shoes. During her time at TOMS, she observed first hand the power of a mission-driven brand's impact to change the world and build a profitable company. Steverding later joined the Special Olympics World Games where she worked closely with Corporate Sponsors, including Toyota, Google, and Westfield, on the largest sporting and humanitarian event in the world in 2015.
"Today's most successful brands understand that to become industry leaders and connect with their socially conscious customer and employee base, they have to create products and organizations that integrate mission and giving into their core," explained James Citron, CEO of Pledgeling. "I'm excited to have Jenise join our movement to empower thousands of brands to grow and strengthen their businesses through charitable giving."
"I'm thrilled to join the Pledgeling team as I've experienced what happens when businesses leverage their resources to change the world," said Steverding. "I've witnessed happier employees, growing sales, and critical resources going to causes that change lives. Every brand should be able to add more purpose into their business, and Pledgeling makes it super easy to do."
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Pledgeling is a social enterprise that empowers brands to add mission and purpose into their products and organizations by integrating charitable giving into their customer experiences. Our mobile-first fundraising platform and programs have empowered tens of thousands of consumers, brands and nonprofits to affect change and raised critical funds for thousands of important causes. To join the revolution for good, please visit us at pledgeling.com.
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