### Pledge 1% Profile: Why Giving Back Is So Important

**Data Geeks Lab was profiled by Pledge 1% about why they joined the Pledge 1% movement and why giving back to the community is so important.**

After almost 30 years in the nonprofit sector, TJ Warfield created her own company, Data Geeks Lab, which provides Salesforce setup, coding, and consulting services exclusively for non-profits. Because community is part of Data Geeks Lab’s core values, TJ joined the Pledge 1%.

But when she recently audited her contributions, she realized she was way off track. While her company makes annual charitable donations equal to about 1% of gross income, her direct service hours are way over 1%. In fact, donated staff time makes up 17% of billable hours.

And TJ isn’t planning on reducing this amount anytime soon.

[Read the rest of the story!](http://bit.ly/2TLu6Zh)

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