Good things come in threes – Like $3 million to help educate children in Cambodia!

Talk about a great start to the new year! We are humbled to share that our Atlassian Foundation has now generated more than $3 million in donations to our partner charity Room to Read, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy and gender equality in education for children across Asia and Africa. This great news comes on […]

Make a Diff: A new way to volunteer

One afternoon, Atlassian co-Founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar walked up to my desk and said, “Melissa… the Foundation needs to do something amazing.” No pressure, right? As the one who is responsible for running the Atlassian Foundation, my first thought was, “How do we top what we’re already doing?” The  Foundation works on a one percent model, where one percent of profit, employee time, […]

Atlassian Pledges $500,000 to Match Room to Read Donation Challenge

For every every dollar up to $500,000 donated to Room to Read’s Checkout Challenge, Atlassian will match it. That’s right – Atlassian will turn half a million dollars in donations into a million. Atlassian’s matching funds will specifically support the creation of school libraries and new books in Cambodia. We’ve been a proud supporter of Room to Read’s projects in Asia since 2009, […]

Atlassian Selects Foundation Grant Recipients

This past December we announced our call for submissions from San Francisco Bay Area non-profits to apply for Atlassian Foundation grants. By offering grants of up to $10,000 to local education-focused organizations, we aim to get more involved with our community and have a direct, positive impact on youth here in the Bay Area. After reviewing numerous applications, our Foundation Council […]

Attention Bay Area Non-Profits: Atlassian Wants to Help Today’s Youth

The Atlassian Foundation gives back in many ways – by giving employees time and funds to support the causes in which they believe, by making direct donations to charities, and by donating Atlassian product licenses to non-profit and Open Source projects. To date, the Atlassian Foundation has donated over $2.5 million and contributed over 1,500 hours to charitable causes […]