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Atlassian Foundation raises $US191k for charity in one month

That's right. Atlassians are a generous bunch, digging deep and donating almost $200,000 to their favourite charities in just one month. So how did it happen? Well, we like to call it "Double Donation Matching in May" - for every $1 Atlassians donated, the Atlassian Foundation double matched it. The result: Double Happiness. Here's the equation: $1 = $3 $1000 = $3000 €500 = €1500   For the month of May, up to $2,000 per person was double matched by the Foundation. And

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Atlassian Named a 2012 ComputerWorld Honors Laureate

On Monday night, we were named a 2012 Honors Laureate by IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program in Washington, D.C. The annual award program honors visionary applications of IT promoting positive social, economic and educational change. Thanks to Morgan Stanley, we were nominated in the Collaboration category–which recognizes organizations for the innovative use of IT to promote knowledge-sharing and enable collaboration on mutually beneficial economic, social, environmental, health or research

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Win $10,000 for your charity or non-profit

The Atlassian Do-Gooder Award is back! Open to our Community License holders, the Do-Gooder award is a competition that simply asks: what's your story? The best story-teller, ie, the winner of the competition, will win a $10,000 donation for their non-profit, a free pass to Atlassian Summit to accept the award, a free stay at the event, reimbursement (up to $500) for airfare, and the everlasting admiration of their peers. Past winners include the International Potato Center and Mercy Ships. The

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Guest blog – Mercy Ships, Community License holder

Mercy Ships is a charity which operates hospital ships in developing nations. It was the inaugural winner of Atlassian's new annual award given to a Community License holder. The following guest blog post was written by Anne Barker, Mercy Ships' Information Projects Specialist. Entries for the 2011 Do-Gooder award close on April 25th. We're all pinching pennies these days, whether it's in the grocery budget or cutting down on travel. But the world's poor often don't even have the pennies to

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You did it! Atlassian raises $1 million for Room to Read

This post goes out as a massive thank you to all of our Starter teams. If you're one of our Starter customers, these girls get to go to school because of you. These girls. The ones in the photo. That is a truly amazing, wonderful, incredible thing. Thank you. When Scott and I started Atlassian, we wanted it to be a socially responsible company that cared for the communities it existed within. We never thought that with the help of our customers, we could literally change lives. Atlassian

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