How can my business participate?

Your business can participate in two ways: by taking the pledge, or becoming a donor.

Pledge Signers participate by taking the Pledge, taking steps to end business relationships with any existing customers that are on the SPLC Extremist Groups List, advertising their participation to customers, and spreading the word to peers. This is a grassroots movement, so sharing your participation is one of the most crucial things you can do to help advance PledgeNoHate!

Donors also give financial support to the administrative, content creation, technology and operational costs of running PledgeNoHate.tech, a fiscally sponsored project of the Nonprofit Technology Network. Members receive credit on our website and our undying gratitude.

PledgeNoHate.tech is centered on the individual businesses that take the pledge, and the elements of their customer engagement that they can directly control. As more businesses commit to the Pledge, evangelize their participation, and educate their customers, the community created through these businesses is what propels PledgeNoHate.tech as a movement. Over time, through a community of practice formed from the businesses engaged with the Pledge, a burgeoning advisory board to PledgeNoHate.tech, and additional content for those businesses that dive deeper into additional areas such as external relationships and partnerships, discrimination, individuals from the SPLC Extremist Files, and supply chains, we hope to create a means to additionally identify these actions as part of the greater PledgeNoHate.tech movement. However, the core Pledge is the starting point.

What does PledgeNoHate.tech cost?

Taking the Pledge is free!

Yearly Donors, including listing on our website, carries a minimum donation of $100 (though we are of course grateful for any amount you’re willing to give).

What can I do with PledgeNoHate.tech?

Your PledgeNoHate.tech annual commitment is a starting point: a floor, not a ceiling. As a Pledge taker, your business can share your participation with your customers and employees, and talk about the value the Pledge brings to your organization’s commitment to corporate social responsibility, your staff, and your other customers.

By taking the Pledge, you also get the ability to display the PledgeNoHate.tech logo on your website, telling your customers, prospects, and job candidates about your commitment to a safer, more just society. We expect that it will start conversations, and many will push further.

Why just the United States?

The SPLC Extremist Groups list is currently the best benchmark available for hate and extremist groups, and it is focused only on organizations inside the United States. As similar lists are created and identified that respect the social and economic structures of other countries, they can, and may, be incorporated into PledgeNoHate.tech.

What about freedom of faith and speech?

PledgeNoHate.tech is not intended to be a barrier to working with organizations that express their beliefs and values through speech, press, assembly and/or petition. Rather, it focuses on actions taken, which is why it leverages the SPLC Extremist Groups list.

Many businesses have asked if PledgeNoHate.tech applies broadly to faith communities and religious institutions, and it does not: these institutions are guaranteed freedom of expression and often do important and life-changing work in their communities.

The American Civil Liberties Union has an in-depth discussion on freedom of speech and expression that covers these distinctions.