DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As part
of its drive to remove paper from the process of doing business, DocuSign Inc. (NADSAQ:DOCU) today announced its 'DocuSign for Forests' initiative—a broad commitment to help protect the world's forests that includes
financial donations, broad scale support of non-profit organizations, and a commitment to donate 1% of expanded revenues earned
from customers that pledge to improve their paper-use practices.
The initiative was unveiled at the 'Fighting for Forests' session during the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2019 in Davos today alongside several sustainability luminaries—including Jane
Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace; Thomas Friedman, author and New York Times columnist; Paul
Polman, outgoing Unilever CEO and co-founder of the Tropical Forests Alliance; and Suzanne
DiBianca, EVP of corporate relations and chief philanthropy officer at Salesforce.
As part of the DocuSign for Forests initiative, DocuSign will initially commit $1.5M this
year to support organizations doing critical work to preserve the world's forests—and it will continue to donate more over
time.
This includes an immediate grant of $1M to the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation—a non-profit
organization announced today to ensure that Dr. Goodall's tireless work to protect the environment can continue to benefit future
generations. The commitment to the Foundation will come in equal parts from the DocuSign IMPACT Foundation and from company CEO Dan Springer in his
personal capacity. The remaining $500,000 will then be earmarked for other forest-focused
organizations.
DocuSign will also invite new and existing customers to improve their environmental and paper-use practices by taking a pledge
at docusign.com/forests, and by moving more of their paper-based processes onto DocuSign. In return, the company
will donate 1% of the expanded revenue from those customers to forest-protection causes. It will also add a calculator into its
core eSignature product to showcase how people are reducing waste and positively impacting the environment—and they can also
evaluate their green score at docusign.com/esign/green-score.
"As a company whose core offering is inherently forest-friendly, we are helping to save hundreds of trees every day as our
more than 450,000 customers around the world decrease their use of paper. As a result, we believe we can galvanize even more
people to act to protect the world's forests," said Springer. "We want everyone to ask whether it's necessary to print
documentation, and if so to print as little as possible. We want them to recycle all their discarded paper. And we want them to
continue embracing technology to digitize as many of their business processes as possible."
In terms of the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation, for almost 60 years Dr. Goodall has pioneered our understanding of the animal
kingdom and the environment at large—as well as the harm that humanity is inflicting on it, and solutions for protecting it as a
result. The Foundation seeks to support innovative, scalable global solutions that serve to address the critical balance between
preserving nature and meeting the needs of humankind.
"I have launched the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation in the hope that we can create an endowment that will enable the programs
I have developed to continue, new ones to be initiated, and so that the fight for the good of the natural world will continue
beyond my lifetime," said Dr. Goodall. "DocuSign and Dan Springer are among the first supporters
of the Foundation, and I am delighted to partner with them in our goal of protecting and restoring the planet's resources."
"DocuSign's new initiative is an impactful commitment to environmental causes that reinforces the mission of Pledge 1%, while addressing one of the world's most urgent and important challenges: climate change," said
Suzanne DiBianca, EVP of corporate relations and chief philanthropy officer at Salesforce. "At
Salesforce we believe that every business can be a platform for positive change and we co-founded Pledge 1% with the intention of
evangelizing that message. We're thrilled to see DocuSign implementing a bold commitment like this and hope others sign the
pledge to make early-stage philanthropy the standard."
For more information please visit docusign.com/forests.
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Head of Communications
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VP Investor Relations
investors@docusign.com
About DocuSign, Inc.
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cloud-based System of Agreement Platform, DocuSign offers eSignature—the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any
device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, more than 450,000 customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180
countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives.
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