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With the holiday season upon us, we wanted to highlight one of the great non-profit organizations that chooses to send their email through SendGrid. DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that helps people find and then help fund school projects they would like to support. DonorsChoose.org pioneered the idea of crowdfunding for charity in April 2000. Today, nearly 66,000 schools participate in sharing classroom projects that need additional support from donors. How DonorsChoose.org Works Teachers from all over the country can post projects on DonorsChoose.org that need to be funded. Types of projects can include: Field trips Books Team sports Art…

The following post is from People Operations Generalist, Emily Staebell, and Corporate Recruiter, Margho Dunahoo-Kirsch, who help manage the Return to Work program at SendGrid. In support of SendGrid’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, they share details of the program and its participants below.  Return to Work Here at SendGrid, we are always striving to think of the next out of the box idea to hire the best of the best for our company. Opportunity came knocking on SendGrid’s door when we were invited to participate in the third wave of Return Path’s Return to Work (ReturnShip) program this fall. The pivotal…

It has been approximately one year since we publicly released our diversity and inclusion figures and strategy. Joining other progressive tech companies, we view diversity as a key driver of our company’s success. We also feel it is important to be transparent and shine the light on the ongoing efforts needed to be a more diverse and inclusive organization and industry. Today, we would like to update our statistics, progress, and share an evolved plan. By the Numbers Let’s take a glance into our diversity figures and compare year over year. First, some quick context on how we categorize tech…

Deliverability rates have you down? Marketing Manager at Photobucket, Derek Cann, isn’t burdened by deliverability rates, but he certainly knows where you’re coming from. Photobucket is the first and largest online photo and video-hosting site that also offers backup and linking features. They also host a print shop where users can print their photos. What does this have to do with email marketing? Photobucket’s photo and video hosting features, coupled with the print side of their business, means that they have different users with unique needs. In order to deliver wanted email to their customers, they rely on A/B testing, segmentation, and first-class deliverability.…

We invite you to join us at our new Redwood City office for a tech meetup happy hour on June 25th at 6pm. Come meet some great people and get a glimpse of the bold new features and products SendGrid is bringing to email. In early April, SendGrid opened a new 5,775 square-foot office in Redwood City, California. The office, a block away from Caltrain, features many collaborative areas, an open bullpen environment, new 27-inch Macs, electronic standing/sitting desks and our favorite, two massive murals, by our own Chelsea Hart, who was just featured in The Denver Post.   Office Highlights This new…

What Happened On April 8, the SendGrid account of a Bitcoin-related customer was compromised and used to send phishing emails. We initially believed that this account takeover was an isolated incident and worked with our customer to help them recover control of their account and minimize the damage of the attack. After further investigation in collaboration with law enforcement and FireEye’s (Mandiant) Incident Response Team, we became aware that a SendGrid employee’s account had been compromised by a cyber criminal and used to access several of our internal systems on three separate dates in February and March 2015. These systems…

Yesterday afternoon, the SendGrid account of a Bitcoin-related customer was compromised and used to send a phish, baiting them to transfer Bitcoins to multiple bad actor accounts, promising interest payments. We worked with the customer to help them recover control of their account and to minimize the damage of the attack. This incident was an isolated attack on one SendGrid customer. A NYT Bits Blog post has reported that users of other Bitcoin-related businesses have been targeted this week with phishing attacks via other email service providers as well. SendGrid encourages ALL of our customers to enable two-factor authentication, which can…