Salesforce.com Foundation Announces 2007 Global Grant Recipients Across Its 1/1/1 Integrated Philanthropy Model
July 10 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Worldwide Technology Support Grants recognize 23 organizations in
10 countries SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com
Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and
business, today announced its 2007 global grant recipients. These
grants totaling over $250,000 represent the impact of
salesforce.com's innovative 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy
model where 1% of employee time, 1% of the company's equity, and 1%
of the company's product are delivered to nonprofits. (Logo:
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Representing the 1% equity and 1% product components of the 1/1/1
model, 23 exceptional nonprofit organizations across 10 countries
will receive Technology Support Grants for a variety of initiatives
aimed at using technology to fuel the success of nonprofits and
improve the lives of underserved youth. Recipients were chosen from
a pool of over 200 applicants and scored by an advisory group of 60
Salesforce.com employees across eight geographies. Representing its
support for 1% of the employees' working time being given back to
the community, the Salesforce.com Foundation has also awarded both
Community Action Team and Dollars for Doers Grants to employees to
support their contributions at 46 nonprofit organizations around
the world that they are passionate about. These grants recognize
the more than 50,000 hours of time that 85% of salesforce.com
employees have given to improving their communities. "These grants
represent the power of our 1/1/1 model in bringing together our
people, expertise and funding to improve the communities we live
and work in," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the
Salesforce.com Foundation. "Whether it's the creation of a computer
lab in Cambodia to improve literacy, enabling meaningful Internet
communication between Israeli and Palestine students, or creating
interactive comic book games to help terminally ill children
express their feelings, we admire the countless ways our employees
and technology are helping nonprofits around the world to make
social change." The 2007 Technology for Youth Development Grant
Recipients These grants are for visionary youth development-focused
nonprofit organizations for technology projects or solutions that
advance their organizations' core mission. United States: -- Big
Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area "S-D Integration Project" --
To create an online web portal using Salesforce technology as a
means to recruit a larger population of volunteers and obtain
benchmarked assessments of a child's development.. -- The Bronx Lab
School's "Classroom 2.0" -- To enable the creation of a 21st
century classroom, "Classroom 2.0", that will radically change
students' educational experience by providing a flexible and
dynamic workspace for students to use technology throughout all
parts of their day. -- George Mark Children's House's "My Comix" --
To help this pediatric respite, transitional, and end of life care
facility develop an interactive comic book game for children who
are terminally ill as an innovative way for them to connect with
others, feel less isolated, and share their stories. -- San
Francisco School Volunteers' "SFSV Tech Grant" -- To help fund an
overhaul of SFSV's technology systems and create an online
community to facilitate the organization's goal of engaging a
community of volunteers to support San Francisco's public schools.
Europe, Middle East and Africa -- CityWise's "City Tek" -- To
upgrade technology facilities at a youth center in Ireland to
facilitate the organization's mission to provide education and
social support services to youth in a disadvantaged community. --
MaAfrika Tikkun's "Expansion of Youth Development IT Centre" -- To
expand the current IT center for students and youth in Alexandra
Township, South Africa, with additional computers and resources as
part of the organization's mission to uplift, build, and ultimately
transform disadvantaged communities. -- Meningitis Trust's
"Learning Pod" -- To re-design and update an online Learning Pod
for young people in the UK to learn about meningitis at home and
school and reduce the potential threat of the disease. The Mouth
That Roars' "Our Everyday Lives Egypt" - To help this international
charitable organization dedicated to training underserved young
people in video production expand the success of its media programs
in Bahariya, Egypt. -- The Parents Circle's "Internet Youth
Seminar" in Israel/Palestine -- To help the organization leverage
Internet technology such as blogs as a tool to facilitate dialogue
between Israeli and Palestinian students to achieve a better
understanding of the conflict and a closer association between
participants. -- PhotoVoice's "PhotoVoice Network" -- To expand an
online forum to allow interactive blogging, exchange, and
translation services for participants in this UK organization's
worldwide program dedicated to driving positive social change for
marginalized youth through photographic training. Asia Pacific
region: -- Room To Read's "Cambodian Computer Room" -- To fully
fund a computer room to give approximately 500 students access to
computers, helping them to improve their computer literacy and
motivating them to stay in school as part of the organization's
mission to partner with local communities throughout the developing
world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational
infrastructure to ultimately improve socioeconomic conditions. --
The Education for Development Foundation's "Salesforce for Young
Doctors" project -- To help fund a Salesforce technology-based
health promotion program where students in Japan and Thailand will
act as a medium for health education in their own school
communities. The 2007 "Turn It Up" Grant Recipients These grants
are for visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their
use of salesforce.com technology to support their ability to
implement their social change mission. United States and Mexico: --
The Aidmatrix Foundation -- To expand the organization's use of
Salesforce technology being used as a National Donations Management
platform connecting FEMA, state offices, companies and relief
organizations in times of disaster. -- The Bay Area Chapter of the
American Red Cross -- To provide additional resources to help the
organization expand its use of its Salesforce system so it can more
effectively manage external partnerships and help the Chapter
realize its goal of preparing one million San Francisco Bay Area
residents for disaster. -- The Center for What Works -- To
implement Salesforce technology at this organization dedicated to
improving performance in the social sector in order to develop
outcome tracking and measurement technology to benefit other
nonprofits. -- Family Services Agency of San Francisco -- To help
this organization dedicated to supporting the city's neediest
residents develop a method for tracking outcome measures into its
existing Salesforce case management system as dictated by the State
of CA. -- The Friends of Calakmul -- To integrate the
organization's Salesforce system with PayPal to automate
communications and transactions with landowners in Mexico, who have
agreed to give up logging rights in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in
Mexico in exchange for economic assistance. -- Hamilton Family
Center -- To implement a database being built by salesforce.com
volunteers to measure the effectiveness of programs providing
support for homeless and low-income families. -- Kiva.org -- To
help Kiva.org, the first non-profit focused on fighting global
poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to connect
and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the
developing world, standardize data collection strategies from
micro- finance partners utilizing Salesforce technology. Australia
-- Good Deeds International's Partnership with Queensland
University of Technology -- To help fund a joint service learning
(sL) project between the two organizations to unite University
staff and students with local and international non-profit
organizations, as well as local businesses, government and donors
in voluntary, reflection-based sL partnerships directly linked to
university curriculum, philanthropy and University activities. Good
Deeds International will gain University resources and funds raised
by student volunteers to benefit child laborers, their families and
their communities. Europe -- YouthNet -- To implement Salesforce
technology at YouthNet to run an online knowledgebase and better
serve partner organizations at the UK's first "virtual" charity to
support 16-24 year olds in every aspect of their lives. -- Ashoka
-- To expand its Salesforce implementation in Europe in order to
better measure the social impact and transparency of its projects
aimed at deploying system changing solutions for the world's most
urgent social problems. -- Jack and Jill's Children's Foundation --
To match a Salesforce.com employee's donation in Ireland to
implement Salesforce technology to improve relationships between
fundraisers and donors and supporters for this charity focused on
helping to alleviate the pressures on the families of babies who
are born with or develop severe developmental delay and life
limiting conditions. Salesforce.com 1% Time Volunteer Grant
Recipients -- These grants were given to 46 organizations around
the world to support salesforce.com employee volunteering both
individually and in teams throughout the company. These
organizations include Habitat for Humanity, the Irish Cancer
Society, National Kidney Foundation, the New York City Rescue
Mission, Ronald McDonald House Charities, San Francisco Food Bank,
and United Way Sydney. About Salesforce.com Foundation The
Salesforce.com Foundation mission is to remain the leaders in
pioneering, evangelizing and implementing the 1% Model, and using
this model as a means to improve the lives of people around the
world. The Salesforce.com Foundation harnesses the power of product
and people to improve the lives of those in need. Using the unique
1/1/1 Model -- 1% Time, 1% Equity, 1% Product, and "one" with the
earth -- the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases
the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations so they can better
achieve their goals, which the Salesforce.com Foundation calls the
Power of Us. The Salesforce.com Foundation concentrates on the use
of technology, specifically as it relates to organizations with
youth development programs. The Salesforce.com Foundation has
supported technology projects around the world that help kids in
technology -- bereft urban and rural areas create a better future
for themselves. Since July of 2000, salesforce.com employees have
given over 50,000 hours of their time and expertise, feeding the
homeless, tutoring kids, improving nonprofit spaces, and offering
hundreds of helping hands when the world is faced with devastating
natural disasters. Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of
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CONTACT: Erin O'Keeffe of salesforce.com, +1-415-536-6150, ; or
Isabel Kelly of Salesforce.com Foundation, Europe, Middle East,
Africa, 44 (0)7971 471269, ; or Julie Trell of Salesforce.com
Foundation, Asia Pacific, 65.6302.5774, Web site:
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