Salesforce.com Foundation Gathers More Than 100 Volunteers from around the World to Improve Children's Centers in San Francisco
September 12 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Kicking off salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2007 conference, volunteers
to do 'extreme makeover' of St. Joseph's Family Center and Westside
Community Center on Saturday, September 15, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO,
Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- To kick off salesforce.com's Dreamforce
2007 conference, the Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader
in integrating philanthropy and business, and sponsoring partner
VerticalResponse, are teaming up with Hands on Bay Area to bring
new life to two children's centers in San Francisco. This annual
event brings together conference attendees including salesforce.com
customers, partners, employees and their families in a unique way
to make a positive impact on salesforce.com's home town. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) What: More
than 100 volunteers from around the world will pick up their paint
brushes to do "extreme makeovers" of two children's centers in San
Francisco When: Saturday, September 15, 2007 from 8:30 to 2:30 PM
PT Where: St. Joseph's Children's Center, 210 10th Street, San
Francisco Westside Community Center, 1153 Oak Street, San Francisco
For more information on salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2007, please
visit http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/. Editor's Note: High
resolution before and after photographs will be available About
Salesforce.com Foundation The Salesforce.com Foundation is the
leader 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 60,000 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. For more information on the
Salesforce.com Foundation and its product donation program, please
visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/. About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand
business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand CRM
applications allows customers to manage and share all of their
sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. The
Salesforce Platform, the world's first on- demand platform, enables
customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand
applications that extend beyond CRM to deliver the benefits of
multi-tenancy and The Business Web across the enterprise. The
Salesforce Platform allows applications to be easily shared,
exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via
salesforce.com's AppExchange directory, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Customers can also take
advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training,
support, consulting and best practices offerings. As of July 31,
2007, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately
35,300 customers including ABN AMRO, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan
Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, Sprint Nextel, and SunTrust Banks.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other
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may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase
salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions
based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com
has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia,
and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol
"CRM". For more information please visit
http://www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO- SOFTWARE. About
VerticalResponse VerticalResponse, Inc.
(http://www.verticalresponse.com/) is a leading provider of
self-service email marketing and direct mail services empowering
businesses of all sizes to create, manage and analyze their own
direct marketing campaigns. VerticalResponse's flagship product,
which customers to deliver sophisticated yet easily deployed email
campaigns, is the most intuitive and affordable Web-based direct
marketing solution available. VerticalResponse is headquartered in
San Francisco, California. For additional information, please visit
http://www.verticalresponse.com/. About Hands On Bay Area Hands On
Bay Area (Hands On) creates social change by mobilizing our
communities, through volunteer management, leadership development
and issues education. Hands On develops, manages and leads
volunteer projects that benefit more than 300 San Francisco Bay
Area nonprofit agencies. Each month, Hands On coordinates and
manages more than 120 community service projects that engage 10,000
volunteers each year. Hands On also designs and manages projects
for corporations that want to support their employees in giving
back to the communities where they work and live. Hands On is an
affiliate of the Hands On Network, an international alliance of
more than 40 volunteer organizations working to build community
through service and civic engagement. For more information about
Hands On Bay Area, visit http://www.handsonbayarea.org/. Copyright
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CONTACT: Erin O'Keeffe of Salesforce.com PR, +1-415-536-6150, Web
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