Salesforce.com Foundation and Dell Redefine How Businesses Approach Environmental Leadership
September 26 2007 - 2:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Integrated corporate philanthropy leader becomes founding partner
of Dell's 'Plant a Forest for Me' program SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26
/PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in
integrating philanthropy and business, today announced it is
joining with Dell Inc. to redefine the way businesses approach
environmental leadership. As a founding member of Dell's "Plant a
Forest for Me" program, the Salesforce.com Foundation is joining
forces with other worldwide business leaders including ABN AMRO,
AMD, Ask.com and WellPoint to share best practices and facilitate
the planting of millions of trees in sustainably managed
reforestation projects. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "We
applaud Dell for bringing together this group of industry leaders
to use our combined power to improve how businesses can take an
environmental leadership role," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive
director of the Salesforce.com Foundation. "As part of our
integrated 1/1/1 corporate philanthropy model, we believe strongly
in the importance of environmental sustainability and engaging with
the business community in contributing to effective solutions for
the climate crisis." Dell launched "Plant a Tree for Me" in January
2007 to provide consumers the opportunity to offset the CO2
emissions related to the use of their computer equipment. The
company partners with The Conservation Fund and Carbonfund.org,
non-profit organizations that plant trees in sustainably managed
reforestation projects. "Protecting our climate is one of the most
important and difficult challenges we face today," said Tod
Arbogast, director of Sustainable Business at Dell Inc. "We commend
the Salesforce.com Foundation for playing a vital role in building
a worldwide community of partners dedicated to a cleaner
environment. Our shared earth deserves no less." Beginning today,
any organization can partner with Dell and the Salesforce.com
Foundation in "Plant a Forest for Me." Other founding partners
include ABN AMRO, AMD, Ask.com and WellPoint. For more information,
visit http://www.dell.com/plantaforest. 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.
Force.com, 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. Force.com
allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed
with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange
marketplace, 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
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