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. 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