The Salesforce.com Foundation Hosts First Innovation for Nonprofit Success Day
February 13 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
More than 200 nonprofit representatives to join the Salesforce.com
Foundation in New York City for free day of training on how
technology can accelerate their social change missions NEW YORK,
Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Salesforce.com Foundation,
the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today
will host a special event dedicated to driving innovation for
nonprofit success. The event will bring together more than 200
members of salesforce.com's nonprofit community at the Park Central
Hotel in New York City to discuss and learn about the latest
technologies and strategies to fuel their social change missions.
The event also celebrates the milestone that more than 3,000
nonprofits around the world are using donated licenses of
Salesforce to revolutionize their organizations as part of
salesforce.com's unique 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy
model. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) "The
nonprofits we work with are visionary organizations who know that
to effectively accomplish their missions, they need to adopt next
generation strategies and tools to accelerate their impact and
measure outcomes," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the
Salesforce.com Foundation. "In advance of National Corporate
Philanthropy Day next week, we felt inspired to dedicate a day to
helping these innovative organizations get more out of their
Salesforce solutions and gain inspiration from other successful
nonprofits and visionaries. We applaud them for their leadership in
the nonprofit community." The Salesforce.com Foundation Innovation
for Nonprofit Success Day is a free, full-day event packed with
information on the latest technologies and strategies to help
nonprofit organizations achieve new levels of success. In addition
to multiple sessions by the Salesforce.com Foundation and partners
designed for users of all levels, featured speakers include Holly
Ross of the Nonprofit Technology Network, technology experts from
Network for Good, NPower and the United Nations. Salesforce.com
Foundation executive director Suzanne DiBianca will host a
lunchtime panel on the rise of social enterprise, Web 2.0 and the
future of philanthropy with CEOs and executives from
Donorschoose.org, Endeavor.org, Kiva.org and the Rockefeller
Foundation. "Web 2.0 technology such as that from salesforce.com
can have a profound effect on nonprofit organizations who are
constantly looking for ways to improve how they can accomplish
their missions in the face of limited resources," said Holly Ross,
executive director, Nonprofit Technology Network. "I look forward
to meeting with this audience of forward-thinking nonprofit users
of Salesforce technology to discuss the possibilities they can
achieve using next generation technology tools." Innovative
nonprofit organizations will also be on hand to showcase how they
are using Salesforce and partner solutions to better serve their
missions, including the Bronx Lab School, Center for Employment
Opportunities, Global Coalition for HIV/AIDS, iMentor, Kiva.org,
Rainforest Alliance and Year Up. For more information on the
Salesforce.com Foundation's Innovation for Nonprofit Success Event,
please go to http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/. About the
Salesforce.com Product Donation Program The salesforce.com 1%
Product Donation Program provides qualified nonprofits around the
world with unprecedented access to state of the art,
enterprise-class technology to fuel innovation in their
organizations and allow them to spend more time focused on their
missions. Today, more than 3,000 nonprofits are using Salesforce to
manage a wide range of organizational needs including managing
constituent relationships, fundraising campaigns, volunteers,
program delivery, and much more. Salesforce.com donates 10 licenses
to qualified nonprofits. Additional licenses are offered at an 80
percent discount. For more information on this program, please
visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product. Developers
interested in creating applications for nonprofits can get started
for free by joining the Salesforce Developer Network
http://www.salesforce.com/developer/, which provides instant access
to software development tools and information on how to develop on
the Salesforce platform. About Salesforce.com Foundation The
Salesforce.com Foundation is the leader in pioneering, evangelizing
and implementing the 1/1/1 Model, and using this Model as a means
to improve the lives of people around the world. The 1/1/1 Model
harnesses the power of people and technology through 1% Time, 1%
Equity, 1% Product, and being "one" with the earth, to build deep
relationships with communities around the world and increase the
effectiveness of nonprofit organizations in achieving their goals.
The Foundation concentrates on the use of technology, specifically
as it relates to organizations with youth development programs. It
has supported technology projects around the world that help kids
in bereft urban and rural areas access technology to create better
futures for themselves. The 1/1/1 Model has had a profound effect
on salesforce.com and its communities: Since July of 2000,
salesforce.com employees have given over 70,000 hours of their time
and expertise back to the community. More than 3,000 nonprofits in
56 countries around the world are using donated licenses to run
their businesses more efficiently; and numerous organizations are
benefiting from technology related grants from the Foundation. For
more information on the 1/1/1 Model, please visit
http://www.sharethemodel.org/. For more information on the
Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/.
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Foundation CONTACT: Erin O'Keeffe of salesforce.com,
+1-415-536-6150, Web site: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/
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