The Center for Employment Opportunities Helps Program Participants Return to the Workforce Through Salesforce.com's 1% Product D
April 28 2008 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Salesforce.com's 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model
gives enterprise-class technology back to innovative nonprofits SAN
FRANCISCO, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salesforce.com Foundation,
the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today
announced that The Center for Employment Opportunities, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to helping the formerly incarcerated and
others with criminal records return to the workforce, is using
donated and discounted licenses of Salesforce to improve operations
and increase its overall success as part of salesforce.com's 1%
Product Donation Program http://www.sharethemodel.org/. Using
Force.com and the AppExchange, The Center was able to quickly and
easily customize its Salesforce deployment and add functionality to
meet its specific organizational needs. (Logo:
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"Salesforce has empowered our organization to better collaborate on
furthering the achievements of our participants in the labor force,
which is how we measure our own success," said Brad Dudding, chief
operating officer at The Center for Employment Opportunities.
"We've gained so many benefits from organizing and streamlining
customer data and haven't had to waste time installing and
maintaining software. Salesforce has proven to deliver a tremendous
advantage." After deploying Salesforce, The Center used Force.com
to integrate with a legacy database, and to build and add custom
tabs to track and manage participant, placement and post-placement
information. The nonprofit then turned to salesforce.com's
AppExchange for additional functionality, downloading
Jasper4Salesforce, a reporting tool from JasperSoft; MapQuest for
AppExchange; and crystalreports.com from Business Objects, among
others. "We were looking for a more effective way to track customer
data on work readiness and on job placement and retention, but more
than a database, we needed a better way to access and use our
information in real time," added Dudding. "Salesforce is now used
to support our daily operations, but it also allows us to gather,
report and analyze data more effectively so we can understand and
increase our impact over time." About The Center for Employment
Opportunities The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is
committed to building an open and level playing field for people
with criminal records who are looking for work. The organization
intervenes at the most critical phase -- immediately after release
-- providing rigorous pre-employment training, short-term
transitional job experience, and long-term job development services
leading to support through the first year of permanent employment.
Most men and women returning home from prison are seeking to turn
their lives around. They need jobs. CEO's Vocational Services and
Transitional Jobs programs run concurrently to help employable
people with criminal records manage their re-entry into the
workforce and society. 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, over 3,500 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 the Salesforce.com Foundation The
Salesforce.com Foundation is the leader in pioneering, evangelizing
and implementing the 1/1/1 Model and using it 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 3,500 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,
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