Salesforce.com Foundation Announces 2008 Global Grant Recipients
July 22 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
15 grantees from 15 countries demonstrate the impact of global
philanthropy leader's 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Salesforce.com
Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and
business, today unveiled its 2008 global grant recipients. These
grants represent the impact of salesforce.com's 1/1/1 integrated
corporate philanthropy Model where 1% of employee time, 1% of the
company's equity, and 1% of the company's product are delivered to
nonprofits. Recipients were chosen from nearly 200 applicants and
scored by advisory groups of salesforce.com employees around the
globe. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO ) "We
applaud the vision and innovation of our 2008 grantees in using
technology to further the advancement of their missions," said
Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the Salesforce.com
Foundation. "It is extremely gratifying to see how Salesforce
technology can uniquely bring success to nonprofits around the
world, whether it's used to improve communication on an
organization's outcomes, to bring together local nonprofits to
better serve constituents, or to manage microfinance programs
across the developing world." The Salesforce.com Foundation
provides two types of grants as part of its 1/1/1 Model. The Turn
It Up grant is designed to support current salesforce.com nonprofit
customers with innovative and replicable project proposals that
want to "Turn Up" their use of Salesforce to provide deeper and
measurable benefit to their organization as well as the greater
sector. The Technology for Youth Development grant is designed for
youth-serving organizations that wish to integrate technology into
their organization in order to further their mission and enhance
the lives of the youth they serve. Unique to the Salesforce.com
Foundation's grant program is the deep involvement of its Council
whose mission is to enhance the success of the grantees by giving
them access to internal salesforce.com resources. Each grantee has
a dedicated sub-committee of salesforce.com employees who serve as
advocates, provide product expertise and foster relationships
amongst the nonprofits for sharing best practices. This program is
a key component of salesforce.com's 1/1/1 Model to deeply integrate
with the nonprofits it serves rather than just providing monetary
support. 2008 "Turn It Up" Grant Recipients United States -- Atlas
Service Corps, Inc. "Turn it Up" International - To expand its use
of Salesforce to manage its administration and outreach to the
global nonprofit community as part of its innovative fellowship
program that brings nonprofit leaders from the developing world to
volunteer in the U.S. -- Bay Area Video Coalition's Salesforce
Expansion - To further develop its Salesforce implementation to
meet the growing need for technology training to support its
mission to connect underserved populations with new opportunities
in media technology. -- MicroMentor's Salesforce Expansion - To
expand its use of Salesforce to deepen relationships with partners
through better communication on the performance and business
outcomes for its program designed to help entrepreneurs grow their
businesses through relationships with experienced peers and
business professionals. -- Association for Effective Schools' K-12
Data Cloud - To use Salesforce to build a data model for use as the
template for K-12 schools to improve instruction through their
access to instructional data. Europe, Africa -- The Great
Generation's Microfinance Capacity Building - To build on the
organization's use of Salesforce to manage microfinance programs
across the developing world in partnership with community-based
organizations. -- U-Turn Homeless Ministry's City-wide Database -
To use Salesforce to create a common platform between nonprofits
operating in Cape Town as part of U-Turn's mission to help the
homeless receive meaningful assistance from organizations seeking
to help them. Asia -- World Toilet Organization's Salesforce
Implementation - To implement Salesforce to help increase
efficiency, productivity with quantifiable impact on fund
generation, partnerships nurtured and network servicing as part of
its mission to improve health and sanitation worldwide through
toilet education and sustainable sanitation. 2008 "Technology for
Youth Development" Grant Recipients United States -- Bay Area
Community Resources' Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning
and Kids Youthline - To reconstruct the Youthline Call Center and
Resource Directory built on Microsoft Access onto Salesforce to
enhance youth development through exposure to and use of new Web
2.0 technology and VoIP. -- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay
Area's Finance Data Integration Project - To expand on the success
of its 2007 grant to integrate fundraising and financial data into
its Salesforce system to free up resources and reduce operational
expenses to focus on its mission of providing high-quality
mentoring experience to young people in the Bay Area. --
Sports4Kids' Salesforce Implementation - To maximize its use of
Salesforce to improve communication with donors, enhance their
recruiting efforts and provide accessible, user-friendly trainings
for community organizations as part of its mission to improve the
health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for
physical activity and safe, meaningful play. -- Streetside Stories'
Media Arts Project at MLK Middle School - To further the mission of
the media arts programs at MLK Middle School which are designed to
cultivate young people's voices, fostering educational equity and
building community, literacy, and arts skills. Europe -- Children
in Crisis d:side Program - To use Salesforce to improve and
maximize the reach of its d:side (drugs: support, information, drug
education) curriculum resource program to schools in nine
countries. -- Kiganda Vocational Centre's mission to transform
lives in Uganda - To improve the administration and outreach
projects of the Centre, and to enable the young people that the
Centre serves to gain access to information on innovations in
farming, technology, health promotion initiatives and business
planning. Asia Pacific -- The Education for Development
Foundation's Salesforce Young Doctors Project - To expand the
technology-assisted health promotion program designed to enable
rural students to become computer literate in an effort to cover
more needy schools, children and communities. -- Polaris Project
Japan's Outreach Website - To build an outreach website for at-risk
youth to prevent teen domestic violence, commercial sexual
exploitation, and other forms of abuse. 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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