Future Leaders Deploys Force.com Sites from Salesforce.com to Help Solve the United Kingdom's Headteacher Shortage
May 06 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Nonprofit deploys cloud computing solution from salesforce.com to
recruit new teachers SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating
philanthropy and business, today announced that Future Leaders, a
United Kingdom-based nonprofit that trains future headteachers for
inner-city schools, has deployed Force.com Sites from
salesforce.com to automate and integrate its geographically diverse
and mobile recruitment process. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/SFW105LOGO) Utilizing
donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses as part of the
Salesforce.com Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program, Future
Leaders has been able to introduce an IT system that is bringing
fresh impetus in the search to replace the ageing population of
headteachers, with 88 per cent of headteachers in the UK set to
retire in the next ten to fifteen years(1). Force.com Sites, a new
capability of the Force.com platform, allows Future Leaders to run
its Web site in salesforce.com's cloud. Force.com Sites gives the
nonprofit the power to publish Force.com data and applications to
any website, extending its reach to candidates on intranets,
external Web sites, and online communities. By running its Web site
on Force.com Sites, Future Leaders can focus on recruiting great
teachers, rather than managing and maintaining IT infrastructure.
"Salesforce.com has significantly changed the way we do things,
removing the hassles and constraints of administration," said
Shirley Gaynor at Future Leaders. "Before salesforce.com, we had a
number of clunky systems, which made accessing data on different
systems take too much time. They wouldn't talk to each other,
details got lost, and time spent trying to recover data was
becoming a major problem. The previous system wasn't working for us
- we were working for it." "Through its 1% product donation
program, the Salesforce.com Foundation gave us access to a system
which could do all the jobs we required," continued Gaynor. "It's
especially great for a company in its early stages like us. It
adapts to our organization and fulfills all our needs. Even though
it's built on Force.com Sites, it's ours. We can do whatever we
want." Future Leaders has used Force.com Sites extensively in its
recruitment process. Candidates being recruited use the site to: --
Register their application -- Complete an application form -- Enter
a case study -- Respond to bookings to an assessment centre and a
teaching observation -- Provide references via a Force.com
Sites-based form Fairsail, a leading Force.com developer, provided
Future Leaders with a fully integrated and structured recruitment
Web site, which is built on the Force.com platform. "Force.com
Sites has allowed Future Leaders to automate all its processes,"
said Colin Cooper at Fairsail. "It provides an array of tools that
allows us to build bespoke systems." "Inadequate technology wastes
the limited resources available to nonprofits," said Isabel Kelly,
International Director of the Salesforce.com Foundation EMEA.
"Force.com Sites provides organizations, both large and small, with
a solution that streamlines all organizational functions, removing
the threat, particularly in times like these, of wasting vital
resources." Force.com Sites is currently scheduled to be generally
available later this year. Please visit
http://www.salesforce.com/servicecloud for more information. About
the Salesforce.com Foundation The Salesforce.com Foundation is the
global leader in integrating philanthropy and business through its
1/1/1 integrated philanthropy Model http://www.sharethemodel.org/.
The 1/1/1 Model harnesses the power of salesforce.com's people and
technology through 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1% Product to increase
the effectiveness of nonprofits in pursuing their social missions.
Since the Foundation's inception in 1999, employees have given more
than 125,000 hours of their time; more than 5,500 nonprofits in 60
countries are using donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses
as part of the Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product; and numerous
organizations are benefiting from technology-related grants. For
more information on the Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/. Copyright (c) 2009
salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce and the "no
software" logo are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.,
and salesforce.com owns other registered and unregistered
trademarks. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners. (1) According to National College for School
Leadership (NCSL) over 88 per cent of Headteachers are over 50
years old, with just under a third aged 55 and over
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