Salesforce.com Foundation Announces 2008 Global Grant Recipients

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.
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"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 www.sharethemodel.org . For more information on the
Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org .
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