Salesforce.com Philanthropy

"The value of a corporation should be fully distributed not only to its leadership, but also to the communities in which operates and the global community as a whole."
Marc Benioff, CEO and chairman of salesforce.com
The end of Philanthropy

Vision
The global leader in fully integrating business and the community by building an inspiring and innovative service model 

Mission
To harness the energy of the salesforce.com community to make a positive difference in people's lives through service and technology-related projects for youth. 

The Integrated Philanthropy Model

 1% Time  

• 3,000 volunteer hours given in 2002

• 10,000 hour goal in 2003

• 85% employee participation

1% Equity  

• 1,000,000 shares of stock

• 200+ individual contributors

 1% Profits

• Over 100 non-profit customers using salesforce.com for free

• Technology for youth

• Over 25,000 people served

41 technology centers in 8 countries

The salesforce.com Foundation is working with other corporations, foundations, youth development agencies, and NGO's who share the mission towards creating a society in which children, regardless of socio-economic background, ethnicity or learning level, have access to technology and understand how to use it to enhance their lives.

The Foundation was launched in July 2000 and has implemented the following programs

• Built and staffed 17 technology centers in after-school programs around San Francisco in partnership with PowerUP and local youth groups.

• Provided and continuing to provide curriculum and training to these Centers in areas such as web-development, basic networking, multimedia production, Flash, Photoshop, and technology curriculum integration.

• Serve approximately 10,000 youth through these programs in the Bay Area each year.

• Launched a fully equipped, multi-media mobile computer technology center to the youth on the Big Island of Hawaii in partnership with Friends of the Future and the Just Think Foundation.

• Gave over 3,700 hours of community service by salesforce.com's 200+ employees in the Centers and around the community since July 2000.

• Equipped 20 international schools with computers, training and internet access. These schools are located in Tibetan Refugee Communities in India and Nepal, in high-conflict areas of Israel and the West Bank, and in Ireland.