Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, has recently announced its 2007 global grant recipients. These grants totaling over $250,000 represent the impact of salesforce.com’s innovative 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.

Representing the 1% equity and 1% product components of the 1/1/1 model, 23 exceptional nonprofit organizations across 10 countries will receive Technology Support Grants for a variety of initiatives aimed at using technology to fuel the success of nonprofits and improve the lives of underserved youth. Recipients were chosen from a pool of over 200 applicants and scored by an advisory group of 60 Salesforce.com employees across eight geographies.

Representing its support for 1% of the employees’ working time being given back to the community, the Salesforce.com Foundation has also awarded both Community Action Team and Dollars for Doers Grants to employees to support their contributions at 46 nonprofit organizations around the world that they are passionate about. These grants recognize the more than 50,000 hours of time that 85% of salesforce.com employees have given to improving their communities.

The 2007 Technology for Youth Development Grant Recipients
These grants are for visionary youth development-focused nonprofit organizations for technology projects or solutions that advance their organizations’ core mission.

United States:

— Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area “S-D Integration Project” –
To create an online web portal using Salesforce technology as a means
to recruit a larger population of volunteers and obtain benchmarked
assessments of a child’s development..

— The Bronx Lab School’s “Classroom 2.0″ — To enable the creation of a
21st century classroom, “Classroom 2.0″, that will radically change
students’ educational experience by providing a flexible and dynamic
workspace for students to use technology throughout all parts of their
day.

— George Mark Children’s House’s “My Comix” — To help this pediatric
respite, transitional, and end of life care facility develop an
interactive comic book game for children who are terminally ill as an
innovative way for them to connect with others, feel less isolated,
and share their stories.

— San Francisco School Volunteers’ “SFSV Tech Grant” — To help fund an
overhaul of SFSV’s technology systems and create an online community
to facilitate the organization’s goal of engaging a community of
volunteers to support San Francisco’s public schools.

Europe, Middle East and Africa

— CityWise’s “City Tek” — To upgrade technology facilities at a youth
center in Ireland to facilitate the organization’s mission to provide
education and social support services to youth in a disadvantaged
community.

— MaAfrika Tikkun’s “Expansion of Youth Development IT Centre” — To
expand the current IT center for students and youth in Alexandra
Township, South Africa, with additional computers and resources as
part of the organization’s mission to uplift, build, and ultimately
transform disadvantaged communities.

— Meningitis Trust’s “Learning Pod” — To re-design and update an online
Learning Pod for young people in the UK to learn about meningitis at
home and school and reduce the potential threat of the disease.
The Mouth That Roars’ “Our Everyday Lives Egypt” – To help this
international charitable organization dedicated to training
underserved young people in video production expand the success of its
media programs in Bahariya, Egypt.

— The Parents Circle’s “Internet Youth Seminar” in Israel/Palestine –
To help the organization leverage Internet technology such as blogs as
a tool to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students
to achieve a better understanding of the conflict and a closer
association between participants.

— PhotoVoice’s “PhotoVoice Network” — To expand an online forum to
allow interactive blogging, exchange, and translation services for
participants in this UK organization’s worldwide program dedicated to
driving positive social change for marginalized youth through
photographic training.

Asia Pacific region:

— Room To Read’s “Cambodian Computer Room” — To fully fund a computer
room to give approximately 500 students access to computers, helping
them to improve their computer literacy and motivating them to stay in
school as part of the organization’s mission to partner with local
communities throughout the developing world to establish schools,
libraries, and other educational infrastructure to ultimately improve
socioeconomic conditions.

— The Education for Development Foundation’s “Salesforce for Young
Doctors” project — To help fund a Salesforce technology-based health
promotion program where students in Japan and Thailand will act as a
medium for health education in their own school communities.

The 2007 “Turn It Up” Grant Recipients

These grants are for visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com technology to support their ability to implement their social change mission.

United States and Mexico:

— The Aidmatrix Foundation — To expand the organization’s use of
Salesforce technology being used as a National Donations Management
platform connecting FEMA, state offices, companies and relief
organizations in times of disaster.

— The Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross — To provide
additional resources to help the organization expand its use of its
Salesforce system so it can more effectively manage external
partnerships and help the Chapter realize its goal of preparing one
million San Francisco Bay Area residents for disaster.

— The Center for What Works — To implement Salesforce technology at
this organization dedicated to improving performance in the social
sector in order to develop outcome tracking and measurement technology
to benefit other nonprofits.

— Family Services Agency of San Francisco — To help this organization
dedicated to supporting the city’s neediest residents develop a method
for tracking outcome measures into its existing Salesforce case
management system as dictated by the State of CA.

— The Friends of Calakmul — To integrate the organization’s Salesforce
system with PayPal to automate communications and transactions with
landowners in Mexico, who have agreed to give up logging rights in
Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico in exchange for economic
assistance.

— Hamilton Family Center — To implement a database being built by
salesforce.com volunteers to measure the effectiveness of programs
providing support for homeless and low-income families.

— Kiva.org — To help Kiva.org, the first non-profit focused on fighting
global poverty by enabling socially-conscious internet users to
connect and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the
developing world, standardize data collection strategies from micro-
finance partners utilizing Salesforce technology.

Australia

— Good Deeds International’s Partnership with Queensland University of
Technology — To help fund a joint service learning (sL) project
between the two organizations to unite University staff and students
with local and international non-profit organizations, as well as
local businesses, government and donors in voluntary, reflection-based
sL partnerships directly linked to university curriculum, philanthropy
and University activities. Good Deeds International will gain
University resources and funds raised by student volunteers to benefit
child laborers, their families and their communities.

Europe

— YouthNet — To implement Salesforce technology at YouthNet to run an
online knowledgebase and better serve partner organizations at the
UK’s first “virtual” charity to support 16-24 year olds in every
aspect of their lives.

— Ashoka — To expand its Salesforce implementation in Europe in order
to better measure the social impact and transparency of its projects
aimed at deploying system changing solutions for the world’s most
urgent social problems.

— Jack and Jill’s Children’s Foundation — To match a Salesforce.com
employee’s donation in Ireland to implement Salesforce technology to
improve relationships between fundraisers and donors and supporters
for this charity focused on helping to alleviate the pressures on the
families of babies who are born with or develop severe developmental
delay and life limiting conditions.

Salesforce.com 1% Time Volunteer Grant Recipients

— These grants were given to 46 organizations around the world to
support salesforce.com employee volunteering both individually and in
teams throughout the company. These organizations include Habitat for
Humanity, the Irish Cancer Society, National Kidney Foundation, the
New York City Rescue Mission, Ronald McDonald House Charities, San
Francisco Food Bank, and United Way Sydney.

About Salesforce.com Foundation
The Salesforce.com Foundation mission is to remain the leaders in pioneering, evangelizing and implementing the 1% Model, and using this model as a means to improve the lives of people around the world. The Salesforce.com Foundation harnesses the power of product and people to improve the lives of those in need. Using the unique 1/1/1 Model — 1% Time, 1% Equity, 1% Product, and “one” with the earth — the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations so they can better achieve their goals, which the Salesforce.com Foundation calls the Power of Us. The Salesforce.com Foundation concentrates on the use of technology, specifically as it relates to organizations with youth development programs. The Salesforce.com Foundation has supported technology projects around the world that help kids in technology — bereft urban and rural areas create a better future for themselves. Since July of 2000, salesforce.com employees have given over 50,000 hours of their time and expertise, feeding the homeless, tutoring kids, improving nonprofit spaces, and offering hundreds of helping hands when the world is faced with devastating natural disasters.

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