The Salesforce.com Foundation Announces its 2010 Technology Innovation Grant Recipients

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced its 2010 Technology Innovation grant recipients, representing organizations from around the world working on issues ranging from poverty to human trafficking to helping at risk children. The Technology Innovation grants are awarded to visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com's technology to support their and others' abilities to implement their social change missions. This year's 15 recipients received a total of $240,000 and access to a dedicated salesforce.com employee volunteer to share their expertise and best practices with the grantee, demonstrating the power of the salesforce.com's 1/1/1 integrated philanthropy model in action.

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• "Congratulations to our 2010 Technology Innovation Grant Recipients," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the Salesforce.com Foundation. "These grants are unique in that they support innovative projects that are leveraging cloud technologies to create tangible social change and provide a deep, measurable benefit to the organization as well as the sector they serve."

The Salesforce.com Foundation's 2010 Technology Innovation Grants Recipients

United States

• Architecture for Humanity – To work with salesforce.com partner Linvio to create a Paypal payment integration solution to allow this nonprofit design services firm to more efficiently manage online donations and fundraising across its organization.
• Grameen Foundation USA – To integrate mobile phone applications with its Salesforce deployment to enable streamlined management of field projects and high quality measurement and evaluation capabilities for field workers in remote and developing countries who are working with the poor.
• Grassroots Soccer – To build an online monitoring and evaluation system to enable health workers in Zambia to improve outcomes by capturing, analyzing, using, and disseminating data in real-time at this nonprofit that uses the power of soccer to educate, inspire and mobilize communities to stop the spread of HIV.
• Groundwire - To continue to grow Groundwire Labs, a set of tools for civic engagement, to integrate core technology platforms to engage people, organizations and communities in building a sustainable society.
• Infinite Family – To build a custom application, to share quantitative life and skill impact evaluations for the teens and pre-teens in South Africa, which inspires and motivates through online video-based mentoring relationships with adults in several countries. 
• Invisible Children - To build a custom application for its Conservation Cotton Initiative in Uganda to collect vital program information including farmer demographic data, acreage, and crop yields, as well as the activities of each farming society as part of its movement to use the transformative power of story to change lives.
• New Leaders for New Schools – To move assessment data from multiple spreadsheets to Salesforce to track, analyze, and report on the progress of its New Leaders, the schools they lead, and the coaches who support their development.
• Playworks - To create a portal for all student data collection and reporting to lessen the workload for in-school staff, eliminate reliance on outside vendors for customized reporting, and ultimately allow for program staff to develop and maintain the highest quality programming possible.
• TransFair USA - To upgrade and open their Licensee Partner Portal to improve data flow and management with their 800 Fair Trade licensees as part of its mission to certify and promote Fair Trade products that cultivate a more equitable global trade model.

Europe, Africa & Asia

• Florenece, Japan - To create a streamlined and scalable system for matching members with sick children to nursing and day care options.
• International Services Ireland, Ireland – To integrate its Impact Assessment Framework and an Organizational Assessment tool into a Knowledge Management System (KMS) which will strengthen the organization's ability to analyze knowledge as part of its mission to combat poverty and oppression.
• Joy Melbourne Inc, Australia – To integrate its membership, fundraising, volunteer, development, and accounting functions with Salesforce at this gay and lesbian volunteer-based community radio station that is committed to providing a voice for the diverse lesbian and gay communities.
• NP Tech, Israel - To encourage Israeli nonprofits to adopt Salesforce as a managerial platform and assist them in adapting it to their needs through the creation of a "do-it-yourself" web-tool for self analysis.
• Polaris Project Japan, Japan – To create a custom application to manage more than 400 human trafficking cases via phone, e-mail, and the internet including streamlining the documentation and data management process as part of its mission to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
• U-Turn Homeless Ministry, South Africa - To deliver their state of the art Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system as a managed application on salesforce.com's AppExchange 2 that will allow other nonprofits to capture and share their service delivery data on a robust and secure platform.

Additional Information

• For more information on evaluation criteria for the grants, visit: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/grants/current-program

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 200,000 hours of their time; more than 9,000 nonprofits in 70 countries are using donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses as part of the Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product/?PR=02232010; and numerous organizations are benefiting from technology-related grants. For more information on the Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org.

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