2007 Grantees

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 new 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' "OEL Egypt" - To help this international charitable organization dedicated to training underserved young people in video production replicate 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 so they can better relate to stereotypes and learn how to overcome them for 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 so that participants can advocate, express themselves and generate income. Article on BBC: Photos bridge Arab-Israeli divide [July 9, 2007]

Asia Pacific:

Room To Read's "Cambodian Computer Room"- To fully fund a computer room to provide 500 students with much-needed training and practical skills that are marketable to employers. An important aspect of improving the education facilities in these countries is providing students with basic IT skills that will make them competitive for employment. The aim is to provide practical skills to children so they can move beyond their economic situation and have incentive to stay in school and pursue careers after graduation. Students gain independence and confidence by learning basic computer skills, which will help break the cycle of poverty.

The Education for Development Foundation's "Salesforce for Young Doctors" project - The overall project is designed to enable rural students in the poor region of northeastern Thailand to become computer literate and self-reliant in health as well as promote leadership and pro-social behavior by prompting them to bring to their school community better health education

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.
Rainforest to Reef - 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 - The implementation of Salesforce is compulsory and imperative for this multi-dimensional and collaborative project as well as the institutionalization of service learning at QUT and GDI. These projects are situated in such a way that they cannot exist without CRM technology given the links, partnerships and coordination necessary between QUT, GDI, multiple local and international businesses, governments, non-profits, donors and students in order to eradicate child labor and serve as a platform to share best practice and technology with grass-roots organizations in developing countries

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.

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