2008 Grant Recipients
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 of connecting 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 the UK, Ukraine and Italy.
- 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.


