Our commitment to employees involved with philanthropic initiatives and organizations continues in the Foundation’s third year of operation. Grants were awarded totaled over $75,000.

Youth Arts Week

, San Francisco, California

For the second year in a row, this weeklong celebration of local youth artists brought many salesforce.com volunteers out of the office and engaging with youth. During the Festival employees talked with youth and obtained fresh perspectives on digital photography as they video taped the interviews to showcase the youth artful interpretations.

Western Addition Community Technology Center
, San Francisco, California

This Salesforce.com Foundation supported Beacon Center received a grant to learn about and use multi-media to publish youth voice. Salesforce.com Sales Team members, Andy Maston, John Gilman and Bryan Breckinridge committed volunteer time to this center to help youth build their multi-media skills. The result was the production of the kids’ first video, A-Z of Western Addition presented to hundreds of students and parents at the school.

Buena Vista Auxillary, Diablo Valley, Calfornia

For the third year in a row, Brian Millham, championed a grant for the Buena Vista Auxiliary to volunteer at and raise money for children’s literacy at this Toast to Tutoring annual event.

Jamestown Community Center
, San Francisco, California

Pete Wooster and his wife are involved with this Mission Neighborhood based organization in San Francisco offering youth development programs. The Foundation awarded a grant for an art teacher for the summer programs and invited the art teacher to the salesforce.com offices along with her students. Here, the kids participated in art projects with the salesforce.com employee volunteers and toured the office.

Avon Breast Cancer Three Day, San Jose to San Francisco, California

For the second year in a row, Salesforce.com Customer Support employees, Nancye Michaelian, Cindi Pardini and Sheila Otvos walked 60 miles to support the fight to end breast cancer deaths while celebrating the lives of those affected by the disease.

Child Advocates, Marin County, California

Salesforce.com employees, Carter Busse, Erik Mall, Drew Sechrist, Matt Stodonnic, and Tom Richards, demonstrated techniques, tips and tricks for succeeding in triathlon events during Team Sheeper’s triathlon training event benefiting Child Advocates in Marin County

The Burt Children Center Technology Project
, San Francisco, California

This rehabilitation home for physically and mentally abused adolescents in San Francisco received a computer lab from the Foundation after a salesforce.com employee initiated a small grant request. With a grant from the Foundation, this center received equipment to run a successful technology center for the youth at this school. The center also received scores of volunteer hours to see this recent Foundation technology center come to life.

International

Nairobi Technology Project,
 Nairobi, Kenya

The Nairobi Project, the Foundation’s first African technology center, was initiated through a small grant application from Eugene Hillery, salesforce.com EMEA Finance. The effort will provide up-to-date technology equipment and internet access to St. Martin’s Girls Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya. Eugene will travel to Nairobi in March 2003 to launch this most recent Foundation technology center.

Quinnipaic Univerisity Online—The Philip Quinlan Appeal Fund,
 Dublin, Ireland

Anneliese Hynes of salesforce.com EMEA Sales participated in the Q-Eliminator to help raise funds in the name of a friend who was paralyzed from the waist down.

St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Impaired
, Dublin, Ireland

Mark Stanley, salesforce.com EMEA Website Developer, ran in the Dublin City Mini Marathon in Ireland to raise funds to support this school that caters to visually impaired children from pre-school to secondary level and is operated entirely from donations and fund raising. Mark has helped this school establish an ongoing relationship with salesforce.com by also inviting kids from the school to ice skate with the employees over the holidays.