Grantees 2002
2002 Small Grants Program Sponsors and Recipients
Youth Arts Week
Salesforce.com Product Marketing director, Doug Farber’s wife, Sue Ten, is actively committed to the annual San Francisco Youth Arts Festival. This weeklong celebration of local youth artists brought Doug and many salesforce.com volunteers out to talk with youth during the Festival and offer and obtain fresh perspectives on digital photography as they video taped the interviews to showcase the youth artful interpretations.
Western Addition Community Technology Center
This Foundation 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 them 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 and highlighted at www.youthspace.net.
Toast To Tutoring
Brian Millham, Salesforce.com Sales, supports his wife, Laura’s involvement in the Buena Vista Auxiliary and her efforts to raise money for children’s literacy. He obtained a grant to assist her in raising funds for literacy and volunteered with his wife for the Auxiliary.
Jamestown Community Center
Pete Wooster, Salesforce.com Sales, supports his wife, Lisa’s involvement with this Mission Neighborhood based organization in San Francisco offering youth development programs. The Foundation donated funds 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 Walk-a-Thon and AIDS Project L.A.
Frank van Veenandaal, Salesforce.com Sales, supports his wife, Leslie’s athletic endeavors which support AIDS and Breast Cancer research and awareness. Leslie road her bike and walked hundreds of miles for cures for these diseases with grants from the Foundation. Salesforce.com Customer Support employees, Nancye Michaelian, Cindi Pardini and Sheila Otvos also walked 60 miles for Breast Cancer along with Leslie and 4,400 other participants through a Foundation grant.
St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Impaired
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’s partner, Elaine, works with this school. 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.
Child Advocates and Team Sheeper
Salesforce.com employees, Carter Busse, Systems Engineering, Erik Mall, Sales, Drew Sechrist, Sales, Matt Stodonnic, Marketing, and Tom Richards, Sales, demonstrated techniques, tips and tricks for succeeding in triathlon events during Team Sheeper’s triathlon training event benefiting Child Advocates in Marin County
Quinnipaic Univerisity Online – The Philip Quinlan Appeal Fund
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.
The Burt Children Center Technology Project
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 and enlisted the help of salesforce.com volunteers to ensure the project’s successful implementation. With a grant from the Foundation, this center received five computers, desks, a copy/printer/fax/scanner machine and a year of DSL. The center also received scores of volunteer hours to see this recent Foundation technology center come to life.
Nairobi Technology Project
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. The U.S. and EMEA Foundation advisory boards facilitated this project as it was economically and strategically challenging because of the Foundation’s unfamiliarity with this geographical area. Eugene will travel to Nairobi in March 2003 to launch this most recent Foundation technology center.
