San Francisco, Oct. 4, 2006
The YMCA of San Francisco, the Salesforce.com Foundation, and KaBOOM! joined forces to build a playground in the Bayview Hunters Point area of San Francisco to launch the Salesforce.com user conference, Dreamforce
More than 140 volunteers from salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), The Bayview YMCA, organizers from KaBOOM! and residents of the Bayview Hunter's Point community gathered on Saturday, October 7th to build a new, safe playground at the Bayview YMCA. The new playground's design is based on drawings from a Design Day event in August, drawn by children who will use the playground.
With this new playground in their neighborhood, the kids of the Bayview Hunter's Point neighborhood have an opportunity to create and imagine. The Bayview Hunter's Point YMCA, in this unique collaboration with Salesforce.com Fooundation and KaBOOM!, strives to help develop strong kids, strong families and strong communities. This playground is one of nearly 200 KaBOOM! will orchestrate across the country in 2006, with the goal of providing a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
The event was an overwhelming success with partners, customers, employees and community member who not only built a playground in under 6 hours, but were able to network and extend, the Power Of Us!
