Salesforce employees continue to develop our fantastic relationship with salesforce.com user and volunteer partner - Que Rico. This time Alex Rhodes and Vanessa Grandjean went out to support a charity whos goal is to bring education, shelter, food, health and social care to those most in need.
Inspire is the Education and Business Partnership for the London Borough of Hackney. They run a number of different programmes to engage students of all ages with the business community. David took part in their Workweek program which involved him delivering two marketing workshops to a class of primary school kids from The Millfields Primary school.
The latest incarnation of BizAcademy had our young learners from Landmark Training learning all about The Social Enterprise. Their task at the end of the week was to present to a bunch of senior execs as to why compnaies need to embrace the Social Enterprise or have no business! It was a tough ask, but as they always do, they delivered in style
During 2011 Summer Volunteer Weeks, Salesforce.com Tokyo and Osaka office dedicated more than 1,030 hours to the community, and contributed to the social change. | Read more >
The third BizAacdemy in Ireland was the best. This time we partnered with a longstanding partner, Citywise, who provided us with the most amazing cohort of young, enthusiastic, and interesting students. They took to the week passionately and the only problems we had were trying to chose the winners at the end. | Read more >
Vijay Sood went to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology near Thika (about an hour’s drive from Nairobi given the roads there) as a last minute favour and gave a lecture to the students on Cloud Computing
On January 17th began our most successful BizAcademy yet. Students attending Landmark Training in Stratford were 8 weeks through their salesforce.com training program when they joined us for an intensive week designed to help them find salesforce.com related jobs in the future.
