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Be A Everyday Hero: Singapore and Australia Earth Week 2008

Joyce — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:21:39 -0400

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Singapore and Australia celebrates Earth Week from 16-20 June.

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Singapore and Sydney, 16 - 20 June

A global effort to promote activities to combat global warming was co-ordinated across all the Salesforce offices with localized activities for the respective region. Here are some of the efforts done in the Singapore and Sydney office.

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Sydney

Singapore

Monday

16 Jun

Launch of Earth Week

Lunch time talk by OzGreen.

Launch of Earth Week

Lunch time talk by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC)

Tuesday

17 Jun

Save A Species Day

4 endangered animal species were placed for ‘adoption' - the winner is the Fairy Penguin who won the most votes.

Be a Everyday Hero Day

Pledge and do one ‘save the earth' activity of your choice

Wednesday

18 Jun

Be a Everyday Hero Day

Pledge and do one ‘save the earth' activity of your choice

‘Too Hot to Handle' @ 1130 - 1300

15 employees munched on popcorn and chips as they viewed the movie.

Thursday

19 Jun

Grow A Plant Competition

Each team was given a plant to nurture and make sure it thrives for the next 3 months.

Public Transport Day

The company donated S$280.00 to SEC as a show of support for 28 employees who took public transport that day.

Friday

20 Jun

Green Activity- Plant an Eco Garden

8 employees volunteered to restore a garden with low maintenance plants for a under-resourced family.

These Shoes Are Made for Walking: Southern Ridges Trail

30 employees took a mere 45mins to finish the walk - much faster than what we had expected. We will plan a longer trek for the next round.

All these efforts would have been possible without the Earth Taskforce members' initiatives, energy, and tenacity to get things done. They are:

Australia organisers: Andy Maston, Emma Robinson and Grant Symes
Singapore organisers: Benson Wong, PJ Leong, Veronica Rao, Luke Lin, Cheryl Teo, Sarah Yeom, Angie Lin, Vivian Lee

Big round of applause to all these volunteers!!!!!

Dine in the Dark- A different sort of volunteering

Joyce — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:52:49 -0400

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Employees tried eating their lunch in complete darkness to glimpse the world which the visually handicapped lived in.

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Singapore, 13 June 2008

Dine in the Dark was a small social enterprise set up by the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) to provide a means of earning a livelihood for some of their more abled beneficiaries with a social objective - to promote awareness for their cause.

Customers eat their lunch in complet darkness - you would not even see your fingers in front of you - served and guided by visually handicapped servers. You are alerted of their presence and course servings through the bells on their ankles and their verbal instructions to you.

It can be a scary experience as 20 volunteers from Salesforce.com Singapore tried their hand (pun intended) when they had lunch with the SAVH that day. It took a while for everyone to get seated and used to the darkness and there were much laughter and giggling as people try to figure out who is their lunch partners and the food they are served it. Attempts to eat with cutlery are successful for those who are adept with their hands and senses but the rest resorted to using hands in order to get a better feel on what they are eating. Lunch lasted only an hour but it felt much longer than that.

SAVH also gave a tour of their premises and briefing of their programmes to the volunteers. The biggest takeaway for most of us is we appreciate our sight even more as we leave the dark room and realised that the experience also taught us trust as we had to rely on our lunch companions when food and drinks is passed around the table completely by touch or verbal instructions.

Global Earth Week 16-20 June in the Japan office!

Rendo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:06:33 -0400

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環境問題について知り、小さなことから取り組んでいくことの大切さを学んだ1週間でした！ The first Environmental Awareness Campaign in the Japan office to think about what they can do for the environment, to learn about the issues, and to take actions to make our earth a better place!

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June 20, 2008 Tokyo/Osaka, Japan

セールスフォース・ドットコムの東京・大阪オフィスでは6月16日～20日までの一週間、Earth Week (環境週間)を実施しました。“Be an Everyday Hero - Live More, Consume Less”の標語の下、社員が環境のためにできることを考え、学び、実行する一週間となるように、環境に関する映画上映会や「私のチャレンジ宣言」(チームマイナス6%ホームページ参照)、清掃活動などを実施しました。今回のEarth Weekの内容は、2008年3月で日本の社員を対象に実施した環境意識調査の結果をもとに「学び」「成果の可視化」「意識変化から行動へ」を考慮した内容になるよう、14人の社員とファンデーションから成る社会貢献委員会で企画されました。

Salesforce.com's Japan office (Tokyo/Osaka) has just finished our first “Earth Week'', the Environmental Awareness Campaign from June 16-20. The purpose was for employees to think about what they can do for the environment, to learn about the issues, and to take actions to make our earth a better place. Movie screenings on global warming, declarations to reduce CO2 emissions, and clean-up activities took place during the week. These were planned by the Foundaiton Japan Committee, based on the results of an environmental awareness survey that was conducted in March 2008.

【私のチャレンジ宣言/Declaration to Reduce CO2 Emissions】

私のチャレンジ宣言は、チームマイナス6%が考案したもので、日常のちょっとした行動でどの程度CO2排出を削減できるかを数値化したものです。東京・大阪オフィスの社員一同が宣言したCO2削減量は1日約100kg、5日間で約500kg(スギ人工林約35本の年間CO2吸収量に相当)にのぼりました。成果が数値として目に見えることから、環境意識向上に役立ち、行動の変化へとつながりました。社内から多くの反響があり、CS-AEの今村和広は、「身近に出来ることは意外に多いことに気がついた。大切なのは続けることです！」とコメントしています。
私のチャレンジ宣言：http://www.team-6.jp/try-1kg/challenge/ (Japanese only)

Watashi no Challenge Sengen (Declaration to Ｒeduce CO2 Emission) is an interesting campaign and is advocated by The Ministry of the Environment. You can choose what actions to take to reduce CO2 emissions in your daily life on their website, and you can print out the total amount of CO2 you plan to save in just a minute! Everyone put their declarations on notice boards in the office. As a result, the total declared amount of CO2 to be saved by our 134 employees was 500kg in 5 days! This is equal to the amount of CO2 that 35 cedar trees absorb per year.
Kazuhiro Imamura, Account Executive, CS said “I realized there were a lot more things I could do for the environment in my daily life and the most important thing is to keep up theese eco-actions.” This campaign encouraged everyone to raise their awareness of green issues by quantifying the impact, as well as to take the first step to move forward for an eco-friendly sustainable earth!

【表参道クリーニング/Omotesando Clean-Up】

“きれいな街は人の心もきれいにする”をコンセプトに活動している非営利団体green bird 主催の表参道清掃活動に社員17名が参加しました。セールスフォース・ドットコムのパートナー企業である株式会社ウフルからも、小堀貴生さんが参加されました。小堀さんは、「表参道は美しい街並みというイメージがあったが、それはボランティアが清掃しているからなのだということを初めて知った。今後も是非参加したい。」とおっしゃっていました。今後も、ビジネスの場だけでなくボランティア活動においてもパートナー企業の皆様とお付き合いしていきたいと思います。
green bird:　http://www.greenbird.jp/　（Japanese only）

Green birdのblogにも、社員が活躍している様子が紹介されています！

April, 18　http://greenbird.jp/diary/index.php?ID=1810
April, 19　http://greenbird.jp/diary/index.php?ID=1813

17 employees participated in activities to clean up the streets in Omotesando, Tokyo. This is one of our favorite volunteer activities organized by a nonprofit called ’’green bird’’. This time we jointly worked with one of Salesforce.com’s business partners, Uhuru, Inc.. Mr Takao Kobori from Uhuru said, “I had an image that Omotesando was always clean and beautiful but I realized that this was because of the constant efforts by green bird volunteers.” It’s our pleasure to have a good relationship with our business partners not only in business but also in volunteering!

【映画上映/Movie Screenings】

昼休みおよび就業時間後に、環境に関する映画を上映しました。初の試みでしたが、「とてもわかりやすかった」「もっとたくさんの社員に見て欲しい」「またこのような機会が欲しい」と好評を博しました。いま何が問題で、どういうアクションを起こす必要があるのかとことの理解につながるため、今後も継続して行っていく予定です。

Movie screenings about global warming took place during lunchtime and after working hours in the office. This was afirst in the Tokyo office and we had a lot of positive feedback such as ’’It’s full of interesting contents and easy to understand,'' '’I want other employees to see these films,” “I want to see other ones,” It was a great opportunitiy for us to see what’s going on around the planet and what needs to be done to save our earth''.

Make a Wish Charity Marathon

Rendo — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:05:00 -0400

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メイク・ア・ウィッシュオブジャパン（MAWJ）のチャリティーマラソンに参加しました！ SFDC employees run to create hope and happiness for children with life-threatening illnesses in Tokyo, Japan.

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April 19, 2008 Tokyo, Japan

4月19日にメイク・ア・ウィッシュ　オブ　ジャパン（ＭＡＷＪ）のチャリティーマラソンに参加しました！

メイク・ア・ウィッシュはアメリカを中心に世界28カ国に支部を持つ国際的な非営利組織です。対象とするのは難病のために日々様々な困難に立ち向かっている子どもたちで、メイク・ア・ウィッシュはこうした子どもたちの「サンタと遊びたい」「遊園地に行きたい」などの夢を実現を手助けし、そのすばらしい経験が厳しい環境を生きる子どもたちにとって明日への生きる糧となるよう活動しています。

今年は昨年よりも多い社員・その家族を含め29人が参加しました。当日は天候が心配されましたが、朝早くに雨があがり、皇居の周辺5km/10kmを気持ちよく走ることができました。SRディレクター小関貴志は1 歳の愛娘・愛茉ちゃんと一緒に参加しました。「普段は子供と二人だけの時間というのがあまりとれないので、とても楽しい時間をすごしました。自分が楽しめて、少しでも難病の方々のためになれたのであれば嬉しいです。色々な企業の方々も参加されており、皆さんの社会貢献に対する意識の高さというのも刺激になりました。」もちろん愛茉ちゃんも大好きなパパとの時間を楽しんでいました！

マラソン後、参加者は完走を祝して親睦会を開き、仕事とは違った場面での交流を楽しみました。自分の好きな活動によって社会貢献ができ、また、参加者同士の絆を深めることができた一日でした。

On 19 April, the Charity Marathon was held by Make a Wish of Japan (MAWJ).

Make a Wish is an international nonprofit organization which operates in over 27 countries to create hope and happiness for children with life-threatening illnesses. It assists these children's dreams to come true so that they will have hope even though they are in difficult situations.

This was the second time for us to participate in the Charity Marathon and 29 employees and their families enjoyed running around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

Takashi Ozeki, Director, SR/ Enterprise Business Representative joined the team with his 1-year-old daughter Ema. He said "I don't have enough time to spend with my daughter during weekdays so it was a precious opportunity. I would be happy if my participation could lend support for the children. It's stimulating to see so many charity-minded companies and their employees support this event." Of course, Ema was so happy to run with her loving father!

After the event, participants went out for lunch as a reward for everyone's great run. It was also a great oppoortunity for all to get to know each other.

Make a Wish of Japan:http://www.mawj.org/ (Japanese only)

$80,000 in Relief Funds to Give2Asia

Conches — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:38:56 -0400

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Thank you so much for your contribution to the Salesforce.com Foundation matching fund to assist with the recent disasters in Myanmar and China.

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With an outpouring of support from salesforce.com employees, friends and partners worldwide, the Foundation has donated over $80,000 to assist with the rebuilding efforts in Myanmar and China.

We wanted to let you know that we have selected our partner organization for the funds. We will be sending your donation along with our match, to Give2Asia disaster relief funds, who are working very closely with organizations on the ground to distribute aid and assist with rebuilding efforts.

Two examples of the organizations supported through Give2Asia’s disaster relief fund are the Foundation for the People of Burma who has been working with monasteries throughMyanmar for over 30 years and are currently very active in providing shelter and food for the millions of refugees in the region; and the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation who are currently working to relocate and re-employ thousands affected by the earthquake.

These are just a few of the organizations that Give 2 Asia is teaming up with in the affected areas. For more information please visit their site directly.

For those of you who donated to the Salesforce.com Foundation's matching fund for the disaster relief in Myanmar and China, we thank you. Your donation certainly will help make a difference in these devastated regions. This program is now closed.

Sincerely,

Suzanne DiBianca
Executive Director
Salesforce.com Foundation

A Hot Day Out for Charity

Joyce — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:09:40 -0400

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Volunteers take part in Assisi Hospice Fun Charity in Singpaore and raise close to S$2,000 from their booths takings.

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Singapore - 18 May 2008

It was a sizzling 35 degrees in the hot afternoon sun; you can almost fry an egg on the tarmac in front of us. A group of salesforce employees are valiantly putting on their best smiles and making eyes at the people milling around. We are not at a city tour or success tour; we are at the Assisi Hospice Fun Charity. With a gong in hand and leaflets in our hands, we are trying to get customers to spend their charity tickets in our booths.

Salesforce.com Singapore has taken up two booths - mini golf game and the dunking machine to help Assisi Hospice in their bi-annual fundraising carnival. They hope to raise S$500,000 from this event to supplement the running of the day care centre and palliative care to their patients. This is a special event for salesforce because despite of the scale of our involvement - 24 volunteers involved altogether and large amount preparation time -we did it almost cost free and everything by ourselves. The salesforce booth banner was recycled from Marketing, prizes were ‘sponsored' by the office (sweets and biscuits) with some provided by Assisi Hospice and spare souvenirs from Marketing; posters were drawn and painted by Jacqueline Cheng, our in-house nominated artist and everyone helped in the packing of prizes and logistics for the event.

This event was led by Ivy Lai, Senior Finance Manager for the Mini Golf booth and Sher Vin Chua, EBR Representative for the Dunking booth. Ivy even volunteered her children for the event and her son was one of the main dunkees throughout the day. A few of the employees also brought their children to help out at the booth and others invited family and friends to give us support. So all in all, it was a family day out cum volunteer activity for a few of us.

In order to increase sales, we also had local celebrities taking part in dunking booth to attract the crowd and raise more money. We even had our own salesforce ‘celebrity' - Duncan Pereira (EBR Representative) who gamely sat on the dunk plank for many times without nary a complaint only with a wide smile on his face. We raised a total of S$1,930.50 for 8 hours of hard work and many funny memories.

A big thank you to everyone who participated - the G&A team and the SR team - and all who supported us by buying tickets and inviting friends and family and coming to the carnival to cheer us on. Thank you!

Volunteers looking fresh and ready to go!

BBQ On the Streets

Joyce — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:51:06 -0400

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The ANZ Services team goes a-volunteering at King's Cross.

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Sydney, 18 March 2008

On Tuesday, March 18th, the ANZ Services team took the afternoon to help out at the Wayside Chapel. The Wayside Chapel provides non-judgmental support for all people in their community; young people, the homeless, the elderly, victims of domestic violence, abuse and substance addictions and people with mental health issues. They are also a recipient of the Foundation's 1% Product Donation programme which they are planning to use it to manage their contact database and fundraising campaigns.

The Wayside Chapel is located in the heart of Kings Cross and we arrived right on lunchtime to get straight to work setting up, preparing and serving a BBQ lunch to the Wayside community. It was a beautiful day for a BBQ and it was a great experience for us all to work together and get to interact with this community and learn a little more about what they face each day.

After the BBQ, we cleaned up and spent some time learning a little bit more about Wayside and then took an hour long tour around the Kings Cross area to show us some of the facilities and shelters available for those in need. It was an eye opening day for us all and we were glad to have given our time to give something back to those less fortunate.

If you would like to learn more about The Wayside Chapel please visit http://www.thewaysidechapel.com.

- Written by Megan Turner, Customer Sucess Manager, ANZ

Foundation After Note: In line with our integrated philanthropy model, the Foundation is actively planning future opportunities where employees can continue to take part in the BBQ serving and provide assistance towards Wayside Chapel's Thrift shop as well as volunteer to provide ad-hoc consultation sessions on their use of salesforce technology. Keep your eyes peeled on the updates coming your way soon!

It’s A Christmas Party with A Difference!

Joyce — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:46:36 -0500

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Attendees to the Salesforce.com Christmas party helped raise monies to benefit nonprfit customers.

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Singapore, 6 Dec 2007

On 6 December...for the first time in recorded history...it snowed in Singapore. To celebrate 1,000,000 paying subscribers and the holiday season, Salesforce.com Singapore hosted a special Networking Event at The Forbidden City, IndoChine.

The central theme of the event was a Winter Wonderland and as part of the celebrations, the company planted a Foundation Tree for attendees to give back to the community. Nearly $5,000 was raised by attendees purchasing decorations to decorate The Foundation Tree. The donations benefited 2 nonprofit customers - The Special Olympics Singapore and Food from the Heart.

Steve Russell's speech was delivered as a Breaking News Announcement (broadcasted from the venue). The event was interrupted by SNN (Salesforce News Network appeared on 10 screens in venue) anchor-woman Livian Soo who announced that it had started snowing in Singapore and handed over to onsite correspondent Steve Russell.

A true giver at heart, he took the opportunity to highlight the centerpiece - The Foundation Tree - and announced that the first $1,000 donation will have the opportunity to decorate the tree with a special Christmas star. Within minutes, two of our partners, InterAktive Technology and ITIS Associates came forward with their $1,000 pledges.

Thank you for making this party with a difference!

A Different Kind of Volunteering- Competitve Volunteering

Joyce — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:52:04 -0500

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Four teams of volunteers created a difference for four families and their homes over the holiday season.

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Singapore, December 2007/January 2008

It started out as a simple one-day project where volunteers were divided into four teams to help their assigned families make over their home so as to improve their living conditions. Each team was given a budget of S$500.00 to pay for the necessary materials required. The two unique features of this volunteer projects are - first, volunteers have to consult their beneficiary family to find out their needs and customize their volunteer work according to their interests and second, all four teams are pitted against each other to win a prize money of S$500.00 which will be donated to the winning team's beneficiary family in form of a food hamper and vouchers.

An independent panel of judges made up by the General Manager of Tanjong Pager Family Service Centre* (the nonprofit whom we partnered), Mr Wong Kwong Sing; Mr Gary Luton, Director Asia Services (who is not involved in the project) and Mr Jason Wee, Assistant Director of Corporate Giving, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, were selected to score the teams on their home makeover efforts. The judges' identities were not made known to the volunteers and the reports of their work were submitted anonymously to the judges in order to ensure a fair decision was made.

When the project was finally completed, we had some 33 Salesforce employees, with additional help from family and friends, clocked a whopping total of 316.5 hours or 39.5 days for this project. The project had burgeoned beyond the Foundation's expectations and took on a larger scale and impact as a result of employee's passion and determination to make a real difference to the families they are helping. Several volunteers appealed to their friends and families to donate or sponsor household items and furniture while others roped in contacts and business partners to purchase materials at discounted prices so that they could do more with the given budget. Despite the competitive nature of the project, teams shared information with each other and even pass down materials which could be re-used to the unfinished teams. Much of the work was done during lunch time where preparations was concerned and the actual home makeover on the weekends where the volunteers made repeated trips to the homes in order to make sure that the place is properly ‘renovated' before it is deemed completed.

A big thank you to all volunteers and especially the four volunteer leaders, namely Alyce Chow, Sarah Yeom, Sharon Sun and Fiona Salas who helped lead their teams in organizing and working with their assigned families on their home makeover needs.

And who won the prize money? The Happy House team made up by Sarah Yeom, Luke Lin, Stephanie Tang, Wan Zhen Liew, Lynette Tan, Byung Kyu Choi, Mickey Park supported by the other G&A employees in cash or in-kind donations. Congratulations!!

*The Tanjong Pagar Family Service Centre is a community-based nonprofit whose aim is to enhance family functioning through the provision of remedial, preventive and developmental services. They position themselves as a generalist first-stop centre which families can turn to for assistance in any matter relating to family life and ensure that their programmes and services meet the specific needs of the local community in the Tanjong Pagar district.

Go here to see the links of the before and after pictures of the Home MakeOver projects by the respective teams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15359131@N05/collections/

Team Happy House - BeforeAfter

Japan has just finished its Global Holliday Spirit 07 with more than 550hrs contribution. 冬のボランティアウィーク、グローバル・ホリデー・スピリットを実施しました。

Rendo — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:34:31 -0500

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Japan has just finished its Global HOliday Spirit with more than 550 hours volunteer contribution.

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12月の１日から25日までセールスフォース・ドットコム東京・大阪オフィスでは、Global　Holiday Spirit 07と題した、年末恒例のボランティアウィークを実施しました。社員の合計ボランティア時間は、553時間+。クリスマスシーズンということもあり、クリスマスに関する活動も多く、積極的に社内外で様々な活動に参加した社員からは、楽しみや充実感だけでなく、今後の活動にもつながる多くのフィードバックを得られることができました。
Salesforce.com Japan office (Tokyo/Osaka) has just finished the annual Global Holiday Spirit (GHS). In this year’s GHS07 employees contributed to a total of 553 (and counting) hours of volunteering, to the social and the global community. Having held in the Christmas Season this year’s activities included many Christmas events. The employees not only enjoyed the activities but also gave the foundation useful feedbacks and ideas for our next year’s Global Holiday Spirit.

Xmas【ギビングツリー　プレゼント選び・プレゼント配達 / Giving Tree】 　　　　
　　　　
12月25日クリスマス、サンタになったFS忽那敏章と、FS山崎徳寛の2人があゆみ学園へ社員から預かったプレゼントを届けに行きました。子供たちは、サンタさんに駆け寄って、握手を求めて、大興奮の様子。滑り台から勢いよく降りてきたサンタさんから貰ったプレゼントを早速開けて大喜びでした。ほとんどの生徒が暮らす中心の施設を含め、計4ヶ所のグループホームを回り届けたプレゼントは、あゆみ学園の生徒67人ひとりひとりから届いた手紙を、67人の社員が受け取り、手紙に書かれたプレゼントを選び準備したもの。この日サンタとして訪れた2人だけでなく、プレゼントを子供たちの喜ぶ顔を思い浮かべながら選び、クリスマスカードを添え贈った全員の気持ちが伝わっていたことと思います。帰り際、子供たちは「また来てね」と既に来年のクリスマスが待ち遠しい様子で、忽那も、「帰る時も全員しっかりとお礼を言い集団生活においても驚くほど規律正しい環境で生活をしていることを実感させられました。また来てね！と言われると大変嬉しいものです。」とのことでした。
On this year’s Christmas day, two employees on behalf of Tokyo office members, dressed up as Santa Clause to give presents to the children at Ayumi Gakuen. 67 employees bought their own gifts for all 67children of Ayumi Gakuen from the Christmas wish list sent from each student. As the Santas came sliding down the emergency slide in the building, the children came running to the two Santas desperate to shake hands and talk with them. However it was not only the Santas that visited 4 homes all together but also all employees that made the children smile. The children asked the Santas to “come back next year” as they left, already missing them. It would be great if you could time to time think of the presents you gave, and the children using them and look forward to the next years giving tree.

あゆみ学園　http://www17.ocn.ne.jp/~ayumi-gk/ (Japanese only)

picture book【絵本ボランティア/ Picture Book Volunteers】　　　　　
　　　　
シャンティ国際ボランティア会という非営利団体は、子どもの図書がほとんど出版されていない途上国へ絵本を送る運動を行っています。日本で出版されている絵本に訳文を印刷したシールを貼って、カンボジア、ラオス、ミャンマー難民キャンプ、アフガニスタンに送るというものです。この活動に賛同し、セールスフォース・ドットコムの東京と大阪のオフィスでは毎年絵本のシール貼り活動に協力しています。社内では毎日17：00～18：00に活動し、その他にも自宅に持ち帰って活動を行う社員もおり、合計で250冊の絵本を東京と大阪オフィスで完成させました。社員は忙しくてもボランティアに関わることができるということで、自分にできることとして、一冊一冊本を完成させていました。
One of the most popular activity was the dispatching of 'Picture Books' coordinated by Shanti Volunteer Association. They send books to developing countries (Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, and Myanmar Refugee Camp,) where picture books are hardly published. Employees are responsible for attaching the translations to the correct pages of the book. Throughout the period employees completed 250 books and understood that there is something that they can do to help others even at their busiest business season.

シャンティ　http://www.sva.or.jp/ (Japanese)
Shanti http://sva.or.jp/english/ (English)

used books　【古本の回収 / Used Books donation】　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　
自宅やオフィスに眠っている本、CD、DVDをブックオフコーポレーション株式会社に送ると、その買取額がJENのアフガニスタンとパキスタンでの教育支援事業「スクールサポートプログラム」に役立てられるという活動に参加しました。社員からは合計で、131冊の本と、3枚のCDが寄付されました。
Employees participated in a recycling program jointly organized by a humanitarian nonprofit JEN and used bookshop Bookoff Corp.. By sending 131books and 3 CDs to Bookoff, the total sales are to be donated to an educational program in Afghanistan and Pakistan by JEN.

JEN http://www.jen-npo.org/ (Japanese)
JEN http://www.jen-npo.org/en/index.html (English)

【クリスマスツリーデコレーションWS / Christmas tree decoration workshop】　　

12月2日（日）、セールスフォース東京オフィス社内にて、NGO　CANVAS 主催の子ども向けクリスマスツリーデコレーションのワークショップを開催しました。社内から参加した、アライアンス事業本部田崎純一郎とカスタマーサクセスマネジメント部の仲澤輝宏も、家族と共にデコレーションを楽しんでいました。50人の子どもたちが手作りオーナメントを作成し、それぞれ別のテーマでデコレーションされたクリスマスツリー3本のうちの１本をセールスフォース用としていただきました。子供たちのメッセージで彩られたツリーがオフィスの玄関に飾られています。子供たちは、デコレーションの講師として参加された、アレン・マイナーさんの「クリスマスは、もらうばかりじゃなくて、誰かに何かをあげる日」という言葉をしっかりと覚えて帰っていった様子でした。
On 2nd December NGO CANVAS organized a charity Christmas workshop for children. It was held at Salesforce.com Tokyo office inviting more than 50 children altogether. Each tree had its own theme and the children decorated each tree with their hand-made ornaments. Out of the three trees decorated Salesforce.com was donated the “message tree” a tree decorated with children’s own Christmas cards. The children who participated in the event returned to their homes learning that “Christmas is a time not only for being given, but also a time for giving”.

Canvas http://www.canvas.ws/ (Japanese)
Canvas http://www.canvas.ws/en/ (English)

omotesando【表参道クリーニング/ Omotesando Cleaning】　　　

期間中毎週月曜日、きれいな街は、人の心もきれいにする」をコンセプトに誕生したgreen bird 主催の街中クリーニングプロジェクトの表参道チームに参加しました。普段何気なく歩いている道も、少し目を凝らせば、様々なところにゴミが落ちている。参加後、こうした活動は今会社がある恵比寿でも行って行きたいという意見もがあり、今後もぜひ地域を支援できる活動として継続していきたいと思います。また、マーケティングの社員がチームとして参加した12月3日の活動では、green bird のホームページにて、日記にその活動とセールスフォースの活動を掲載していただきました。
Every Monday during the period employees participated in a Green Bird's -an NGO acting to clean the streets of Japan- cleaning activity. The employees picked up trashes on streets which even they could have walked passed without noticing in their daily lives. Many employees commented that they would like to continue these activities in the same area as the office. Our marketing team and Salesforce.com was introduced on the Green Birds homepage after their participation on December 3rd.

green bird　http://www.greenbird.jp/　（Japanese　Only）
日記　http://www.greenbird.jp/diary/index.php?ID=1459

yoyogi park【代々木公園の緑化活動Yoyogi park gardening】 　

代々木公園『花の小径』を活動エリアとしている代々木ガーデニングクラブの活動にて、種まき、花壇のリニューアル、プレートの再設置など、普段訪れる公園の景観維持に必要な緑化活動を行いました。アライアンス事業本部の密田容子は「結構重労働だったが、作業は達成感があった」、とのこと。また地元のコミュニティに接することができ、新しく出会う人々との会話を楽しめるなどとの意見がありました。
Together with Yoyogi gardening club, every day with a 4 on the end (4th and 14th) employees participated to maintain its views and the environment helping out with planting, fixing, making gardens. The work itself can be hard sometimes, but therefore it is rewarding. Also this activity was an occasion to speak with many local citizens.

代々木公園ガーデニングクラブ　http://www.hananokomichi.com/ (Japanese only)

Kids Earth Fund

【子供地球基金 / Kids Earth Fund】　　　　　　

子供地球基金では、世界中の紛争地や災害地等で、行ったアートワークショップにて子どもたちが描いた絵を分類し、整理を行います。また、クリスマスにはワークショップで訪れた、またクリスマス会などを予定されている病院や施設などの子どもたちへ、クリスマスプレゼントを届けています。
Kids Earth Fund organizes pictures drawn by children around the world, some from countries under war and conflict, at their work shops. Also in this season the NGO visits children at hospitals where that have participated in their workshops, and to those hospitals where there are planning a Christmas party and hands gifts to the children. The employees participated in both organizing the pictures and wrapping the Christmas presents to be handed for children in hospitals.

子供地球基金　http://www.kidsearthfund.org/ (Japanese)
KIDS EARTH FUND http://www.kidsearthfund.org/english/index.html (English)

Ginger Bread House【ジンジャーブレッドハウス制作 / Ginger Bread House work shop】　

Canvas　主催のクリスマスイベントの2つ目として、ジンジャーブレッドハウス制作のWSに社員がボランティアとして参加しました。当日は、オフィスという環境に実物のオーブンを持ち込み、その場でクッキーを焼き子供たちはお菓子で家を作りました。ボランティアとしてコンサルの小松正治、CSの名合博司、人事部の清田美幸、FSの荒谷英智は、子供たちの手伝いをしながら、普段なかなか経験することのできない、イベントに本人達もとても楽しんでいました。小松は「子供たちが個性豊かな、家を作っていてとても楽しそうだった」とコメントしていました。
For the second Canvas organized work shop, employees help organize a ginger bread house work shop. Surprisingly though the event was held inside an office an oven was brought to bake ginger bread and cookies. The employees helped children make sweet houses, but surely they themselves were enjoying their first ever experience to make a ginger bread house.

Snow Dome【スノードーム制作WS / Snow dome Workshop】　

Canvas 主催のクリスマスワークショップの締めくくりとして、スノードーム制作のWSに社員がボランティアとして参加しました。子供たちは、スノードームの中に入れる、シートをそれぞれ作成し、自分オリジナルのスノードームを作りました。シートを作るのには、細かい作業も必要とされたので、アライアンス事業本部田崎純一郎と、マーケティング部渡辺順子は子供たちの工作の手伝いをしながらも、初めて経験するスノードームの制作をとても楽しんでいました。
For the final Canvas organized Christmas workshop Employee participated in helping children make, their own snow domes. The children drew and collaged making a sheet of paper that will go in between the snow dome to create its background. The employees supported children when the work shop required some intricate processes for children

【スペシャルオリンピックス　ボーリング / Special Olympics Bowling】　　　

SO（スペシャルオリンピックス）の各地区では、アスリートを中心にその家族とボランティアとが一体となって、親睦を深めるとともに、SOについて広く認知・理解促進を図ることを目的に様々なスポーツイベントを実施しています。その一環の事業として、ボランティワウィークの期間中は、ボーリング競技に社員が参加し参加者のアスリートや、参加者の支援を行いました。参加したアライアンス事業本部田崎純一郎は、アスリートが叩き出す高得点に、驚いていた様子でした。
Special Olympics organize various sporting events to connect athletes and their families with the local citizens to advocate the activities of Special Olympics. One of the activities that Special Olympics does is to organize sports competitions for athletes and locals. Salesforce.com employee participated as a volunteer in a bowling competition to help athletes and local participants.

スペシャルオリンピックス　http://www.son.or.jp/　(Japanese)
Special Olympics http://www.specialolympics.org/ (English)

【タオル・シーツ　電子機器リサイクル / Towels Sheets and Used electronics recycle】

人身売買対策の強化のためにアドボカシーや啓発を行っているポラリスを支援するため、社内で、電子機器や、タオル・シーツのリサイクルを実施しました。社員からは、電話やタオル等が寄せられました。
To support Polaris Project, a multicultural grassroots organization combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery the employees donated used electronics, and new towels from the office.

ポラリスプロジェクト　http://www.polarisproject.jp/ (Japanese)
Polaris Project http://www.polarisproject.jp/index_jp_en.htm (English)

【NECコミュニティコンサートボランティア / NEC Community Concert Volunteer】　　

NECが、全世界のNECグループ会社・社員で実施する社会貢献運動"NEC Make-a-Difference Drive"の一環として開催したチャリティコンサートにFSの水村眞理、カスタムエデュケーション部の細谷均、マーケティング部川路拓也が当日の運営ボランティアとして参加しました。
As a part of a global social commitment project organized by NEC employees helped run a charity concert “NEC make a difference drive” that invited locals for free.

NECチャリティコンサートhttp://www.nec.co.jp/community/ja/mecenat/concert/charity.html(Japanese only)

【非営利ユーザーのカスタマイズ支援 / Customizing application for Non Profit User】　

リビング・ドリームス / Living Dreams
児童養護施設と民間支援企業の橋渡しをし、大勢の恵まれない子ども達の日々の生活を豊かにしたり、夢を実現したりする手伝いをすることを目標に活動している、リビング・ドリームスのアプリケーションのカスタマイズにCSの岡崎貴紀と西田幸弘が協力しました。
Living dreams works as a bridge between children’s homes and private firms to empower children. Employees helped customize the application to match their usage.

リビング　ドリームス　http://www.livingdreams.jp/ (Japanese Only)

一橋大学神岡ゼミ / Hitotsubashi University
一橋大学、神岡ゼミの生徒によるカスタマイズ。ゼミ使用のアプリケーションのカスタマイズ作業に製品統括本部長の内田仁史が協力しました。
Employees helped students from Hitotsubashi University customize application for in school education and seminar organization usage.

神岡ゼミ　http://kamilabo.net/index.html (Japanese only)

【Web サポート / Web　support】

環境問題に取り組んでいる、FoEのウェブページの、データ更新とページ構成とレイアウトの変更をマーケティング部の田辺綾子がボランティアとして協力しました。
To help International environmental NGO FoE, our employee help refresh their web page and the layouts of the page.

FoE http://www.foejapan.org/ (Japanese)
FoE http://www.foejapan.org/en/ (English)

【あゆみ学園定期訪問】

毎月行っているあゆみ学園の定期訪問に,今月はコンサルの堀慶史と、讃岐が参加しました。
For the monthly activity with the Ayumi Gakuen this month two consultants enjoyed meeting with children and playing together.