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how has salesforce com integrated philanthropy into its operations

by Wellington Shanahan Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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When Salesforce was founded in 1999, the company pioneered the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, donating one percent of its equity, product and employee time to communities around the world.

We call our integrated philanthropic approach the 1-1-1 model. Since our founding, we have given more than $240 million in grants, 3.5 million hours of community service, and provided product donations for more than 39,000 nonprofits and educational institutions.

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What is Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud?

Salesforce.org Philanthropy Cloud engages employees and scales corporate social responsibility. Choose the option that best describes your organization. Engage employees and elevate your culture. Expand your donor and volunteer network.

Why did Salesforce buy Salesforce cloud services?

Why Salesforce bought them: Salesforce has recognized the need for industry-specific Clouds for many years. Salesforce had built Financial Services Cloud, Health Cloud on their core platform, and organized the bulk of their consulting partners into industry niches.

What is Salesforce’s acquisition strategy?

Since Salesforce was founded in 1999, constant innovation, mixed with predictive powers, has driven dominance in the product categories Salesforce operates within. A core part of Salesforce’s mission has been its acquisitions strategy – a major driver of their impressive, world-renowned growth.

Why Salesforce bought VLocity?

One-line Pitch: “Vlocity is built natively on the Salesforce Platform and it is a leading provider of industry-specific solutions” Why Salesforce bought them: Salesforce has recognized the need for industry-specific Clouds for many years.

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What is Salesforce philanthropy?

Enabling employees to support their communities and causes they care about is essential to keeping them engaged as they adjust to a next normal. Salesforce.org Philanthropy Cloud engages employees and scales corporate social responsibility. Choose the option that best describes your organization.

Does Salesforce donate to nonprofits?

The Power of Us gives eligible nonprofits and educational institutions access to 10 donated subscriptions and deep discounts on additional subscriptions, products, and/or services from Salesforce.

What has Salesforce done for the community?

The Salesforce Foundation helps young people reach their full potential by supporting Education, Workforce Development, and Child Welfare and Thriving Communities programs.

How can Salesforce help nonprofits?

By providing robust data-tracking and reporting capabilities, a CRM solution like Salesforce can help nonprofits streamline their internal management, analyze donor engagement and deepen their connections to supporters.

How do charities use Salesforce?

The Power of Us program gives eligible nonprofit organisations access to Salesforce products and resources to help expand their collective impact. The program includes 10 donated Salesforce subscriptions and deep discounts on additional subscriptions, products and services from Salesforce.

How much does Salesforce donate to charity?

Since our founding, we have given more than $240 million in grants, 3.5 million hours of community service, and provided product donations for more than 39,000 nonprofits and educational institutions.

How many nonprofits use Salesforce?

40,000 nonprofit organizationsThrough the Power of Us product discount and donation program, more than 40,000 nonprofit organizations, foundations, and higher education institutions are using Salesforce.

Does Salesforce give back to the community?

During Dreamforce to You 2020, Salesforce will donate a total of $5 million to address the crises our communities are facing. COVID-19 has hit small businesses—the heart of our communities—especially hard. Earlier this summer, Salesforce distributed $3 million in grants to 300 U.S. small businesses.

Who does Salesforce donate to?

The Salesforce Foundation helps young people reach their full potential by supporting Education, Workforce Development, and Child Welfare and Thriving Communities programs.

How can Salesforce help with fundraising?

Fundraising. Create donor-centric experiences.Program Management. Amplify program impact.Marketing & Engagement. Find & engage lifelong supporters.Grantmaking. Simplify and accelerate grantmaking.Operations. Power teams with data clarity.

What is Salesforce for non profit?

Salesforce.org provides powerful CRM technology for a global community of nonprofits and educational institutions to help them operate effectively, raise funds, and build more meaningful relationships with those they serve.

What is Salesforce nonprofit Success Pack?

The Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) is an app that sits on top of Salesforce Enterprise Edition. NPSP is preconfigured for nonprofits as an-easy-to-use fundraising and constituent management application, designed to make the daily life of nonprofits a little easier.

Salesforce founded the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy. Can you describe what that is?

Imagine if every single person in every single organisation in the world gave just 1%. What a change and impact you could make. So when Marc Benioff decided to set up Salesforce.com, he knew that he wanted a completely different way of integrating philanthropy. He was determined to place philanthropy at the heart of the culture of the organisation.

How much of a priority is diversity in your day-to-day work at Salesforce.org?

It’s incredibly important. At Salesforce.org, we have three key mission areas we focus on for our strategic programming: education, workforce development, and technology and innovation. All three of those, even technology and innovation, have a very heavy focus on diversity, to the point where we actually call it out in our mission.

Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud for Companies

The Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud for Companies aims to engage and motivate employees into giving back to the community. Through the Philanthropy Cloud, employees across the world in various workplaces can contribute to more than 1.8 million non-profit organizations in the GuideStar database.

Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud for Nonprofits

This coin has a flip-side to it as well. The Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud can be used by nonprofits to monitor and oversee their donations. They can also organize and manage crowd funded campaigns and volunteering activities.

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What is the James Irvine Foundation?

With offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, The James Irvine Foundation (Irvine) is a grantmaking organization working for a California where all low-income workers have the power to advance economically. To reach this goal, Irvine funds initiatives supporting better careers and fair work for California’s low-wage workers, amongst other grantmaking. Since its inception in 1937, Irvine has given away over $1.87 billion to nonprofits working on behalf of Californians.

Is Irvine a funder?

Irvine is a proactive funder, with grant applications extended as invite-only. For the selected grantees, Irvine works to understand the organizational needs and how targeted grants can help them create the most impact, often through multi-year grants, with around 250 grants given out per year.

2. What does Salesforce do?

Bet Astro wishes they had a nickel for every time this question came up. The company has evolved and grown so much since it was founded in 1999 — and as its size and scope have increased, so has the complexity of this answer.

3. How much information does Salesforce process in 24 hours?

Salesforce brings companies and customers together. In other words, it powers trillions of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) interactions.

5. Where does Salesforce operate around the world?

Salesforce operates in 84 cities, with 110 offices around the world. There are eight Salesforce Towers currently (in Atlanta, Dublin, Indianapolis, London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo) with another two in development (Salesforce Tower Sydney and Salesforce Tower Chicago).

6. How tall is the Salesforce tower in San Francisco?

1,070 feet. Opened in 2018, the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco is 61 stories and 1.4 million square feet of office space.

7. How diverse is Salesforce?

Last year, Salesforce set a goal to have 50% of its U.S. employees from underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans)by 2023.

8. How much has Salesforce spent to ensure equality in employee salaries?

Salesforce has spent $16 million to date to ensure equal pay for equal work among its global workforce. In 2015, the company committed to investigating and addressing any gender pay gaps.

9. How is Salesforce a sustainable company?

In 2021, Salesforce achieved net zero across its full value chain and reached 100% renewable energy. This means Salesforce has purchased enough renewable energy to match all electricity it uses globally.

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