# Salesforce.com Foundation announces 2008 global grant recipients

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/28/salesforcecom-foundation-announces-2008-global-grant-recipients/
- Published: 2008-07-28T11:46:30+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Salesforce.com Foundation has announced 15 grants to charities and nonprofits
in 15 countries, including one in the UK. Recipients were chosen from nearly 200
applicants and scored by advisory groups of salesforce.com employees around the 
globe.**

The grants are part of software-as-a-service company salesforce.com’s “[1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model](http://www.sharethemodel.org)”
where 1% of employee time, 1% of the company’s equity, and 1% of the company’s product
are donated to nonprofits.

The UK recipient was [Children in Crisis](http://www.childrenincrisis.org/uk)‘ d:
side Programme which uses Salesforce to improve and maximise the reach of its d:
side (drugs: support, information, drug education) [curriculum resource programme](https://blog.curriculosolutions.com/how-to-bring-your-curriculum-into-the-digital-age)
to 44,000 school children across the UK.

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Isabel Kelly, director for Europe, Middle East, Africa, of the Salesforce.com Foundation
said: “It is extremely gratifying to see how Salesforce technology can bring success
to nonprofits around the world, whether it’s used to improve communication, to bring
together local nonprofits to better serve constituents, or to manage microfinance
programs across the developing world.”

The [Salesforce.com Foundation](http://www.salesforcefoundation.org) provides two
types of grants as part of its 1/1/1 Model. The Turn It Up grant is designed to 
support current salesforce.com nonprofit customers with innovative and replicable
project proposals that want to “Turn Up” their use of Salesforce to provide deeper
and measurable benefit within their organisation as well as the greater nonprofit
sector.

The Technology for Youth Development grant is designed for youth-focused organisations
to integrate technology into their organisation in order to further their mission
and enhance the lives of the young people they work with.
 

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