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We celebrated salesforce.com’s 15th birthday by saying THANK YOU with a global day of giving and celebration on March 7. From day one, giving back has been at the heart of salesforce.com’s culture through our 1-1-1 model of integrated philanthropy. On our 15th birthday, salesforce.com employees participated in volunteering events in 30 countries around the world.
In San Francisco—where salesforce.com got its start and is now the largest technology employer—thousands of employees, nonprofit partners and members of the local community gathered in iconic Justin Herman Plaza to collect food for the San Francisco Food Bank, package meals for Stop Hunger Now and celebrate with a performance by Grammy-nominated artist Janelle Monae.
In addition, the Salesforce.com Foundation and Tipping Point Community, the Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization, launched SF Gives—a $10 million fund created by a coalition of business and tech industry leaders to fight poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Salesforce.com’s goal was to package 15,000 meals and collect 15,000 pounds of food at the event. Thanks to employees and members of the San Francisco community, we blew those targets out of the water!
Together, we collected more than 31,000 pounds of food for the SF Food Bank—enough to provide more than 26,000 meals for the hungry. This was the SF Food Bank’s largest corporate volunteering day in history.
Salesforce.com also hosted Stop Hunger Now’s largest volunteer event in North America, packaging 22,680 meals, which will be sent to the Philippines to aid in typhoon recovery efforts.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee came out to participate, packaging meals and joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage to declare March 7 Global 1-1-1 Day in San Francisco with an official proclamation.
“Salesforce.com and its generous employees understand that at the heart of our City’s success is how we come together as a community to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed,” said Mayor Lee. “Through their 1-1-1 model of leveraging people, technology and resources they have not only improved the lives of our City’s residents, but they have set a gold standard for philanthropy in our City.”
Also on March 7, the Salesforce.com Foundation partnered with Tipping Point Community, the Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization since 2005, to launch of SF Gives, a $10 million fund created to fight poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. SF Gives aims to build a coalition of 20 companies willing to commit at least $500,000 each and raise $10 million. Box, Dropbox, Google, IfOnly, Jawbone, LinkedIn, POPSUGAR, Inc. and Zynga have joined salesforce.com as founding members, committing more than $5 million.
Salesforce.com employees around the world celebrated our 15th birthday by volunteering with nonprofit organizations in their local communities. In Hyderabad, employees helped rejuvenate local schools with City of Hope while employees in Dublin built houses with Habitat for Humanity.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in Global 1-1-1 Day in San Francisco and around the world!
You can celebrate with salesforce.com and give back by visiting salesforce.com/salesforce15.
