“Setbacks are as valuable as successes–learn from the misstep, optimize the process, and nail it the next time!” wrote one attendee. This sound career advice is just one of the dozens of inspiring messages of its kind.

During the Salesforce World Tour in New York, attendees offered career advice to Year Up students based on their own experience. Year Up is a nonprofit organization that has partnered with Salesforce.org for many years. Year Up provides low-income young adults, ages 18 - 24, with a combination of technical and professional skills, as well as corporate internships and wraparound support.

Salesforce.org supports nonprofit organizations that are helping to build a more diverse, equitable, and skilled workforce. Through technology, community engagement, and philanthropy, Salesforce.org partners with organizations focused on education and workforce development. Salesforce generously helps to support and promote the work of Salesforce.org by incorporating Salesforce.org initiatives in major Salesforce events-- and the recent Salesforce World Tour in New York  was no exception! Hundreds of World Tour Customer Trailblazers shared professional advice with young adults who are aspiring to enter the professional world.

Some attendees also shared their most significant professional challenge and how they overcame it. Attendees were eager to share advice, and some recognized that they were "paying it forward" based on advice they received when they were starting their own careers.

Learn more about this Salesforce World Tour New York activity by watching an interview with Year Up’s Jeanne and Candacy below!

Salesforce.org has partnered with Year Up in a variety of ways-- hosting more than 230 interns across various Salesforce office locations, engaging employees in thousands of hours of volunteer time to support Year Up students, and supporting the organization with philanthropic dollars to help expand the number of students served.

Many Year Up students come from neighborhoods and families where they have few professional role models and a limited professional network. One of the ways Year Up supports its students is by helping them build social capital-- connections, professional relationships, etc.-- so they can learn about various jobs and sectors, meet professionals, gain exposure to a professional environment, etc. 

The activity at the World Tour will help reinforce what Year Up students are learning in the program by offering them meaningful and personal advice from successful professionals. The note cards with advice will be distributed to Year Up students as part of a milestone event or activity during the Year Up program cycle.

Want to get involved with Year Up? Head over to the website for more information. If you are interested in hosting a Year Up intern on your team, please contact Nikki Tosiello (ntosiello@salesforce.com).

Join Salesforce and participate in many giving back opportunities at upcoming Salesforce World Tours–find out where and when: salesforce.com/events.

Learn more about the full Salesforce World Tour in NYC here: http://sforce.co/2igJdXB.