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1.24.2006 ET
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Salesforce Foundation Announces New College Scholarship Program
Six exceptional high school seniors chosen today as the first recipients of the BizAcademy College Scholarship Program
(CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Salesforce foundation, the global leader in
integrating philanthropy and business, announced today the winners of
salesforce foundation BizAcademy college scholarships. The inaugural
college scholarship program is for graduates of BizAcademy, a week-long
program teaching entrepreneurship and providing internships to over 20
underserved San Francisco high school students. Winners were selected
based on academic performance, community stewardship, leadership skills,
family college history and financial need.
Six exceptional students were chosen by salesforce foundation to receive
college scholarships: - Alice Li and William Zhou won annual
scholarships of $5,000 each.
- Christina Lam, Justin Louie, Jennie Pang and Kristle Quan won annual
scholarships of $2,500 each.
"We're excited to award college
scholarships to these six outstanding students," said Suzanne DiBianca,
Executive Director of the salesforce foundation. "The primary goal of
BizAcademy is to provide young people with the tools they need to be
successful in business and in life, and these six students have the
leadership, aptitude, drive, and motivation to become tomorrow's leaders.
The Foundation is proud to have made a positive impact on their lives and
plans to replicate the success of BizAcademy in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and
New York this year."
Through its goal of donating 1% of salesforce.com profits to the community
annually, 1% of equity to its programs and 1% of employee working hours to
community service, the Foundation aims to create successful communities by
serving youth and non-profits through volunteerism and technology-based
programs. Launched in June 2005, BizAcademy is a partnership between the
Foundation, the San Francisco Unified School District, and SF-based
non-profit, BizWorld. BizAcademy teaches entrepreneurship to juniors in
high school from underserved schools during a week-long intensive training
program. Salesforce.com volunteers train students to design, manufacture,
market and sell a product of their choosing and run the various functions
of their "company" using a customized version of the salesforce.com
product. Upon graduation from BizAcademy, all of the students were placed
in paid summer internships, including six who were hired within various
departments at salesforce.com. The BizAcademy college scholarship awards
program was developed this year as a way to enable these exceptional
students to attend universities to continue their education and to
position them for future success.
About salesforce foundation
Salesforce foundation is the leader in integrating philanthropy and
business. Through its goal of donating 1% of salesforce.com profits to the
community annually, 1% of equity to its programs and 1% of employee working
hours to community service, the Foundation is building a new model for
corporations to better serve the communities in which they operate. The
Foundation also strives to better the lives of youth by providing relevant
access to technology for youth in underserved communities both domestically
and abroad. The Foundation works with other corporations, youth development
agencies, and NGOs to create a society in which children, regardless of
socio-economic background, ethnicity or learning level, have access to
technology and understand how to use it to enhance their lives. Since July
2000, the Foundation has opened over 60 Community Technology Centers across
the globe serving nearly 100,000 youth and other community members; has
provided nearly 20,000 hours of service to the community through
salesforce.com's employee volunteers; and supports salesforce.com in its
efforts to offer its award winning online customer relationship management
application to more than 700 qualified nonprofits globally saving them
hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. It is the recipient of the
national 2003 Points of Awards Award for Excellence in Corporate Community
Service and the national 2003 U.S. Chamber of Commerce's first annual
Corporate Stewardship Award. More information is available at www.salesforcefoundation.org.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer
relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand
applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales,
support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange,
salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to
build powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and
integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and
distribute and sell on-demand apps at http://www.appexchange.com.
Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's
world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of October 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 18,700 customers and approximately 351,000 paying
subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL),
Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental
Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any
unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases
or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered
on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications
should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are
currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco,
with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange
under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call
1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
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Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco,
California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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