2008 Turn It Up Grant Recipients

These grants are for visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com technology to support their ability to implement their social change mission.

United States

Atlas Service Corps, Inc., Washington, DC

Atlas Corps facilitates international fellowships for rising citizen sector leaders who volunteer overseas for at least one year.  They intend to expand their use of Salesforce to manage administration and outreach to the global nonprofit community as part of their innovative fellowship program that brings nonprofit leaders from the developing world to volunteer in the U.S.

Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, California

BAVC's program areas encompass a wide array of services and demographics: customized and open classes and workshops; youth programs with significant case management and evaluation components; and a large media arts and post-production department offering a wide range of customer services. This grant will further develop its Salesforce implementation to meet the growing need for technology training to support its mission of connecting underserved populations with new opportunities in media technology.

MicroMentor, San Francisco, California

MicroMentor connects entrepreneurs with experienced peers and volunteer business mentors. This grant will expand their use of Salesforce to deepen relationships with partners. MicroMentor will demonstrate better communication on the performance and business outcomes for its program. The outcome will be that entrepreneurs grow their businesses through relationships with experienced peers and business professionals.

Association for Effective Schools, Stuyvesant, New York

This grant is to use Salesforce to build a data model for use as the template for K-12 schools to improve instruction through their access to instructional data.

Europe, Africa

The Great Generation, London, England

The Great Generation’s mission is to enable communities to embrace opportunities for development and seek solutions to poverty. With this grant they are building on their use of Salesforce to manage microfinance programs across the developing world in partnership with community-based organizations.

U-Turn Homeless Ministry, Cape Town, South Africa

U-Turn works specifically to address the rehabilitation and reintegration needs of the homeless. U-Turn is in the process of launching a city-wide Salesforce database project for all charities in Cape Town to track interactions with their clients. This project is to use Salesforce to create a common platform between nonprofits operating in Cape Town as part of U-Turn's mission to help the homeless receive meaningful assistance from organizations seeking to help them.

Asia

World Toilet Organization, Singapore, Singapore

With this grant they plan to implement Salesforce to help increase efficiency, productivity with quantifiable impact on fund generation, partnerships nurtured and network servicing as part of its mission to improve health and sanitation worldwide through toilet education and sustainable sanitation.

2008 Technology for Youth Development Grant Recipients

These grants are for visionary youth development-focused nonprofit organizations for technology projects or solutions that advance their organizations' core mission.

United States

Bay Area Community Resources' Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids Youthline, San Francisco, California

Communities in Harmony Advocating for Learning and Kids, or CHALK, is a San Francisco project providing a range of youth services with a specific focus on transformative youth development and employment. CHALK’s employment programs place in-risk youth on the front lines as service providers for their peers.  Youth are trained, supported, and gain essential job and life skills, all while positively contributing to the community. This grant is intended to help reconstruct the Youthline Call Center and Resource Directory built on Microsoft Access onto Salesforce to enhance youth development through exposure to and use of new Web 2.0 technology and VoIP.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area, San Francisco, California

The vision of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to provide a caring adult mentor to every child in need across five Bay Area counties. This grant will help expand on the success of its 2007 grant to integrate fundraising and financial data into its Salesforce system to free up resources and reduce operational expenses to focus on its mission of providing high-quality mentoring experience to young people in the Bay Area.

Sports4Kids, Oakland, California

Sports4Kids is a nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess and throughout the entire school day.This grant will help maximize its use of Salesforce to improve communication with donors, enhance their recruiting efforts and provide accessible, user-friendly trainings for community organizations as part of its mission to improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

Streetside Stories, San Francisco, California

Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills.This grant will help to further the mission of the media arts programs at MLK Middle School which are designed to cultivate young people's voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy, and arts skills.

Europe

Children in Crisis, London, England

Children in Crisis exists to improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty or other hidden crises, by working in partnership with local communities to provide education, healthcare and protection.  This grant will help Children in Crisis to use Salesforce to improve and maximize the reach of its d:side (drugs: support, information, drug education) curriculum resource program to schools in the UK, Ukraine and Italy.

CALM Africa - Kiganda Vocational Centre, Uganda

To improve the welfare of children and young people especially the vulnerable and disadvantaged through the promotion of the observance of children's rights, provision of life sustaining skills and creation of structures that offer an enabling environment for child protection and development.

Asia Pacific

The Education for Development Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

To expand the technology-assisted health promotion program designed to enable rural students to become computer literate in an effort to cover more needy schools, children and communities.

Polaris Project, Tokyo, Japan

Polaris Project is committed to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery and to strengthen anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach  This grant supported the build of an outreach website for at-risk youth to prevent teen domestic violence, commercial sexual exploitation, and other forms of abuse.