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Tides Center Builds Custom Grant Tracking, Contract Management and Financial Operations Applications using the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service from Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com's 1% product donation program helps innovative nonprofit transform its organization to better serve others
SAN FRANCISCO - August 4, 2008 - The Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced that Tides Center, a sector-leading nonprofit that provides back-office services to over 200 socially innovative projects across the country, has completely transformed its business using donated and discounted licenses of Salesforce CRM and Force.com as part of salesforce.com's 1% Product Donation Program. Using the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service, Tides Center built a set of custom, Software-as-a-Service applications to improve services to its projects by streamlining processes, reducing redundancies, eliminating paperwork, and minimizing data entry error. Salesforce.com partner CASA Customer Solutions helped design and deploy the Force.com applications for Tides Center.