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Salesforce Pumps Millions into Underserved Schools

Post author By admin
Post date September 28, 2018

A woman is holding up a Salesforce sticker in front of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. — Photo credit: Bjorn Bakstad / Shutterstock

Salesforce.org, the charitable arm of a cloud-computing company based in San Francisco, has been in a philanthropic relationship with two Bay Area school districts for five years now. This year, the combined $15.5 million donations put their contributions over $50 million. San Francisco Unified School District will be receiving $8 million, and the slightly smaller […]

Tags donations, Marc Benioff, Oakland, Salesforce, San Francisco, school district

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Housing Project in Oakland Fails to Start

Post author By admin
Post date July 24, 2015

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a long-standing attempt to build affordable public housing near the Coliseum BART station in East Oakland is all but dead. Beginning in 2003, the plan was to turn a large parking lot near the light rail station into a housing village with shops. It was supposed to house 10,000 […]

Tags Affordable housing, charity, Oakland, philanthropy

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