The announcement comes days before the return of Salesforce\u2019s Dreamforce, San Francisco\u2019s biggest conference. It is expected to have 45,000 attendees and a projected $130 million in local spending. An area of the conference will encourage attendees to pledge 1% of equity, tech and time to philanthropy, as Salesforce has done.<\/p>\n
The Benioffs have previously given hundreds of millions of dollars to UCSF, which named its children\u2019s hospitals in both San Francisco and Oakland after them. The Benioffs and Salesforce have surpassed $1 billion in Bay Area giving over the past decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not something that will happen over a business quarter or even over a five-year period. This is a deep partnership, it\u2019s incredible to be able to build year over year,\u201d said Sunya Norman, Salesforce\u2019s senior vice president of impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt UCSF Benioff Children\u2019s Hospitals, we believe world-class health care should be available to children and families of all needs and backgrounds. Salesforce\u2019s sustained support helps us realize that vision, by expanding and modernizing our pediatric facilities, launching new initiatives in our communities, and providing life-changing care for thousands of children each year,\u201d said Nicholas Holmes, president of the hospitals in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Salesforce\u2019s grants include $13 million to public schools including San Francisco Unified School District\u00a0and Oakland Unified School District, which are facing budget crises. The money will help students learn and train on AI. Another $17 million is going to 18 nonprofits focusing on AI, including Beyond 12, College Track, Common Sense Media, the Kapor Center and Khan Academy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSalesforce\u2019s historic commitment to San Francisco\u2019s public schools is a model of philanthropic impact in public education,\u201d said Dr. Maria Su, SFUSD\u2019s superintendent, in a statement. Prior donations have helped create a computer curriculum and supported over 120,000 students and families over 13 years, she said.<\/p>\n
Although Benioff has given extensively to the city, Salesforce has also drawn controversy and protests at prior Dreamforces for its work with U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement comes days before the return of Salesforce\u2019s Dreamforce, San Francisco\u2019s biggest conference. It is expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,15,1570,143,145,144,101,995],"class_list":{"0":"post-1004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}