com to provide their award-winning
CRM service, as well as training, administration and support services, at no
cost to more than 750 nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations worldwide . The custom portal offered an
ideal solution that provided an easy way to integrate with Salesforce .358.

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And best of all, I now get my
instruments delivered more quickly and can get my classes started sooner than
ever before! The impact of the implementation was felt immediately by
teachers and students alike.

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The Foundation has built a new model to support how corporations
can more deeply serve the communities in which they operate. Little Kids Rock restores music to its rightful place in
the academic lives of kids in our public schools by providing a rich music
education program including instrument instruction, free instruments and
trained mentors.

2005 Peninsula Community Foundation.

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As the leader in
integrating philanthropy and business, the Foundation has pioneered the 1/1/1
model for corporate philanthropic change. Founded by a single elementary school teacher in 1996, Little
Kids Rock is now serving thousands of students in CA, NY, NJ and TN. Bonnie
Raitt, Paul Simon, B.

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The inability to analyze program statistics in a timely manner negatively
impacted program management and fundraising plans. Little Kids Rock now
enjoys access to program statistics in real-time and is able to communicate
with teachers more effectively.
I now feel like I'm part of a bigger family."

About Salesforce Foundation
Salesforce Foundation's fundamental mission is to enable community success
and build the capacity of nonprofit organizations.com in its efforts to offer its award-winning on-demand customer
relationship management application to more than 700 qualified nonprofits
globally, saving the sector millions of dollars every year.littlekidsrock .pcf.

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Little Kids Rock Relies on Salesforce.com for Organizational Expansion and Program Success

Little Kids
Rock lacked a centralized and effective system for collecting class and
student data , tracking program statistics and communicating with teachers.
Since July 2000, the Foundation has opened more than 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 is a registered trademark of, and AppExchange, and
Successforce are trademarks of salesforce. The purpose
of the survey is to solicit anonymous feedback from a foundation's
nonprofit partners and to provide comparative data with other foundations."

"PCF is very committed to improving the quality of life for members of our
community, and they understand the needs of our region because the program
officers go into the field and conduct their own research," said Luisa
Buada, Chief Executive Officer, Ravenswood Family Health Center.

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Peninsula Community Foundation today
announced the release of its results from the 2005 Grantee Perception
Report (GPR) compiled by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a national
nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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a flexible platform to support future growth," said Laura Subotky, Chief
Operating Officer , Little Kids Rock. and abroad.S. "While our donors provide us with
invaluable feedback on how we can improve our services, nonprofits may
hesitate to give us constructive criticism given their reliance on our
funding. Results were compared to other
foundations whose grantees were also surveyed .

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Little Kids Rock of America, a
national nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring music to its rightful
place in the academic lives of kids in our public schools, is using
salesforce.' What this tells us is that while PCF
awards larger grants than the median foundation, we require much more time
from our grantees during the reporting and evaluation processes. PCF
is easy to work with, responsive and an incredible resource -- we are
extremely fortunate and blessed to be working with them. Peninsula Community Foundation is
a registered trademark, and Center for Venture Philanthropy, Peninsula
Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, and the Peninsula Nonprofit
Center are trademarks of Peninsula Community Foundation.

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" The
Center surveyed more than 22,000 grantees of 117 foundations nationwide in
2003 and 2004, including 113 grantees of PCF for the report . "The Report is also an excellent benchmarking tool and a
good indicator of areas where we can become more efficient.

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Salesforce.com execute their goal of donating 1 percent of their
product to the community annually, 1 percent of founding equity to community
programs and 1 percent of employee working hours to volunteerism.salesforcefoundation.

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Prior to implementing Salesforce, Little Kids Rock used paper-based data
collection. More information can be found at: http://www.

"The results are a tremendous affirmation of the hard work and dedication
of our staff, and of our commitment to serve the community we live in,"
Speirn noted.

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The Foundation
also strives to better the lives of youth by supporting technology and
educational programs in underserved communities both in the U. More information is available at
http://www.

About Little Kids Rock
Little Kids Rock believes that music is a critical component of first-rate
education.B.

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It is the
recipient of the national 2003 Points of Awards award for Excellence in
Corporate Community Service and the national 2003 U. Many elementary schools have been stripped of their music programs., San Francisco,
California.9369 or
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com with program
support provided by the Salesforce Foundation. Salesforce CRM solutions allows Little
Kids Rock to efficiently manage instrument donations, funding and grants
attainment and communications to its constituents.

PRESS RELEASE Peninsula Community Foundation Receives High Scores From Center for Effective Philanthropy Survey

We look forward to continuing
to work closely with our grantees so as to become an even more effective
philanthropic and community partner in the years to come."

On behalf of PCF, the Center surveyed 113 grantees that received funding in
2003 from the foundation's Community Endowment or from the Center for
Venture Philanthropy, a division of PCF.
PCF divisions include the Center for Venture Philanthropy, the
Peninsula Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, and the
Peninsula Nonprofit Center.

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com's award-winning CRM service to manage program activities,
donations, track funding and grants, plan program expansion and communicate
easily with volunteers, donors and clients about upcoming events and programs. It is incredible to be able to
get the latest resources from Little Kids Rock in real-time, assess my
students ' progress and order instruments.com's employee volunteers; and supports
salesforce."

Key findings of the report include:

-- PCF is highly rated in both its impact on the community and its fields
of funding, which is not typical of regionally focused funders.

-- PCF provides its grantees with much more non-monetary assistance than
is typical, including management, field-related and operational assistance. For example,
our lowest score in the survey was at the median level for 'dollar return
on grantee administrative hours.

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Licenses were donated to Little Kids Rock by salesforce. The power of
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-- The foundation provides grantees with more assistance securing funding
from other sources - which is a very valuable service for grantees.

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Jon Cohen, a teacher in an elementary school in Oakland California
recalled, "The custom portal has helped me stay connected to Little Kids Rock.org. King , Jason Newsted, Steve Vai, Brad Delson, Dave
Mason, James Burton and Les Paul sit on our Honorary Board of Directors and we
are supported by friends Tom Waits, Carlos Santana, Phish, Bob Weir and
others.

"With a Community Endowment that now exceeds $113 million, generating more
than
$6 million in local grantmaking, it is important to us to receive honest
assessments on how well we are serving the nonprofit community, which is
one of our two key constituencies," said Sterling Speirn, President,
Peninsula Community Foundation. Both our
Center for Venture Philanthropy and our Community Programs staff are
committed to high-engagement work with our grantees, but we need to see how
we can streamline some of our evaluation requirements so that they are not
'cumbersome ' as one survey respondent noted.org.

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Salesforce. Chamber of Commerce
first annual Corporate Stewardship Award.
These cuts have had a disproportionately large impact on children from low-
income backgrounds. Based on the
survey responses, the Center for Effective Philanthropy noted that,
"Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF) is highly rated across nearly all
dimensions, a finding that is unusual in the Center's experience.

About Peninsula Community Foundation

For 40 years , Peninsula Community Foundation has worked with nonprofits,
donors, and government agencies to change the world -- one community at a
time.

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"Armed with Salesforce, Little Kids Rock is poised for rapid growth with
plans to serve new geographies and students.com's product to the nonprofit community, 1 percent of founding
equity to community programs and 1 percent of employee working hours to
volunteerism. "They are
one of the leaders in funding innovative and well planned projects that
yield positive results. Through their grants, we have been able provide the
highest quality healthcare services to over 11,000 patients over the past 3
years, in an area that desperately needed a community health provider.

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com Provides Complimentary Licenses to Non-Profits as Part of
Ongoing Global Initiative to Build the Capacity of Non-Profit Organizations
Through Technology Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, Salesforce Foundation,
the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, announced today
their partnership with Little Kids Rock.
Using the complimentary user licenses for its teachers and a Partner Portal
Toolkit from salesforce.com employee volunteers and salesforce.S.com, Inc.

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com partner, Theikos, a
leading provider of CRM implementation, development and value-added solutions,
helped Little Kids Rock create a custom portal that enables teachers to submit
class and student data and implement Salesforce CRM across its locations. The
data entered through the portal is updated in Salesforce and analyzed on
demand using reports and dashboards.

-- The foundation is ranked highest among community foundations surveyed
in the quality of its interactions, impact on grantee organizations and
overall satisfaction. For more information call 650.

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com, Little Kids Rock was able to create a customized
teacher portal that allows instructors to input and access critical and time-
sensitive data in order to make informed decisions when planning and carrying
out their programs.
(Logo: http://www. The leader in fully
integrating business and the community, the Salesforce Foundation is chartered
with helping salesforce. To this end,
the Foundation has teamed with salesforce.

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The program, which has saved nonprofit organizations over $7 million in
product and services since its 1999 launch, enables these organizations to
streamline business processes in order to focus efforts on community service
success. However, as the organization expanded across four states and
participation in the program grew in the thousands, the paper method was
unable to efficiently manage enrollment and program planning. "Using Salesforce as a management tool
has changed us in a way we couldn't have imagined at the start. This model delivers 1 percent of
salesforce. With assets of over $609 million, including a $113 million Community
Endowment , PCF is an innovative leader in meeting the needs of the
community in the areas of children and families , education, health and
human services, the environment, the arts, and strengthening nonprofits.