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Salesforce aims to help immigrant students with donations to San Francisco, Oakland schools (CRM)

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

Like many of his peers, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s various proposals to restrict immigration and the number of refugees accepted into the US.

On Tuesday, Benioff is putting his company’s money where his mouth is. Salesforce.org, Salesforce’s nonprofit offshoot, is giving $12.2 million to the San Francisco and Oakland unified school districts, part of which will be used to support students from immigrant and refugee families.

The support for what Salesforce calls “newcomers” will particularly benefit Oakland Unified, where one in eight students has relocated from another country. In the last four read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com