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• Published date: 01 June 2019
• Date: 01 June 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30617

NONPROFIT BUSINESS ADVISOR JUNE 2019

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DOI: 10.1002/nba

duties, which was often reected by a corresponding

change in work hours, compensation or career prospects.

The judge granted a summary judgment in favor

of the department.

[Robertson v. State of Wisconsin Department of

Health Services, et al., U.S. District Court for the

Eastern District of Wisconsin, No. 18-CV-116,

01/02/2019]. ■

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National Give OUT Day raises over

$1.1 million for LGBTQ causes

Give OUT Day, the only national day of giving

for the LGBTQ community, raised over $1.1 million

for more than 475 nonprots, setting a new record

for the single-day campaign, which was held this year

on April 18. Organized by the San Francisco–based

Horizons Foundation, Give OUT Day is a 24-hour

online fundraising event that unites the LGBTQ

community from all 50 states and the District of

Columbia to raise critically needed funds.

Throughout the daylong event, thousands of

people make gifts to support a vast array of LGBTQ

nonprots across the country, including the arts, so-

cial services agencies, advocacy groups, sports leagues,

community centers and health care nonprots. Since

its inception in 2013, the event has raised over $6

million from more than 58,000 individual donors,

supporting more than 600 different organizations in

every part of the country. Next year, Give OUT Day

is scheduled for April 16.

For more information, visit https://www.giveoutday.

org.

Salesforce to merge with its social

enterprise, Salesforce.org

Salesforce, a leader in customer relationship man-

agement software, has announced that Salesforce.

org, the independent nonprot social enterprise, will

be integrated into Salesforce. With Salesforce.org,

Salesforce will scale its philanthropic efforts and

create strategic synergies and operational simplicity

that will enable the company to drive even greater

success for its nonprot, education and philanthropy

customers, the company said.

When Salesforce was founded in 1999, the com-

pany pioneered the 1-1-1 model of integrated corpo-

rate philanthropy, donating 1 percent of its equity,

product and employee time to communities around

the world. To date, Salesforce and Salesforce.org have

provided technology for free or at a discount to more

than 40,000 nonprots and education institutions and

donated more than $260 million in grants. In addi-

tion, employees of both Salesforce and Salesforce.

org have volunteered some 3.8 million hours of their

time in their communities.

According to the company, when combining the

two organizations, Salesforce.org will convert from

a California public benet corporation into a Cali-

fornia business corporation and Salesforce will pay

a purchase price of $300 million for all shares of

Salesforce.org. The $300 million will be distributed to

the independent Salesforce.com Foundation, a sepa-

rate 501(c)(3) organization, for further distribution

by the foundation for future philanthropic purposes.

Afterward, Salesforce will continue to provide free

and highly discounted software to nonprots and

education institutions around the world, and invest

in local communities through employee volunteering,

strategic grants and matching employee giving up to

$5,000 per employee annually.

For more information, visit https://www.salesforce.

com.

JPMorgan announces winners

in AdvancingCities Challenge

JPMorgan Chase has selected the rst round of

cities to win its AdvancingCities Challenge, an annual

competition to source innovative and sustainable so-

lutions to address the most persistent problems facing

communities. The winners are Chicago; Louisville,

Ky.; Miami; San Diego; and Syracuse, N.Y. Led by

local nonprots, the selected cities successfully built

local coalitions of public, private and nonprot lead-

ers working together to address major social and

economic challenges such as employment barriers,

nancial insecurity and neighborhood disinvestment.

Proposals were required to incorporate at least two

of four strategic drivers of inclusive growth within

JPMorgan Chase’s model for impact: jobs and skills,

small business, neighborhood revitalization and

nancial health. The company will award the ve

winning cities $3 million each over a period of three

years, for a total of $15 million, to further support

their programs and initiatives. ■