The Salesforce Foundation has a global mission, ensuring nonprofit success around the world and making nonprofits aware of our product donation program is one of our top focuses. Salesforce is available in fifteen languages including Spanish. I used to live in Argentina and find myself back in the country a couple of times a year and have spent quite a bit of time working with Idealist in their Buenos Aires office. Idealist is a great organization for nonprofits and also a very successful user of Salesforce.com. Their website is integrated with Salesforce.com and fully integrated into every aspect of their operation.

With my last visit to Argentina we decided to host an event for nonprofits in Buenos Aires and "hacer un poco de ruido" or make a little bit of noise.  We hosted the event at the Circulo Italiano and had about 50 people there from 30 different organizations.  We had three speakers, I first talked about the license donation program and gave a company overview, the next speaker was Jans Larssen from HelpArgentina.  HelpArgentina uses our product for contact/account/donation tracking, and also received a grant from the Salesforce.com Foundation and continues to work to improve the integration of their website with Salesforce.com. The third and final speaker was Matias Laurenz from Idealist.  Matias did a great job discussing how to use Salesforce successfully and some of the ways that Idealist is using it in their day to day operations. The speakers were followed by a Q and A session. We were lucky to also be joined by ETIS and Endeavor, both Salesforce.com customers. It was a very exciting event and we received a lot of positive feedback afterward on the program. Additional pictures are located here : http://picasaweb.google.com/mlaurenz/SFEvent

Chris Atwood