New Tipping Point Initiative Continues Community-Building Efforts

Tipping Point Community, a San Francisco-based organization that uses 100 percent of its contributions to support the work of some of the hardest-working community nonprofit groups, announced its launch of SF Gives in March 2014. Dedicated to fighting poverty in the Bay Area through financial and in-kind donations and advisory services to carefully vetted groups, Tipping Point Community has drawn widespread support from executives in high-tech, business, and other professional fields.

Through the SF Gives initiative, Tipping Point Community aims to raise $10 million over two months. Funds are set to be dedicated to funding anti-poverty programs assisting individuals in need of safe housing, educational opportunities, and job training. At the March 7 launch date, more than half of the $10 million goal had already been committed, with a variety of local corporations pledging support.

Google, Zynga, PopSugar, and LinkedIn are among the best known of the companies giving to the SF Gives initiative so far. Marc Benioff, CEO of software company Salesforce.com, served as a driving force behind the new program and urged his fellow leaders in Bay Area technology companies to lend their support and dollars to the effort. Benioff, who initially solicited 20 companies to contribute half a million dollars each, would like to eventually expand the fundraising goal of SF Gives to $100 million.