The Warriors Community Foundation, in partnership with Salesforce, and Taube Philanthropies, has granted a total of $681,500 to eight Bay Area non-profit organizations, equating to $85,187.50 each, as part of the Warriors’ Hoops For Kids Program, it was announced today.
Warriors Hoops For Kids, Presented by Salesforce, Donates to Bay Area Youth
Through the Hoops For Kids program, each Warriors three-pointer during the regular season yields $500 for eight non-profit organizations working locally to improve opportunities and successful outcomes for youth. Golden State’s 1,363 made three-pointers through the 2022-23 NBA regular season slate of 82 games resulted in a total grant of $681,500. The amount raised by the Warriors Community Foundation, with the help of Salesforce and Taube Philanthropies, provided each of the eight organizations with $85,187.50.
“We are proud to partner with the Warriors Community Foundation to help drive critical investment back into local Bay Area communities,” said Salesforce Senior Vice President of Philanthropy & COO of the Salesforce Foundation, Becky Ferguson. “We share a commitment to ensuring that our young people can achieve educational and career success.”
Including the Hoops for Kids program, the Warriors Community Foundation will have committed more than $3.7 million to Bay Area organizations over the 2022-23 season, a single-season record for the organization. Since its inception in 2012, the Warriors Community Foundation has delivered more than $31 million in impact to support education and youth development in the Bay Area.
This year’s Hoops For Kids program, presented by Salesforce, supports the following organizations:
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland – Provides safe places to learn and grow, life-enhancing programs, hope and opportunity.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco – Inspires and enables young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
- Playworks Northern California – Provides play and physical activity at low-income schools, helping children connect with other kids and grow physically, emotionally and socially.
- East Oakland Youth Development Center – Develops social and leadership capacities in youth to excel in education, career and service to their communities.
- 100 Black Men of the Bay Area – Improves the quality of life within the Bay Area community and enhances educational and economic opportunities for disadvantaged, disenfranchised and low-income youth and families.
- Booker T. Washington Community Service Center – empowers the lives of their neighbors by offering individuals and families the services and support they need to become self-sufficient.
- California Academy of Sciences – The CiS program at the California Academy of Sciences is a multi-year, year-round, paid internship and youth development program for San Francisco high school students who come from communities underrepresented in STEM, including girls and students of color.
- OK Program – Focuses on developing leadership and critical thinking skills, promoting academic excellence, and reducing the high rates of incarceration and homicide amongst young African American males.
About the Warriors Community Foundation
The Warriors Community Foundation supports education and youth development to promote thriving students, schools and communities. The Foundation makes grants to improve educational equity in Alameda and San Francisco Counties, refurbishes public basketball courts around the Bay Area, and donates thousands of tickets each season to local schools and nonprofits. Established in 2012, the Foundation extends the team’s impact locally and continues a longstanding tradition of community involvement. It is sustained by generous contributions from Warriors owners, players, partners, and fans. To learn more, visit https://community.warriors.com/foundation.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies of every size and industry to digitally transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.
About Taube Philanthropies
For over 30 years, Taube Philanthropies has been a leader in supporting diverse educational, cultural, and community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Poland and Israel. Founded by Tad Taube in 1981, the organization works to ensure that free citizens have the full opportunity for advancement of their goals and dreams. Taube Philanthropies is committed to collaborative giving – enhancing charitable impact through partnerships and active engagement with individual donors, foundations and other charitable organizations. For more information, visit taubephilanthropies.org.
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