In partnership with salesforce.com, C-Level Management hosts quarterly Lunch and Learn Seminars that present current information about Salesforce product updates and add-on applications to customers and prospects in Southern California. Each lunch and learn seminar is co-hosted by one of the Southern California Salesforce User Groups. The two-hour seminar is followed by a four-hour volunteer activity that engages members of the hosting user group, seminar attendees as well as friends and family to join together to package dry-ingredient meal packages for Stop Hunger Now.
Advanced Image Direct, a leading-edge direct mail production facility, hosted today’s meal packaging event at their state-of-the-art facility in Fullerton, CA. Advanced Image Direct is the creator of the popular Cloud2You application, a Salesforce AppExchange application giving users the ability to initiate printed direct mail directly from a lead or contact within Salesforce.

Frank Verrill, CEO of Advanced Image Direct/Cloud2You, said, “Following in C-Level’s example, we have increased our annual charitable donations and our employees have each personally become involved in giving-back to our community. Stepping up our involvement in giving-back has had an incredibly positive outcome for everyone in our company. “

The meals packaged for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger and aid relief organization, are shipped to third-world nations and distributed through school feeding programs or are sent to areas that have recently been affected by a natural disaster. The countries served by Stop Hunger Now lack the internal infrastructure due to political strife or rampant malnutrition of its population to offer adequate food supplies to its residents.

C-Level’s partnership with Stop Hunger Now has played an instrumental role in establishing a significant West Coast presence for the North Carolina-based Non-Profit Organization. Meal packaging events now occur several times a month on the west coast. Mickey Horner, the West Coast Regional Operations Manager, has launched an initiative to package 1,000,000 meals in Southern California in 2011.

C-Level Management is a certified Salesforce.com professional services organization focused on systems integration and application development. At the heart of the C-Level business practice is a dedication to the pursuit and education of philanthropic awareness. C-Level Management has an on-going partnership with the BigBrothers/BigSisters organizations in Orange County, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area. C-Level Management also plays a strategic advisory role in the information and technology operations and domestic expansion of Stop Hunger Now.

Join C-Level Management, Salesforce.com and the San Diego Salesforce User Group for a Lunch and Learn Seminar on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at the La Jolla Marriott. C-Level will introduce a new seminar topic, the Business Productivity Cloud, a collaborative model of cloud-based business operations utilizing social media communications.

C-Level through it’s “Giving Back” program raised over $42,500 and has already turned their sites on opening a new West Coast location in Orange County by early 2011.

Link to related articles:
Orange County Business Journal
http://www.ocbj.com/news/2010/jul/25/giving/

LADERA RANCH A birthday was a reason to fundraise for one Ladera Ranch resident.

Tristan Muller, who celebrated his 36th birthday Saturday, asked his friends to bring donations for Stop Hunger Now and its earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, Muller said.

The party raised $814. Muller, who works for a software consulting firm, said his company will match the amount by $500. He added that his wife’s employer would match that amount, for a total of $2,628 raised for Stop Hunger Now.

“Most people are looking for an opportunity to help,” Muller said.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/muller-237218-birthday-match.html

ATLANTA, February 4, 2010 – TalentQuest, a human capital management and software solutions firm, today introduces a new strategic approach to supporting the communities in which it operates. TQ Giving Back will enable qualified nonprofit organizations to take advantage of the same value-added software solutions and consulting services it provides businesses like Coca-Cola Enterprises, Cbeyond, Coldwell Banker, The Federal Reserve Bank, KPMG, Mizuno, Morgan Stanley, Mueller Water Products and Tech Data, at a fraction of the cost.

“We recognize that the work that nonprofit organizations do is incredibly important,” said Dr. Frank Merritt, TalentQuest’s CEO. “As such, we have always encouraged and supported our employees’ involvement in the community. Over the years this level of support has evolved to include contributions of our consultants’ professional time and discounted access to our software on a case-by-case basis.”

For many years, TalentQuest has been working with select nonprofit organizations on a discounted or free basis, including The Atlanta Union Mission, The Georgia Cancer Coalition, East Atlanta Kids Club, North Avenue Presbyterian Church, The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, The Special Olympics, Planned Parenthood, The Atlanta Opera, 21st Century Leaders and Junior Achievement of Georgia.

“Although we have always been proud of these contributions, we felt we could have an even greater impact with an organized, strategic approach to donating our time and services,” said Ann Evangelista, managing director of consulting services for TalentQuest’s Atlanta office. “TQ Giving Back takes our commitment to the next level, ensuring that our services and solutions are made available to all qualified nonprofit organizations, not just those with which our employees are personally involved.”

Below is a summary of the opportunities available to nonprofit organizations and the contributions that TalentQuest will make via its TQ Giving Back program.

• Qualified organizations will be provided access to TalentQuest’s software solutions at a 50 percent discount (including online assessments, performance management tools, organizational surveys, compensation management tools and 360 reviews).
• TalentQuest will donate up to $100,000 in consulting services each year through a grant program. Qualified organizations may submit applications for grants which will be reviewed by a committee comprised of TalentQuest employees as well as select clients and nonprofit leaders. Each will be considered on a case-by-case basis and grants will be awarded according to services needed.
• TalentQuest will donate up to $100,000 in consulting services and software solutions each year through a client appreciation program. As a token of the firm’s appreciation of their continued support, select TalentQuest clients will be given vouchers that they may pass along to nonprofit organizations of their choice. The organizations may apply these vouchers toward a variety of consulting services including board reviews, selection assessments, executive coaching and leadership development, or to TalentQuest’s software solutions including online assessments, performance reviews or compensation management, as desired.

TalentQuest will continue to support and encourage its employees’ individual contributions of time, providing four paid hours per month to volunteer at an organization of their choice. TalentQuest employees contribute approximately 1,500 volunteer hours each year to hundreds of organizations in all areas of service, including arts and sciences, health, the environment, technology, social justice and organizations providing services for women and children.

In difficult times like these, it is more important than ever to remember how fortunate we are and to share what we have – be it our time, our skills or our financial resources – with others,” said Merritt. “TalentQuest is committed to creating meaningful change in the communities we serve. We look forward to helping nonprofit organizations create a positive, performance-based culture of recognition and reward and to enabling their leaders to focus less time and energy on talent management issues and more on accomplishing their organizations’ important missions.”

About TalentQuest

TalentQuest has been strengthening organizational performance and advancing leadership for almost 40 years by blending the art of consulting with the science of technology. The company’s consultants and organizational psychologists deliver fully-integrated human capital management consulting and talent management solutions that span the entire employee lifecycle—from talent selection to leadership succession—enabling organizations to maximize the value of their investment in people. For more information, please visit www.talentquest.com.

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