Dan McGarry, a Salesforce product manager, had his Slack status switched to \u201caway\u201d for a full year, but he was still hard at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While McGarry\u2019s colleagues fine-tuned Sales Cloud for an upcoming release, McGarry circled blocks in San Francisco\u2019s Tenderloin neighborhood, working to distribute vaccines to the city\u2019s most at-risk populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McGarry was on secondment with the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI). During secondment, Salesforce places employees in organizations aligned to the company\u2019s business values and purpose to apply their skills toward an important mission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
McGarry, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on homelessness in San Francisco, joined BHHI to help provide both subject matter expertise and tech proficiency as the organization worked to combat the pandemic\u2019s effects. For Salesforce, McGarry\u2019s secondment represents the company\u2019s core value of stakeholder capitalism, with San Francisco, the company\u2019s headquarters, itself serving as a key stakeholder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBy the time this is published BHHI will have delivered over 2,500 vaccinations to some of the hardest-to-reach patients in San Francisco, including hundreds of unhoused and marginally housed individuals \u2014 almost all the work of volunteer nurses, doctors, pharmacists, UCSF students, and other engaged citizens,\u201d McGarry said.<\/p>\n\n\n
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