
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at a luncheon in San Francisco. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne are donating $30 million to UCSF to research the causes and potential solutions for homelessness. The five-year initiative housed at the University of California, San Francisco will conduct academic research into homelessness and train future researchers in the field.
Main Idea: Marc Benioff and his wife are giving $30 million to UCSF to fund a five-year effort to study homelessness and find better solutions.
Key Points:
The donation may not fix homelessness quickly, so taxpayers and residents could still face high housing and service costs.
UCSF research could improve data and guide better homelessness programs for cities, patients, and communities.
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Central donor whose $30 million gift and stated goals drive the story.
Primary recipient of the donation and host of the homelessness research initiative.
Named leader of the UCSF center and quoted about the initiative’s purpose and methods.
Co-donor in the major philanthropic donation funding the homelessness research initiative.
The homelessness crisis and prior city tax measure are central background to Benioff’s philanthropy and policy influence.
The initiative will be housed within this UCSF center, making it a supporting institutional actor.
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