Salesforce’s billionaire CEO, Marc Benioff, announced that he will donate $150 million to Hawaii hospitals. His move comes a week after local residents were alarmed by reports that he had secretly amassed about 600 acres of green space in Waimea, Hawaii.
Of the nine-figure donation, $50 million will go to Hilo Medical Center, and the remaining $100 million will go to nonprofit medical organization Hawaii Pacific Health, which will support Honolulu-based Straub Medical’s Future “We will support the construction of a medical campus.”According to joint center press release Published Tuesday.
“We have been part of the Hawaiian community for decades and feel fortunate to be able to support our ohana in this way,” said Benioff and his wife, Lynn. A word used by Native Hawaiians that means “family”).
The Benioffs added in a previously reported press release: gizmodo: “Nothing is more important than the health of our community and the access to care for everyone who needs it.”
Nevertheless, as news of the 59-year-old tech mogul’s growing footprint in Hawaii makes headlines, local residents are complaining that his series of 38 land purchases has led to soaring housing costs and communities. I am concerned that the culture of Japan will be dismantled.
Tuesday’s statement said the funding will “deepen ties between Hawaii hospitals and UCSF Health in San Francisco, home of Salesforce, one of the world’s largest software companies, which owns the popular business messaging app Slack.” Stated.
A press release said Benioff’s donation was “developed after more than a year of collaboration,” but the timing raised questions.
NPR revealed last week that Benioff has purchased more than 30 parcels of land in Waimea (a cowboy country with a population of less than 10,000 people) since 2000 through a nonprofit organization and at least six anonymous limited liability companies (LLCs). I made it. Same San Francisco Bay Area address.
Approximately 165 acres of his land are set aside for Benioff and his family, and the remaining land is used as a community center and affordable housing complex, among other philanthropic efforts, NPR reports.
Benioff was reportedly adamant to NPR journalist Dara Kerr that “there is nothing in Hawaii owned by Salesforce.” [and] That’s never the case.” Mr. Benioff recalled that he was “reluctant” to talk about the properties he had purchased using an anonymous LLC.
“He started talking faster and faster and fidgeting with paper in his hand,” Kerr wrote when asked about the land purchase.
San Francisco is also Benioff’s primary residence, and he owns a multimillion-dollar mansion in the city’s exclusive Sea Cliff neighborhood. Details about Benioff’s home are unknown, but an adjacent waterfront villa in Seacliff recently sold for $25 million. forbes.
Representatives for Mr. Benioff at Salesforce did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
