Salesforce is a software-as-a-service CRM provider and the owner of Slack Technologies, Tableau, and more. Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff, leverages corporate power to change policies he does not like or terminate clients with whom he disagrees. Salesforce dropped the Republican National Committee as a client, refuses to license its CRM to firearms vendors, and has threatened to divest from certain states based on state legislation. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Salesforce increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Salesforce forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. Salesforce provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. America First Legal filed a letter with the EEOC requesting a civil rights investigation into Salesforce over discriminatory practices in hiring. The company does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs guidelines, but does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees. Salesforce funds Planned Parenthood. Salesforce is a gold partner of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a founding member of the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE), and pledged $1 million dollars to BLM and related causes. The company regularly uses its reputation to push gender ideology and is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The company is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. Salesforce and Slack signed an amicus brief in opposition to the 2016 North Carolina bathroom bill HB2. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. Salesforce is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. Salesforce has also donated to the Equality PAC. For these reasons, Salesforce receives a High Risk rating.