**BREAKING: Marc Benioff’s ‘Benevolent’ $10M Hawaii Donation Has a Catch — And It’s Not What You Think**

BREAKING: Marc Benioff’s ‘Benevolent’ $10M Hawaii Donation Has a Catch — And It’s Not What You Think

In a move that has Silicon Valley insiders raising eyebrows, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is being hailed as a “philanthropic hero” for donating $10 million to public schools in Hawaii. But a leaked internal memo—and a quiet clause in the donation agreement—suggests the real beneficiary isn’t the children.

Sources confirm the funds are tied to a “Workforce Development Partnership” that funnels student data directly into Salesforce’s AI training models. The clause? Schools must adopt Salesforce’s Education Cloud as their primary student management system—locking Hawaii’s education infrastructure into a proprietary ecosystem for at least a decade.

Critics call it “privacy philanthropy”: a tax-deductible way to turn public school kids into unpaid data miners for a multibillion-dollar corporation. Meanwhile, Benioff takes victory laps on social media, framed as the savior of underserved communities.

The big question: Who really benefits when a tech billionaire’s “charity” comes with a built-in return on investment?