Salesforce is a collaborative and supportive community, with everyone willing to help others get a step up in the ecosystem. This is the spirit that Gaspar Rodriguez, Nick Broekema, and Marielle Schweickart wanted to capture when they founded Blue Road Academy (formerly RefugeeForce) in 2018 – to help un- and under-employed refugees in the Netherlands secure a Salesforce role.

Now they have expanded all over Europe, but they still have the same goal: to change the perceptions of employers, organizations, and the general public in terms of the experience and skills that newcomers can bring as they build new lives in their host countries...