World Community Grid establishes a permanent, flexible infrastructure that provides researchers with a readily available pool of computational power that can be applied on a global scale to very large and complex problems for the benefit of humanity. — contributing to communities — page changing the dynamics of corporate philanthropy When George Westerman, an IBM volunteer, needed to put together a $4 million capital campaign for a new community center in Ferndale, Michigan, he turned to the Technology Planning tool on the On Demand Community Web site.