Soapbox Engage Blog

There's something about the great outdoors that gives you the opportunity to think about big ideas. While my fellow Soapbox Engage teammates plan another year of innovations in the Sierra Nevada, I've pulled together some of the big ideas straight from our Power of Us Hub community from the past week. Grab a hiking stick and come join us at our warming hut of Salesforce knowledge. Coffee is on the house.

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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. NPSP Days Launch In Local Communities
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   Wouldn't it be nice, once a year, to bring together fellow Nonprofit Starter Pack folks in your local community to share knowledge, provide training, and find the next generation of community contributions? Guess what? It's happening! Discover the first three cities hosting NPSP Days this year, and start one for yours!

2. Same contact in same campaign?
   Nelson Fredsell (AMIS)

   The "special snowflake" that is the Campaign Member object can cause heartburn to a Salesforce admin. Here's your antacid solution to help make things better.

3. How to keep track of non-deductible vs. deductible donations
   Beth Winton (Lake Avenue Community Foundation)

   When gala attendees buy hugely popular "Burrito dinner with Ryan" for $100, where should I store the fair market value (say, $8) of this contribution? Also, does the NPSP recommend the best local taqueria?

4. Would people be interested in more sophisticated gender/sex data?
   Ken Tyler (Musically Minded Academy)

   Our community is full of innovative folks building fantastic solutions to help us grow. Here, Ken gives you the GenderBread Person, expanding our vocabulary for gender in Salesforce's Contact object.

5. An easy way to remove duplicate contacts in report caused by multiple affiliations?
   Xue Wang (Center For Strategic and International Studies)

   The Affiliations object brings so much power...and so many duplicates in reporting on Contacts in it. How can you concatenate the found Contacts so they only appear once in an Affiliate object report?

6. Root Cause Message for NA14 Outage
   Anne Young (Salesforce.org)

   The NA14 Salesforce server cloud had, let's say, a very rainy day a few weeks ago. Salesforce.com provided this root cause message to go into detail about what happened and how they plan to prevent it in the future.

7. Proposal: add manual override capabilities in membership rollup
   David Cheng (Idealist Consulting)

   Every time I look at one of my membership cards in my wallet, a give a tiny smile when I see that "Member since" date. But what if that date was updated every year? Would I still be smiling? David has some ideas of keeping certain fields as first entered for membership organizations that could help avoid overwriting important data.

8. The NPSP Learns Spanish - Release Notes Rundown v3.73
   Tim Forbes (Soapbox Engage)

   Hola NPSP! In this video recap of the latest NPSP release, learn how the NPSP speaks Spanish!

9. Campaigns - Best Practices
   Elise Cope (Rainier Valley Food Bank)

   Oh Campaigns, flexible and often times confusing you can be. If you're looking to get the most out of Campaign hierarchies, this thread is for you.

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. HUB Office Hours on Fri, May 27 at 12pm ET
   Caroline Renard (Technology Interpreter for Arts Groups)

   It's going to be a mystery panel for the last HUB Office Hours in May! I'm betting Caroline will get Marc Benioff himself to sit in. Just a wild guess.

2. Getting Started Webinars: Configure and Customize
   Marc Baizman (Salesforce.org)

   Some organizations find themselves stuck in a situation where Salesforce is just a modern Rolodex...with a fun logo in the upper-left of each card. Take your first steps in using Salesforce for going beyond the Contact, like fundraising, in this webinar.

That's all for this week! Did I miss something? Have any tips or suggestions? Send all tip jar suggestions to me at cozimek@picnet.net.

Keep soaking up the goodness!

Your barkeeper,
Ryan

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