Soapbox Engage Blog

When summer hits DC, it's pretty obvious. Just walking down the street in the middle of the day is a task that makes you feel you just stepped out of a steam room. So smart locals with visiting guests do their memorials tour late at night, when the temperature moves from "ridiculously hot and humid" to "still hot and humid". And that's just what I did late last night. Walking through the Martin Luther King Jr memorial, I came across the following engraving.

Reading this, I couldn't help but think about our community. So many here have focused their careers on serving the public to help move the needle of social justice. Today, we have a great opportunities to contribute to our non-profit Salesforce community, be it attending an NPSP Day or training others in your organization to leverage technology to increase impact.

When you run into a Salesforce wall, or come across a challenge that seems a bit insurmountable with Lightning (just saying!), remember that we're all in this together, and we're all doing our part to contribute to a better society. Keep on keeping on!

Don't forget, you can have the goodness of the PUB Crawl delivered into your inbox each Monday morning by subscribing today!

{loadposition blog-ad-pubcrawl}

Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. Sharing thoughts about Salesforce.org's successes and challenges
   Alicia Schmidt (Salesforce.org)

   As my friend Alicia Schmidt celebrates 7 amazing years at Salesforce.org, she'd like to hear from you. No, this isn't a call for congratulations to her, but a request to hear what you've loved about her team's work, and what can be approved. The feedback box is open!

2. Community documentation: why and how to use Leads
   Judi Sohn (Salesforce.org)

   Ever wonder why Leads are important? Are you even a little lost on how to use Leads? Well, a team of community volunteers set off on a mission to help deliver the knowledge from the NPSP Community Sprint in Baltimore!

3. Campaign structure best practices?
   Norm Copeland (Ethos Canada)

   Events are a perfect use case for leveraging Campaigns. But with the event's invitations, registrations, welcome emails, reminders, etc all created as Campaigns, how can we make the most sense of it all?

4. Keep up with NPSP and Salesforce Releases
   Veronica Beck (Salesforce.org)

   Keeping up with the NPSP's fast two-week release cycle can be hard work. Here's a guide to understand the process.

5. Importing contacts and accounts
   Chris Robinson (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)

   In case you're running into the walls that the cloud provides when uploading tons of Contacts (like system limits), this great lesson learned will help save you a bunch of time and frustration. Okay, at least frustration, it's going to take a while to upload.

6. EMEA Hub Office Hours recording from July 11
   James Browne (Giveclarity.org)

   For my amigos in the EMEA (and really, around the world), if you missed out on the fantastic EMEA Hub Office Hours, here's a great recording to catch up on all the great information shared!

7. Track and report foundation prospect research
   Rich Lalley (Operation Warm, Inc.)

   The NPSP does fantastic work for the fundraiser, but can it also provide benefits for the grant seeker? Learn and share best practices for using the NPSP to track grant prospecting.

8. Best workaround for missing Home Phone field in the Campaigns with Contacts report?
   Katie McFadden (Swift River Consulting)

   I know it's incredible to hear, but yes, even Salesforce has some "bugs" (or maybe "issues" with potentials "fixes" in the making!). Here's an odd one regarding phone numbers, and how you can work around it.

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. NPSP Day Bozeman - August 15
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   Just because the big blue skies of Montana might be light on the clouds in the summer, it doesn't mean that there's going to be a lack of Salesforce cloud knowledge shared at the next NPSP Day!

2. NPSP Day Washington DC - September 19
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   The NPSP Day calendar turns over to year two, with our first encore presentation in Washington DC! Join me in the nation's capital for a day of NPSP community knowledge sharing, networking, and training!

3. NPSP Day Chicago - October 20
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   My Polish family roots are deep in the Windy City, so I'm excited to announce that registration is now open for NPSP Day Chicago! Join us for a day of networking, community building, training, and knowledge sharing. If I show up late because I was waiting for Superdawg to open, don't be too surprised.

4. Data Model Hangout - Thu, Aug 24 @ 12pm ET
   Katie McFadden (Swift River Consulting)

   If you eat, sleep, and breathe data models consider joining an informal chat amongst fellow keep-the-data-clean friends.

5. LATAM Hub Office Hours - mier, 19 de Julio @ 12pm MEX
   Elena Inurrategui (La Clé)

   LATAM Horas de oficina esta semana. ¡Traiga sus preguntas!

6. HUB Office Hours - Fri, July 21 @ 12pm ET
   Caroline Renard (Technology Interpreter for Arts Groups)

   After a quick hiatus, HUB Office Hours will be returning this week with hosts Paige Van Riper, Nick Lindberg, and Barbara Christensen. Bring all questions to this general Q&A session!

7. NPSP Community Sprint in Chicago - Aug 8-9
   Judi Sohn (Salesforce.org)

   We're just a few weeks away from the community contribution event of the summer! Join me and a whole bunch of your NPSP friends, for a day of contributing to our open source community.

Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce

1. Alert to save changes before leaving/closing the Manage Household page
   Greg Moyer (Candoris)

   Pop up alerts are really handy if you forget to save your work. Vote up this great idea if you might need a little reminder every once in a while.