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I'm somewhere over Wyoming right now. Maybe that's Nebraska. I'm not sure, I can't see the lines from the map right now because the ground is dark. Anyway, I'm en route to NPSP Day Portland in the middle of a three-stop NPSP Day tour, culminating in a burrito-fest at NPSP Day San Francisco on Thursday.

I'm sure we'll talk about Salesforce in San Francisco, but man, the burritos!

This crew below came together last week for the first NPSP Day Chicago (they held strong the day after that last Cubs game), where we had a chance to dive deep into pretty much everything from grants (shoutout to the community members working on that!) to data importing.

As I reach up for another coffee (bing!), I give you another week of Salesforce knowledge. No turbulence ahead, you're free to move about the PUB. Enjoy!

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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. Expose a Salesforce Classic URL With Your Own Lightning Component (even if you don’t know any JavaScript)
   Michael Kolodner (Spark Program)

   The URL bridge between your Classic and Lightning world is available in a do-it-yourself kit! Your step-by-step guide to creating your very own Lightning Component to display Salesforce record IDs as a Classic-friendly URL.

2. Ask an Expert drop-in hours!
   Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)

   Imagine the HUB Office Hours coming to life at Dreamforce 2017. This is it. Also, there's some pretty awesome humans volunteering their time, so at least go to meet these superstars!

3. To HEDA or Not to HEDA that is the Continuing Ed question...
   Danielle Henriquez (Rutgers University)

   If you're in the continuing education world, and you're presented with the do-it-all-yourself or build-from-a-foundation ("should I use HEDA?"), I've got a fantastic post for you!

4. Little Nonprofit’s Adventures in Process Automation
   Scott Williams (Embrace Your Data LLC)

   Ready to take the default NPSP workflow for sending the email acknowledgement and transform it to allow you to use different templates based on your criteria? Dive in!

5. Any organizations willing to share some best practices and strategy around chapter management?
   Katie McFadden (Swift River Consulting)

   It can be tough enough to run one organization, imagining a world helping shepherd multiple organizations together. Wait, that's what many of you do for a living. You're all amazing people. Get together and chat!

6. One or Two households for spouses that give separately?
   Sally Levine (Aeon)

   When is a household donation not really a household donation?

7. Mailing Lists - Best Practices
   Heath Parks (Cincinnati Works)

   If you've got businesses and foundations in your sights for end-of-year fundraising, how the heck are you building your mailing lists to reach them?

8. DF17 Guidebook
   Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)

   Sometimes, one PDF is about all I can handle for Dreamforce. This is that PDF.

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. [WEBINAR] Win New Donors this End-of-Year Fundraising Season with Salesforce - October 26
   Tim Forbes (Soapbox Engage)

   While some of us will be gathering at NPSP Day SF, another crew will be virtually connecting to figure out plans to raise more money from new donors. Probably with a coffee in hand. Join us!

2. NPSP Day Portland - October 25
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   It's exciting to see returning names registered for Wednesday's gathering. See you there!

3. NPSP Day San Francisco - October 26
   Marisa Lopez (Presence Product Group)

   I'll be the guy with the coffee in one hand and a burrito in the other...with a penguin riding shotgun through the event.

4. HUB Office Hours - Fri, Oct 27 @ 12pm EST
   Caroline Renard (Technology Interpreter for Arts Groups)

   We'll all be gathering to discuss best practices for using Campaigns this week. Join all-star panelists Debra Van Zegeren, Megan Himan, and Michael Slawnik for the goodness.

Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce

1. Person account model
   Dan Howell (The Parenting Place)

   Listen, I'm not one to start an all-out fake food fight (I'd never throw real food), but I'm pretty sure that if someone yelled out this in the NPSP cafeteria, I'd want to be loaded up with bucket of fake mashed potatoes while fake food flew. What's your take?