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If you're at Dreamforce today and reading this email, STOP, look up, and don't walk into that street sign. Now that you're safely walking through Dreamforce, if you see me, say hi!

I spent the weekend alongside fellow founding farmers at the Goat Farm Foundation retreat in Marin, preparing for tomorrow's #goatlaunch at Yerba Buena Park Esplanade at 2:30pm. Don't worry, no goats will actually be launched, and trust me, it will be easy to find us.

We'll be announcing an entirely new way to bring together the best knowledge in our community and point it towards successful outcomes for the non-profit sector. In the meantime, grab yourself a tasty beverage, and enjoy this week's PUB Crawl.

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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. Volunteer Question, Best Practice/Suggestions
   Heath Parks (Cincinnati Works)

   It's useful to track all those good folks that volunteer in conjunction with the, let's call them, primary volunteer friends. How would you track all these folks in Salesforce?

2. Soft and hard credit quandry - what causes an opportunity to show up on a record?
   Amanda Styles (Literacy Action, Inc.)

   Soft credits are super helpful, but it can be confusing as to where the data ends up. Here's some guidance from the community.

3. Here are a few assets to help you get ready for Dreamforce
   Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)

   If you're wandering aimlessly through Salesforce right now, stop, read this, and then find a burrito.

4. All the topic-specific office hours!
   Barbara Christensen (Percolator Consulting)

   I wish there was a place where all HUB Office Hour recordings were just one click away. Oh, wait...it has its own YouTube channel. Netflix off. Learning on. Happy binge watching!

5. Release / change management process?
   Scott Williams (Embrace Your Data LLC)

   When you're building apps for Salesforce, and you've got dev orgs, staging orgs, testing orgs, production orgs, and more, things can get confusing. How do you formally document and manage your release cycles for Salesforce software you write?

6. Family Foundations?
   Jesse Twum-Boafo (Vera Solutions)

   We're on the lookout for any ideas/thoughts/approaches folks have used when reporting on households that give from their family foundations as well as their personal accounts.

7. Grant Package Overview
   Sarah Amin (North Peak)

   The community is building an awesome new grants functionality, and you can be a part of it! Learn more. Also, join folks in-person at Dreamforce on Tues at 9:30-10:30am, or Wed at 8-11am at the Salesforce.org Lounge.

8. Say Hello to the Trailblazer Community
   Michael Kolodner (Spark Program)

   The Success Community, or shall I say "Trailblazer Community", got a makeover. Get your national parks passes ready and mosey on over to the new era in community knowledge sharing in the Salesforce world.

9. Hub Heroes: November 2017
   Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)

   Major thanks to Marisa Lopez and Nash Zgonjanin for their contributions to our community!

10. Salesforce.org DevOps Tooling
    Jason Lantz (Salesforce.org)

    Want to learn more about Salesforce.org builds software for the community? Ready to have Jason Lantz school you on everything software build related? Here's your group, and your Red Bulls.

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. EMEA Office Hours - Tue, Nov 14 @ 3pm BST
   EMEA Office Hours (EMEA Office Hours)

   Get ready to have all your Salesforce burning questions answered at this month's EMEA Office Hours. For the community, by the community.

2. LATAM Hub Office Hours - mier, 15 de noviembre @ 12pm MEX
   LATAM Office Hours (LATAM Office Hours)

   Horario de LATAM la próxima semana. Prepárate para una sesión gran.

Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce

1. Offer choice for trials/new Power of Us applications
   Cheri Lovell (The Strategic Org)

   A pre-test that could help determine whether an organization should be using NPSP or regular Salesforce could be an awesome addition to the community!