Soapbox Engage Blog

“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” An appropriate quote from the president in the background behind these awesome Salesforce non-profit rockstars at last week's NPSP Day Boston. Not only was it a fantastic day of networking and learning, but it marked the 30th NPSP Day in what's been an incredible movement building of our community.

To celebrate three weeks of NPSP Days in a row, thirty of them around the world, and ten years of the NPSP, I think I'm going to take my sailor's cap and Soapbox Engage penguin and head to a little vacation. When I come back, maybe I'll have a pretty epic announcement about an exciting capstone to this incredible year of knowledge sharing. Just maybe.

In the meantime, enjoy another round of knowledge, care of the community.

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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. NPSP Turns 10!
   Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)

   It seems like just yesterday when I was in a room with a bunch of folks in the San Bruno offices of Salesforce talking about the crazy idea of making a sales system work for the non-profit community. Happy 10th birthday, NPSP!

2. Anyone else using Sale Analytics?
   Nate Marsh (SCS Noonan Scholars)

   With "Einstein" on everything, it's easy to get lost. One community member has had some awesome results, even in the program tracking world, using custom Einstein Analytics datasets and dashboards. Check it out!

3. Fiscal year roll ups setting
   Bina Maheswari (San Diego Museum of Man)

   A quick public service announcement for those thinking about activating custom fiscal year in their Salesforce org. As someone said at NPSP Day Philadelphia, "noooooooooo!"

4. Example decision making tree?
   Kaitlin Frick (Friends of Waterfront Seattle)

   Hey project managers (I know there's lots of you reading this)! Do you have any insights on building decision trees for Salesforce build-outs?

5. Task vs Engagement Plan Task
   Ryan Beaver (San Francisco LGBT Community Center)

   Does Engagement Plan Task == Task? If you can solve this, can you please tell me what's up with Schrödinger's cat?

6. Local Nonprofit professional Development groups
   Chris Robinson (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)

   Fundraising tools are only useful if the fundraisers are successful in the fundraising skills. I think I broke the record of using "fundraising" in a sentence. More importantly, where can local community of these folks build up skills?

7. Include Screenshots in Power of Us Hub
   Robert L. Ott (Seed to Oaks)

   Let's make it a bit easier to understand the best practices to adding photos to the Power of Us Hub, shall we?

8. HUB Office Hours - Friday, October 26 @ 12pm ET
   Caroline Renard (Technology Interpreter for Arts Groups)

   Learn all about Profiles and Permission Sets this week with Salesforce superstars Sara Chieco, Heidi Norgaard, and TJ Warfield.

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. NPSP Day Chicago - November 8, 2018
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   The Windy City hosts its second NPSP Day!

2. NPSP Day Vancouver - November 15, 2018
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   We're heading back north to Canada again for the second event in Vancouver!

3. NPSP Day Phoenix - November 29, 2018
   Ryan Ozimek (Soapbox Engage)

   We're bringing the NPSP Day tour back to where it all started!

Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce

1. Add Rollups to Fields on Opportunity for Customizable Rollups
   Megan Himan (Brightstep Partners)

   Am I about to go into an infinite loop error by asking for a customizable rollup on an Opportunity to allow us to create a unique customizable rollup on an Account?