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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub
- New NPC Certification Exam
Kristin Dorage (Salesforce)The new Salesforce Certified Nonprofit Cloud Consultant (NPC) exam is here! This new exam tests on the NPC product built into the core of Salesforce, and it went live alongside the existing certification exam, which tests on the nonprofit managed packages. More details here!
- How To Build a State Processing Engine
Michael Kolodner (Kolodner.com LLC)In this article, Michael Kolodner walks through how he built a flow-based state processing engine using platform events. It allows for high volume asynchronous processing of records that will come from an integration. Don't worry— it looks more complicated than it is!
- Articles to Improve Your Salesforce Knowledge
Rakesh Gupta (Salesforce MVP)Check out the following articles to improve your Salesforce knowledge:
- Provide Search Engines with Fresh Content Snapshots for Experience Cloud Sites
- Simplify Salesforce User Access Management with User Access Policies
- Pass Data From Lightning Web Component to Screen Flow
- Proactive Salesforce Monitoring: Periodically Checking if Salesforce is Down with the Salesforce Trust API
- The Power of Enhanced Usage Metrics in Optimizing Platform Event Allocation
- TrailblazerDX 2025 Highlights
Andy Engin Utkan (BRDPro Consulting)Check out these two articles for some highlights from TDX 2025! The first is an overview of some significant advancements in the Agentforce platform, including the launch of Agentforce 2dx. The second is a guide on how to get your AI-powered enhanced developer org with Agentforce and Data Cloud.
Great Events
- Effective Online Advocacy with Soapbox Engage - Mar 27
Katie Ciszek (Soapbox Engage)Tune in to this webinar on 3/27 to learn how the Salesforce-integrated Soapbox Engage Actions app and Petitions app can support your advocacy efforts and amplify the voices of your organization and constituents.
- Upcoming Salesforce Events for March and April
Lizzy Roberts (Salesforce.org)Community Sprints, Dreamin events, AMAs, webinars, workshops, and more— here's what's coming up for this month and beyond with Salesforce!
- NPSP Day Chicago - May 14
Katie Ciszek (Soapbox Engage)NPSP Day is heading back to Chicago in 2025! Hosted by Soapbox Engage and Idlewild Partners, this day-long event is designed specifically for the Salesforce nonprofit community. It’s a unique opportunity to:
- Get hands-on training and experience with the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP)
- Connect with fellow nonprofit professionals
- Share and gain insights to elevate your use of Salesforce
Head to this post for more details and registration!
Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce
- Allow External Users to See All Program and Benefit Object Fields in Reports
David Norman (Salesforce)Here's an idea to allow external users to view all Program and Benefit object fields in reports while also enabling them to create and edit reports in Experience Cloud for Nonprofits. Currently, setting object sharing to anything other than Read Only restricts access to key fields, requiring workarounds like formula fields.
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