We're pleased to announce that recurring donations made to an organization through Soapbox Donations now automatically post subsequent monthly payments from the payment processor to Soapbox. What's more, these monthly payments are then posted to Salesforce for organizations who have enabled Salesforce integration. Updates to Salesforce support both the standard Enterprise Edition as well as the Nonprofit Success Pack used by thousands of organizations worldwide.

December is the undisputed champ of the fundraising year. The warm and fuzzy feeling of the holiday season combined with the stone-cold reality of the close of the tax year offer compelling incentives for people to open their wallets before Baby New Year arrives. No wonder nearly ⅓ of annual giving is done in that single month with a whopping 11% in just the last three days alone.¹

But December is over. The ball has dropped. The confetti swept. And, while the 2016 fundraising season is behind us, you still need to raise money to fund your mission, regardless of what month it says on your calendar. But how do you tackle the donation doldrums of January and beyond, and make any day a good day to donate to your organization?

Here are five key tips for successful year-round fundraising that you can act on now:

Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack Version 3.85 brought a packed harvest of improvements, from deep cloning of Engagement Plan templates to friendlier NPSP error emails to enhanced Custom Household Naming to more graceful handling of errors with the NPSP Data Importer and Opportunity Naming:

With Version 3.84, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Success Pack gets friendlier and more helpful with its error messages triggered by validation rules or required fields. If only life were that friendly and helpful:

With Version 3.83, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Success Pack falls more in line with standard Salesforce functionality in how it deals with error handling and scheduled batches: