It's funny how life can change so quickly in just 24 hours. After not taking a sick day since high school, soon after sending last week's PUB Crawl I found myself checking my temperature every hour for days. Worse, this all happened hours before my flights to NPSP Day Cape Town.

Luckily, our awesome community members Sam Vos and Annakie Gammon stepped up and ran a fantastic NPSP Day for the South African community while I was stuck at home!

So while I continue down the road to recovery, join me as I slowly lift an effervescent glass of vitamin infused water and toast Sam and Annakie. Now, let's see what happened last week while I was out of commission.

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After a full week away from the friendly confines of the Soapbox Engage offices, it was nice to spend the week back in DC. Best yet, it was a chance for me to attend our local non-profit user group meeting while prepping for days of Nandos eating later this week (thanks Salesforce for the user group food!).

As I get ready to prepare myself for back-to-back redeye flights en route to our second NPSP Day Cape Town later this week, allow me to get out of the way and deliver this week's round of knowledge.

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It's been a whirlwind of a week, with events like fourth annual NPSP Day Portland, my 15th Nonprofit Technology Conference, and an awesome Amplify party. Phew. Before heading to Africa for our second NPSP Day on the continent, I'm gathering thoughts after seeing some great community knowledge.

For those of you in the Pacific Northwest that joined us for all the fun, thanks for sharing your time and ideas! For everyone else, here's a little snippet of that community knowledge, packed into this week's PUB Crawl.

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I don't know about you, but it certainly seems to me that March is keeping up with its reputation of coming in like a lion.

In the mix of everything March has brought to my doorstep, I've just landed in Portland, home of a trifecta of back-to-back-to-back Salesforce and non-profit community events. Tomorrow, I'll kick-off the 2019 NPSP Day tour, bringing together community members for the fourth year in a row in Portland!

Meanwhile, there's a lot of great content that's been produced by the community during the past week. So while you ponder how March will exit this year, grab the perfect knowledge pairing beverage of your choosing, and pull up a stool to the PUB Crawl.

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