An amazing amount of community engagement took place this past week, as the NPSP Day West Coast swing was in full effect, sweeping through Portland and San Francisco. Both events saw a growing number of attendees, with NPSP Day San Francisco nearly doubling since last year!

This week, I'm putting the captain's hat in storage, and donning the Goat Farm Foundation cap as we head into Dreamforce. There's a huge world of non-profit technology that could use your brainpower to find and fill gaps in our ecosystem. We're looking to wrangle some of that goodness together at Dreamforce on Tuesday, Nov 7 at 2:30pm at Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade. Come join us!

If you're heading to Dreamforce, I'd be excited to meet you! Just reply to this email, and let's connect. For now, sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's pour of Salesforce knowledge.

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I'm somewhere over Wyoming right now. Maybe that's Nebraska. I'm not sure, I can't see the lines from the map right now because the ground is dark. Anyway, I'm en route to NPSP Day Portland in the middle of a three-stop NPSP Day tour, culminating in a burrito-fest at NPSP Day San Francisco on Thursday.

I'm sure we'll talk about Salesforce in San Francisco, but man, the burritos!

This crew below came together last week for the first NPSP Day Chicago (they held strong the day after that last Cubs game), where we had a chance to dive deep into pretty much everything from grants (shoutout to the community members working on that!) to data importing.

As I reach up for another coffee (bing!), I give you another week of Salesforce knowledge. No turbulence ahead, you're free to move about the PUB. Enjoy!

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Before Dreamforce last year, a small group of non-profiteers met in Marin to imagine a new era in non-profit technology. We believed that there could be a new way to organize community for the types of projects that might get overlooked because their constituencies were too small, or their use cases too...edgy.

I mean, look at Justin in this photo. It was imagination time in overdrive.

After a year of discussion, interspersed with periods of navel gazing (i.e. doing our full-time jobs), we've come to the realization that our idea has an opportunity to change the way individuals are empowered to find and fill gaps in the non-profit technology ecosystem.

So here we go. On Tuesday, Nov 7 at 2:30pm during Dreamforce, join the founding farmers of the Goat Farm Foundation at Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade to learn how we all can roll-up our sleeves to build non-profit tech solutions in a totally new way. Want to see just how crazy these ideas are? Check our our new public mailing list and read my concept paper for a distributed autonomous organization that empowers folks like yourself to both contribute and have a direct say in the future of the organization.

Now that you're either fired up or thoroughly confused, grab a drink of your choosing, and saunter through this week's PUB Crawl!

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Sometimes, Salesforce and non-profit technology can seem so vast and confusing, the best way to sum up your feelings might look something like this photo from NPSP Day Washington DC.

The good news is that there's a large, open source community ready to share knowledge with you in a variety of ways. I'm gearing up for three NPSP Days in six days, where raw community knowledge comes together in-person. Online, our community has contributors around the world delivering code and documentation to help us all better understand how to use these tools for our organizations' needs.

With Dreamforce only a few weeks away, it's time to gather together and share new ways we can all contribute to our community's success. So if you're going to Dreamforce, hit that reply button and let me know. I've got some fun in store for my PUB Crawl friends at Dreamforce.

Until then, here's your well of knowledge for the week!

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This weekend, I was looking up from the base of the final climb up Yosemite's Half Dome and thought to myself, "this is probably pretty stupid". I geared up with a pair of gloves, and for 20 minutes, I was forced, by sheer gravity, to stop thinking about Salesforce best practices for handling accrual accounting and focus on not sliding off the granite.

When I reached the top, and finished kissing the ground, I had a chance to soak in the view from the rooftop of the valley. It was amazing, and it didn't require any Internet connection to make it happen (I checked).

We're living in this always-connected, cloud-run world, and sometimes, we miss the beauty around us. So, while you're diving into the knowledge sharing from the community this week, think about taking that small break your mind needs to recharge and refocus. If you're heading to Dreamforce in a few weeks, you'll need all the defragmented brain storage you can get.

Let's dive in, shall we?

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