Out of the box, the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) offers nonprofits a powerful, scalable, and customizable platform for successful fundraising. By design, the 360-degree view it provides a nonprofit of their constituents and donors enhances an organization's fundraising efforts simply by adopting Salesforce.

What is more, a nonprofit can further optimize the Nonprofit Success Pack for fundraising by leveraging existing optional functionality and adding in some customized elements of their own. Here are our top ideas for optimizing your organization's Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack instance for your fundraising efforts:

A few days out of the office can seem like an eternity sometimes. I was greeted this morning by a whole new floor opening in our coworking space in Washington DC, and happened to immediately come across the following familiar logo.

Nice to see that it's right near the coffee machine, helping all those playing a few games of Ms Pac-Man into the late evening hours can really burn the midnight oil while also building Process Builder flows. To help us celebrate our Salesforce friends joining us with new office space in our building, a toast with your favorite beverage, and another round of knowledge here at the PUB Crawl.

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For those of you who are young-at-heart enough to remember, sports broadcast in the US would pause once during a game for "station identification". To be honest, I really don't know why that happened, but it's ingrained somewhere in the recesses of my brain along with random Oakland A's baseball statistics from the late 1980s.

I figured, after writing, oh, let's say 177 weeks in a row, that maybe it's a good time to do a little station identification for ourselves. Plus, I did have two conversations last week where someone said, "...and I didn't even realize you were the same guy that wrote the PUB Crawl."

For those of you who don't know, between PUB Crawl newsletters, NPSP Days, burritos, and various airports, I live a second life as a member of the Soapbox Engage team. We're the folks that think you shouldn't have to raise money to afford fundraising software, and who believe every effort we make as a community together moves the needle in the right direction of social justice and a better world.

So, if you feel like you should be getting more from your online donation, event registration, and advocacy software, I happen to know a team of penguins that would be excited to lend a hand...and maybe put a smile on your face.

Alright, that's enough of a commercial break for 3.5 years. Let's return you to your regularly scheduled program already in progress. Saddle up to the bar, and enjoy a fresh round of knowledge from your Salesforce community friends!

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Sometimes, working within a product as complex as Salesforce can feel like me walking through what was a week of blizzard-like conditions in the mountains (and yes, of course I did multiple whale dives into the 7 feet of powder that dropped in 72 hours).

Luckily, you're never too far from experts that can point you in the right direction in the Salesforce non-profit world...and friends making guacamole in my world. Wherever you are this week, get cozy with another round of Salesforce knowledge!

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Every once in while, it seems like a good idea to push yourself just a bit outside of your comfort zone. It's especially helpful, though, to do it when you have a massive support cushion to fall into just in case you make a wrong turn. That's pretty much what I tried this weekend, and I'm happy to say that when there's 3 feet of overnight snow, I was less likely to injure myself on the ski slopes and more likely to wear a few pounds of fresh snow on the way down.

So while I tried to dry off in front of a fire, I had a chance to dive into the Power of Us Hub and curate some awesome content from the community. Enjoy this week's PUB Crawl!

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