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Few things warm my heart more than drinking Dunkin Donuts coffee on a beautiful Boston morning and hearing the sound of stickies being slapped on whiteboards with great ideas for open source projects.

A rather odd pairing? I call it "fully caffeinated community collaboration" at its best. With the glow of the NPSP Sprint lighting the way to Dreamforce, grab a cup of your favorite energy drink, get ready for some community knowledge sharing, and get ready for the PUB Crawl!

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Live from the NPSP community sprint in Boston, it's the PUB Crawl! As the first day wraps up, I'll keep the notes scribbling while drinking one Dunkin Donuts coffee after another for a great round-up next week. For now, enjoy last week's shared knowledge!

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Some people have called our NPSP Release Notes Rundown videos "incredible" (me), "thrilling" (me), and even "the greatest thing to hit the small screen since Homestar Runner" (me, and you should definitely look that up).

After a brief hiatus, the 60-second videos that give you the highlights of every NPSP release are back with episode v3.79! So grab a 5-kernel bag of popcorn and a cup of your favorite Monday morning beverage, and let's start your week right, shall we?

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After a brief personal hiatus, the Release Notes Rundown is back to share the highlights of the 3.79 release of the Nonprofit Starter Pack with its support for translated Record Types. Plus cuteness. Oh so much cuteness:

Getting a chance to bring together members of our community is always great, which is why my jet-lagged face still holds a late night smile after a fantastic NPSP Day Portland on Friday. Together, we have so much to share, and we're excited to announce the newest city on the NPSP Day tour: San Francisco!

Grab your morning beverage and some sourdough toast and join me for this week's PUB Crawl.

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Coffee and microbrew isn't the only thing bubbling up in Portland these days.

On Friday, we were excited to bring together the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP) community of Portland together for the inaugural NPSP Day Portland. This was an opportunity for community members to spend the day sharing best practices, learning from leading practitioners and developers, and networking. Throughout the day, we tackled a wide-ranging set of items, including:

This is the final post in our #GivingTuesday series, with tips to personalize your follow up with donors. Check out the third post in the series on activating your allies. Save the date: July 28th we will close out the series with a live webinar. Reserve your spot now!

This is the third post in our #GivingTuesday series, with ideas to activate your community Check out the second post in the series on crafting your message. Save the date: July 28th we will close out the series with a live webinar. Reserve your spot now!

With the latest update to Soapbox Donations, you can collect exactly the data you want from your donors using simple tools that open up powerful possiblities. Add virtually any Salesforce Lead field of you wish to a secure Soapbox Donations form easily and quickly. Define default values. Set hidden values to pass to the Lead record. Easily format the display of fields with preset keywords.

Interested in learning more? Register for our free webinar this Thursday at 1 pm ET for details as well as handy use cases covering membership application forms, newsletter sign ups, and more!

This is the second post in our #GivingTuesday series, sharing some tried and true tips on creating and testing your call to action.  Check out the first post in the series on planning. Save the date: July 28th we will close out the series with a live webinar. Reserve your spot now!

Have you come to dread Thanksgiving dinner because it’s always somewhere between your first and second helping of mashed potatoes that you realize you forgot to plan for #GivingTuesday? Even with the massive movement behind the global day of giving which generated more than $116 million for charities in 2015 alone, it can still can sneak up on busy nonprofit professionals. No need to panic or risk turkey day stress-induced indigestion, though! You’ve got time before this year’s November 29th big event and we are here to hand you a few tools to build success!

With Release 3.75, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Starter Pack adds NPSP Opportunity fields to field sets and tweaks the way the magic word REPLACE is used for Account Name updates:

We love working with good people to serve the nonprofit sector and, in terms of good people, it's hard to top the good folks at Redpath Consulting Group. The team at Redpath are wise in the ways of Salesforce.com, skilled at serving nonprofits, and have long hosted our mascot, Phil Penn Gwynn, in their Minneapolis offices. Given all this, we couldn't be happier to welcome them as the latest Soapbox Engage Partner.

Some partnerships are just destined to be. We couldn't feel more strongly about our latest as we warmly welcome iATS Payments, a leading provider of payment processing services for nonprofit organizations, into the Soapbox Engage family. Now, nonprofits can elect to use iATS for the seamless processing of online donations and event registrations with Soapbox. What is more, they can choose to have data from each donation and registration saved to Salesforce in real-time.

With the latest release of Soapbox Actions, nonprofits can create powerful and persuasive online letter writing campaigns that target key decision makers and save supporter data and letter details straight to their Salesforce instance.

With Release 3.74, the Nonprofit Starter Pack improves its Spanish and broadens its professional aspirations:

There's something about the great outdoors that gives you the opportunity to think about big ideas. While my fellow Soapbox Engage teammates plan another year of innovations in the Sierra Nevada, I've pulled together some of the big ideas straight from our Power of Us Hub community from the past week. Grab a hiking stick and come join us at our warming hut of Salesforce knowledge. Coffee is on the house.

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With release 3.73, the Nonprofit Starter Pack learns Spanish thanks to a dedicated group of volunteer translators:

Ah, the joy of a warm spring day in an election season. At least that's what my Pacific Northwest friends have been telling me as multiple weeks of Seattle-like weather sweeps through the nation's capital. No worries for you, though, as that's just mean more coffee shop time for me to curate the largest PUB Crawl edition in the history of humanity!

Brace yourselves, friends. I'd recommend topping of your beverage before starting.

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With Mother's Day and Star Wars Day ("May the 4th be with you") both falling on the same week, I can understand if you were a bit preoccupied to keep up with all the happenings of the Power of Us Hub. For a quick moment, set aside the flowers and the Chewbacca costume from your desk, and join us for some of the Salesforce knowledge you might have missed.

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