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Great Posts from the Salesforce Power of Us Hub

1. Address behavior tips for the NPSPv3
   Donna Whitig (BackOffice Thinking)

   This is one of those amazing times when a community expert dives deep and shares what she's found in the NPSP. If you've ever found yourself lost in the sea of address management options in the NPSP, here's your compass.

2. When to use a New Object versus Multiple Record Types?
   Charles Cummings (National Geographic Society)

   The epic battle of "test and go with what people like most" versus "there is one right way to do it" continues. Grab some popcorn, lend a thought, and help Charles and others determine the best approach to this tricky situation.

3. Employees of Foundations having a HHA?
   Emily Rose Waggoner (Mind Builders Creative Arts Co)

   When your donors are actually employees of grant-making organizations, should they have households? Also, if a tree falls in the forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Those questions (okay, just the first) answered here!

4. NPSP Advisory Board Dec 13, 2016 meeting minutes
   Katie McFadden (Swift River Consulting)

   Before the new year bells rang, the NPSP Advisory board was able to sneak in one more meeting to discuss the addition of a leap second to 2016 (that's totally within our jurisdiction), renaming the NPSP to "Judi-bot v4". Or did we? I guess you'll have to read to know!

5. Helping the NPSP support new languages
   Peiwen Chung (Fun Travel)

   Want to help a software project speak a new language? Here's an example of the opportunity for the NPSP to go beyond its Roman alphabet roots.

6. NPSP v3.87 released
   Chris Polcyn (Salesforce.org)

   While much of the world was getting ready to wind down 2016, the NPSP development smashed 10 bugs to round out the year with a cleaner, happier NPSP.

7. Showing the GAU on the opportunities listing
   Dawn Blaney (Hill-Murray School)

   Seems like it should be easy to show a page of opportunities with all their associated general allocation units displayed, right? I also thought snowboarding would be a lot easier than skiing with one board instead of two skis this holiday break!

Great Events for the Salesforce Nonprofit Community

1. Hub Office Hours - Fri, Jan 6 @ 12pm ET
   Caroline Renard (Technology Interpreter for Arts Groups)

   Caroline facilitated a crew of 46 experts during 2016 to guide our community to Salesforce awesomeness. It's fantastic to see this community-led effort reach such success. Congrats Caroline and friends! Now, let's start 2017 off right this Friday with a general Q&A session, shall we?

Great Ideas for Nonprofits Using Salesforce

1. Allow setting order of fields on contact merge
   Michael Kolodner (Spark Program)

   Data clean-up and deduping is already about as fun as shoveling the snow off your Nor'easter hit sidewalk. Let's make this a bit easier with this idea for Contact merging.