Soapbox Engage Blog

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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In this week's 3.72 Release Notes Rundown, a bug is squashed, the NPSP Settings gets some help for screen readers from community superstar, Snannon Hale, and, in a nod to the headlines, we acknowledge the shocking win the pundits never thought this unlikely candidate could pull off:

Now that the confetti is cleaned up after the Salesforce World Tour stop here in Washington DC, I'm finally able to find my way back to my keyboard. And just in time, because Dreamforce 16 planning is right around the corner. While you sip your coffee (that's what's in the coffee mug, right?) as you read the Summer 16 release notes, here's your fountain of knowledge for the week.

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Spring is in the air. Warmer temperatures. Sunnier skies. What better to do than grab your laptop, sit under a tree, and read up on some Salesforce knowledge for the week. I'll be right over with a refreshing beverage. Let's dive into the PUB Crawl!

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Did you know there's a group of users, consultants, and Salesforce.org employees working together to provide advice and guidance for the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP)? These folks represent and voice the needs of the NPSP community, and strive to build a more effective software solution for our ecosystem.

We're always looking for ways to make it easier for you to keep up with the latest in the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP). While our Release Notes Rundown videos are a great way to get a quick, concise view of each NPSP release, we wanted to dive into a bit more detail for folks that would like to learn more. Today, we're excited to share the first of what we hope to be a new podcast series of interviews highlighting the great things happening under the hood of the NPSP.

So without further ado, please enjoy Episode 1, where I have a chance to interview Mary Pustejovsky to learn what's in store for us in the latest NPSP v3.71 release and what is on the horizon for the NPSP!

The 3.71 release of the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Starter Pack saw a bug with matching gifts meet its match:

I'm about to hop on a plane back to the US after a fantastic open source software event. It reminded me of the uniqueness of our Nonprofit Starter Pack open source community, and the great opportunity we have to collaborate and grow our success together. It also reminded me that I'm thankful the PUB Crawl bar has an espresso machine behind the counter.

Grab a cup of cappuccino (double-shot for me), and let's catch up on our Salesforce non-profit knowledge together. Wheels up!

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Feeling like you shot a quadruple-bogey on the 12th hole of keeping up with all of the masterful goodness of the Power of Us Hub last week? Fear not! Consider us your second chance provider of the putt-putt variety to get in all the best.

No golf cart required. We’ll play caddy. Just grab your club and let’s head to the tee!

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Take about sixty seconds to hear the story of a bug and the Nonprofit Starter Pack community members who played exterminators for the benefit of nonprofits everywhere.

Whether your nonprofit has the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Starter Pack or not...no matter if you're using Salesforce for fundraising or event management or grant giving or member management or advocacy or program management or all of the above!...regardless if you're a Salesforce ninja or newbie...irrespective of what job title happens to be on that little business card of yours...there is one free resource you should know, love, and bookmark right now that will help you get the most out of Salesforce for your nonprofit: the Salesforce.org Power of Us Hub.