
If your org has extra time to commit to Salesforce while working from home, this is the perfect time to put it to use for housekeeping of your Salesforce instance!
As a social change organization, making your supporters’ voices heard is an important part of what you do. Since shouts from a soapbox only travel 50 feet, it’s likely that you’re going to need a strategy to amplify their message. Giving out free megaphones might be out of your budget range; you’re going to need …
Too often nonprofits manage technology from one emergency to the next, on a tiny budget, so technology policies may never cross their minds. But written technology policies are worth it. They will help you clarify your organization's approach to tech, set expectations for staff, and handle staff growth and turnover.
This week, Percolator will be trekking to San Francisco to learn, share knowledge, and play at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual event. You’ll find us camping at the Salesforce.org Lodge to hear how you turn followers into champions, checking out tech and strategy sessions, and meeting with nonprofits about our engagement tracking app, StepUp. Want to meet up? …
When Dogwood Initiative needed to mobilize BC residents to reclaim decision making power over the air, land, and water they depend on, they turned to distributed organizing— motivating and empowering champion volunteers to lead and organize others. When they needed all the tools they rely on for distributed organizing to integrate instead of get in …
In a previous post, we talked about the qualities we look for in a good Salesforce integration: reliability, transparency, configurability, well-supported, and playing well with NPSP. But evaluating those qualities can be difficult. Even seemingly simple integrations are quite complex under the hood. Often, you won’t find problems until you’ve been using it for a …
I have a (possibly unhealthy) obsession with broadcast email platforms that integrate with Salesforce. I’m always searching for the email holy grail — the right balance of power, usability, and reliability. When I heard in September that Campaign Monitor was launching a new Salesforce integration, I had to take a look. I’ve always liked Campaign …
The vast ecosystem of 3rd-party integrations 1 is one of the big reasons so many nonprofits use Salesforce. There are integrations for everything from broadcast email and SMS messaging to online donations and advocacy. A good integration is incredibly valuable: it will put data at your fingertips, save you time, and help you make better decisions …