Insights, tips, and updates from the nonprofit & social impact community
Yuki Tanaka
Salesforce Implementation Specialist | Africa Digi... ·
4mo ago
Public
Volunteer call: Africa Digital Skills Foundation is looking for experienced Salesforce professionals (Admin, Developer, Consultant) to serve as online mentors for our 2026 scholarship cohort.
Time commitment: 2 hours/month via video call for 6 months.
What you give: career guidance, exam prep suppo...
Tom Hartley
Volunteer Coordinator | Community Food Bank Allian... ·
4mo ago
Public
Volunteer opportunity: Community Food Bank Alliance needs an extra 200 volunteer shift-fills for our holiday food drive season (Dec 15 – Jan 5).
We need help at food sorting stations, food drive collection points, and delivery coordination. All shifts are 3-4 hours. Training provided. Family-friend...
Volunteer post — calling all Salesforce Admins and Consultants:
Impact Tech Solutions is launching a free NPSP clinic for small nonprofits (budget under $500K). 2 hours of your time each month can transform how a small organization manages its donor data.
If you have NPSP experience and want to gi...
James Okonkwo
Advocacy Manager | Youth Futures Foundation | UNIC... ·
5mo ago
Public
We need more youth-led advocacy in the nonprofit sector, not just youth-serving programs.
Youth SERVING programs design FOR young people.
Youth-LED advocacy is designed BY young people.
At Youth Futures Foundation, our under-25 staff and fellows lead our policy research, design our campaigns, and ...
Pro tip for anyone training nonprofit staff on Salesforce:
Never start with "here is how Salesforce works."
Always start with "here is the specific task you do every day — let me show you how Salesforce makes it easier."
Abstract system tours create anxiety. Concrete task demonstrations create co...
Amara Diallo
Data Analyst | Nonprofit Impact Data | Salesforce ... ·
5mo ago
Public
Data literacy for nonprofit staff — the gap is real and costly.
I have worked with organizations where:
- Staff don't understand what a "clean record" means
- Program managers don't know how to read their own dashboards
- Leadership makes decisions from stale exports in Excel
Data tools (Salesforc...
Natasha Petrov
Salesforce Architect | Application Architect | Int... ·
5mo ago
Public
Multi-country Salesforce architecture for international NGOs is genuinely complex.
Key design questions to answer before any configuration:
🔷 One org or many? (Data sovereignty, org limits, complexity)
🔷 How does program data map across country contexts?
🔷 What language/currency/timezone requiremen...
Just went live with a volunteer self-registration portal built in Salesforce Experience Cloud for a food bank network — volunteers can now sign up for shifts, track their hours, and download their own service records for school and employment requirements.
Result: 60% reduction in staff time managi...
Carlos Mendez
Policy Director | Clean Water Access NGO | LATAM |... ·
5mo ago
Public
Water access policy update: Clean Water Access NGO's advocacy team secured a commitment from the Colombian government to include rural water access metrics in its National Development Plan reporting framework.
This is 4 years of coalition work, data-driven advocacy, and patient relationship buildin...
Building automated donor journey emails in Salesforce Marketing Cloud for a nonprofit for the first time is genuinely exciting.
A basic but powerful sequence:
1. First gift → Warm welcome + impact story (Day 0)
2. Gift receipt → Tax acknowledgment (Day 1, auto)
3. 30-day touchpoint → How your gift ...
Tom Hartley
Volunteer Coordinator | Community Food Bank Allian... ·
5mo ago
Public
Volunteer management truth: your volunteers are not free.
The time to recruit, onboard, train, schedule, and retain a volunteer has a real cost — staff time, materials, coordination overhead.
What makes volunteers worth it:
✅ The right role match
✅ A clear onboarding experience
✅ Consistent commun...
Yuki Tanaka
Salesforce Implementation Specialist | Africa Digi... ·
6mo ago
Public
Exciting update: Africa Digital Skills Foundation has awarded 200 Salesforce Admin training scholarships to aspiring tech professionals in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Senegal! 🌍
Applications were 12x oversubscribed. The demand for Salesforce skills in Africa is real and growing fast. We are building...
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