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Pitfalls and Best Practices: How to Keep Your Salesforce Project From Being Doomed

By | CRM & Salesforce, Salesforce shortcuts and tips

Participants from our popular Salesforce Bootcamp for Nonprofits trainings will be familiar with an exercise we run called “Pitfalls and Best Practices.” In this exercise, we hand out sheets of paper to every participant, each piece with a different scenario on it. The students then must interpret the situation and use an anecdote to illustrate why it is or isn’t a good thing. We will often pass on particularly noteworthy stories at other Bootcamps, with names redacted of course!

A selection of these “Pitfalls and Best Practices” are offered below. So, you can either give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back, or shudder at the mistakes you have made (or maybe just barely avoided).

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Real Life Heroes: Shelter Music Boston

By | CRM & Salesforce
Last week we highlighted our client, Haymakers for Hope, and had so much fun doing it that we’ve decided to profile some more real life do-gooders. This week, we’ll take a look at our client, Shelter Music Boston. Shelter Music is just what it sounds like; a nonprofit dedicated to bringing world class music to homeless shelters in the Greater Boston area. As the people of Shelter Music put it, they are citizen artists working for social change – “Just as others work to shelter and feed homeless citizens, Shelter Music Boston feeds their souls.”

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Spotlight On Haymakers for Hope

By | CRM & Salesforce

Each and ehaymakers for hopevery one of our clients has a unique, inspiring story and mission. We know that these nonprofits are working hard to make the world a better place, that’s why we have decided to feature them here on our blog. This week, in the wake of our extremely exciting time at Belles of the Brawl, we’re featuring Haymakers for Hope. Haymakers for Hope is a wonderful organization whose mission is to raise money and awareness for cancer research. How do they do it? Boxing! Through multiple charity boxing events each year, Haymakers for Hope donates money to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in order to knockout cancer.

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