A Bridge to the Future
Summary
The article discusses the launch of the Nonprofit Bridge sprint project, aimed at creating a simpler, more accessible Salesforce CRM solution tailored for small nonprofits. It highlights challenges with current options like Nonprofit Cloud and NPSP, which are complex, aging, and anxiety-inducing for users due to maintenance uncertainties. The project focuses on building a modular, low-code, community-driven platform that eases adoption for nonprofits with limited Salesforce expertise. Salesforce professionals can engage with the initiative to shape a future-proof, user-friendly nonprofit CRM alternative on the Salesforce platform.
Takeaways
- Nonprofit Bridge aims to simplify Salesforce CRM adoption for small nonprofits.
- Current options like NPSP are old and may cause user anxiety about future support.
- Complexity of Industry Clouds and Person Accounts limit small nonprofits’ usability.
- Project values include community ownership, turnkey setup, and low-code design.
- Opportunity to volunteer and influence a future-proof nonprofit Salesforce solution.
I just got back from a Commons Community Sprint in Denver and my faith in the Salesforce community is refreshed and renewed. There’s a new sprint project in town and it’s got potential to be an important one, of a scale that the community hasn’t taken on since NPSP was first created. And I’m really proud that people—all of them new to sprinting, many new to the Salesforce community—took to this project enthusiastically, even knowing how big this task could be. I’m confident that as word gets out many more people (that weren’t in Denver) will also step up. Nonprofit Bridge This new project is nothing short of a community commitment to bring forth a choice for organizations that want to use the power of the Salesforce platform to work with individual people but need simplicity, ease of setup and adoption, and low total cost of ownership. We need this choice to deal with some uncomfortable realities: The Industry Clouds and Person Accounts are complicated.