Non-Profit Resources at Dreamforce 13
Mobile & Social Applications
Accessing the Salesforce platform via mobile application has become easier to use and literally puts Salesforce at a user’s fingertips wherever he or she is. Hear how non-profit organizations are utilizing social and mobile applications to support their programs and services.
- Going Mobile - Giving Your Organization What It Wants Everywhere - Monday @ 10am & Tuesday @ 12:30pm
- Salesforce Foundation Kickoff -The Connected Non-Profit - Monday @ 10:30am
Fundraising & Donation Management
Fundraising and Donation management is a critical component to nonprofit success. Learn how organizations are using Salesforce to support fundraising efforts and standardizing the donation cycle, managing members, donors and events.
- Fundraising with Salesforce: Live Demo - Monday @ 4:30pm
- Managing Complex Member and Donor Relationships on Salesforce - Wednesday @ 1:30pm
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The UN World Food Programme and Managing Donations that Feed the World - Wednesday @ 2:30pm
Maximizing Salesforce (Start ups/Small Businesses)
If you are a startup or small business and want to hear ways that Salesforce can help grow your company or increase the efficiency of your current processes, check out these sessions. These non-profits will share what made them successful and how they used Salesforce to reach their goals. Also, see what top AppExhange applications have proven to be a great addition to non-profit organizations.
- Data, Scale, & Social Change: Powering Room to Read to Change the World - Tuesday @ 4pm
- The Small and Mighty Salesforce Organization - Wednesday @ 10:30am
- AppExchange for Free: 10 Apps for $0 - Wednesday @ 9:30am
- Change.org is Rockin’ Work.com - Wednesday @ 12pm
- AppExchange Speed Dating: 20 Hot Apps You Might Fall in Love With - Wednesday @ 1pm
Salesforce Administrator Support & Managing Data
As an administrator of Salesforce at a non-profit organization, you may be facing the implementation of much needed processes and operations with very limited resources and competing priorities. There will be sessions at Salesforce that will provide tips on how to approach the work and better maximize the capabilities of Salesforce so you’re able to focus on other priorities. Also, learn specific techniques to help with managing and migrating your data.
- So you're a nonprofit Salesforce Admin, now what? - Tuesday @ 4:30pm
- Fifteen Things to Consider Before Your Next Data Migration - Tuesday @ 4:45pm
- Salesforce Magic for the Everyday Admin - Wednesday @ 1pm
- Clean Data is Happy Data - Wednesday @ 3pm
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Destination: Data Town - A (Fun) Path to Better Data Quality - Wednesday @ 4pm
Connecting with Other Non-Profits
Dreamforce provides opportunities to not only meet up with other non-profits but opportunities to also connect directly with nonprofits in your same field. These are casual settings that provide a forum for everyone to mingle, share best practices and ask questions.
- Birds of a Feather: Non-profit Sectors - Monday @ 12pm
- International Development non-profit Meet-Up - Monday @ 1pm
- K-12 Education and Ed Reform non-profit Meet-Up - Monday @ 5pm
- Environmental non-profit Meet-Up - Tuesday @ 3pm
- Human Services Meet-Up - Tuesday @ 4pm
- Arts & Culture Meet-Up - Wednesday @ 11am
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Faith Based Non-profit Meet-Up - Wednesday @ 3pm
Take full advantage of the many Non-profit focused sessions that Dreamforce is offering this year. If the session(s) listed above are full, check out the other sessions available for non-profits by filtering for Non-Profit on the Sessions page on the Dreamforce site. Be sure to bookmark your sessions and follow them in Chatter. You can also attend the many open Keynote sessions and visit the Cloud Expo where companies will be showing new Salesforce features and services. Regardless of what you attend, you will definitely walk away with tips, tricks, best practices, techniques that you can begin to implement at your organization.
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