Hi everyone! After spending over 3 decades in higher education - including 8 years in the Salesforce ecosystem - I've created my own nonprofit called CAUSE: Center for Agency, Understanding, and Student Exploration. We support high school and postsecondary students through self-discovery and interest exploration leading them to meaningful careers through peer to peer community support and offer experiential learning opportunities. I know the importance of having a solid, scalable technology foundation, especially with the right data architecture, but as a startup I am still pursuing funding opportunities. I'm wondering if there are pro bono resources available to nonprofits to support some MVP development of Nonprofit Cloud (or possibly Education Cloud) and other products? Or, even aside from tech development, other types of resources which provide general planning and management support for nonprofits? I see a lot of options out there for accelerators, investments, etc. for tech startups, but not a lot for nonprofits. Thanks for any guidance, advice, resources, etc. anyone here is willing to provide!
@Kyla Farroll To be clearer and more direct in my answer to your post. After doing a few Education Cloud implementations, I am absolutely sure that doing ProBono in that solution is "prohibited" due to the amount and complexity of the work. Nowadays, as NonProfit Cloud is evolving, I would say, after several implementations too, that the same case applies. If your organization wants to do it right, properly, and following best practices with sound knowledge of the solutions, I would encourage you to secure or raise reasonable funds to support the implementations and not forget the maintenance "after implementations," as both solutions demand "real experience and knowledge of the solutions" (beyond Certifications). Anything else that differs advocates for a failed implementation of any of the solutions. Make the right decisions before kick off the project
