MindShare Meetup Topic: Fundraising

Date / Time: 11/8/2017 9:00am Pacific

Facilitator/s: @John Levis @Karen Uffelman 

Attendees: @Kim Strauss from SmileTrain and @Lindsay Henry from Allegheny College and @Barbara Christensen 

Question / Subtopic / Discussion Notes: 

• How are customers achieving success with the solutions available in the market?
  • Discussed there is no one solution that works for all customers and that innovation is happening across the ecosystem with Salesforce.org and partners
  • Discussed the number of Advancement options available in the ecosystem today and those that will come in the future
  • Discussed the value of working with partners to manage the organizational change leading to selection of systems that support Advancement fundraising
• How are customers solving large data volume issues?
  • There's no one answer to this today, but solutions are evolving
  • Recommend leveraging Large Data Volume Best Practices: https://resources.docs.salesforce.com/sfdc/pdf/salesforce_large_data_volumes_bp.pdf