It is with great excitement that now, three years after Outbound Funds was created, one of the initial goals for the app will be achieved, Outbound Funds will transition out of Open Source Commons and become a Salesforce.org open source product! Though Outbound Funds will transition to new leadership, it will remain the free, open source, community-driven product that we all know and love😍.

Outbound Funds will now be positioned to serve the Salesforce ecosystem alongside existing open source products that the community trusts and relies on every day like NPSP, EDA, and PMM. Going forward Salesforce will oversee the development, support and roadmap for Outbound Funds, in collaboration with a community advisory group. Outbound Funds users will soon have access to push updates, official Salesforce support, and documentation within the Power of Us Hub Knowledge tab. The package will not change so existing users will not need to transition to a new package. Users on version 1.15 or above will be set up to receive push updates. Anyone on previous versions will need to upgrade to 1.15 to do so.

Together with Salesforce.org, we have a shared vision to expand the visibility of Outbound Funds and expose the amazing work happening within our Salesforce Community to an even larger audience. We know the accessibility and flexibility of the Outbound Funds product lends itself to being extended in numerous ways and we are excited to see what a dedicated team can do with the foundation we’ve built. 

From the team that has built Outbound Funds to date, this is not a goodbye. It’s a “see you soon”.  We’ll see you on vision calls. We’ll see you at Sprints. We’ll see you at keynotes. While the leadership may be changing, the team that has built Outbound Funds will continue to work alongside Salesforce.org to be the voice of the community and to partner with them as they support, enhance and add to the Outbound Funds product to take it to new and exciting places that a team of volunteers could only dream of.