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Salesforce Certified Administrator | Seeking Volunteer Opportunity 

Hello Trailblazer Community! 

My name is Tara, and I’m a Salesforce Certified Administrator and Double Star Ranger on Trailhead, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

I’m looking for an opportunity to volunteer my Salesforce skills with a nonprofit organization. My goal is to contribute to a meaningful organization while gaining practical experience working with Salesforce in a real-world environment. 

Through my Salesforce learning and hands-on projects, I have developed skills in Salesforce Administration, Security & Access Management, Data Management, Data Import/Export, Flow, Reports & Dashboards, and I also have knowledge of Lightning Web Components (LWC). 

One of my main projects is the Student Success Management Portal, where I have applied Salesforce concepts to a practical student-support scenario. 

In addition to Salesforce, I bring a strong background in education and administration, including experience as an Admissions Coordinator and many years of teaching experience. I enjoy organizing information, solving problems, supporting people, and learning new technology. 

I’m especially interested in helping a nonprofit with Salesforce administration, data organization, reporting, automation, documentation, or user support. I’m open to starting with a small project and growing from there. 

If you know of a nonprofit organization that could use a motivated Salesforce Administrator volunteer, I would be very grateful for a connection or referral. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I’m looking forward to connecting with other Trailblazers and finding an opportunity where I can contribute and continue learning. 

Tara Mohammed 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada 

🌟 Salesforce Certified Administrator Looking for Volunteer Opportunities

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m a Salesforce Certified Administrator (ADM-201) based in Ontario, Canada, currently looking for a volunteer opportunity with a nonprofit or organization where I can gain hands-on experience working with a live Salesforce environment.

I have hands-on experience with:

• Salesforce user management, profiles, roles & permission sets 

• Security, OWD, sharing rules & field-level security 

• Custom objects, fields, relationships & page layouts 

• Validation Rules & Formula Fields 

• Flow Builder & Approval Processes 

• Reports & Dashboards 

• Data Loader & Data Import Wizard 

• Data quality and data management 

• Lightning Experience

I also have Salesforce Administrator internship experience and have worked on Salesforce projects involving automation, security, reporting, and data management.

I would be happy to volunteer my time to help with Salesforce administration, configuration, data cleanup, reporting, automation, documentation, or user support.

If your nonprofit or organization needs Salesforce support, or if you know of a volunteer opportunity, I would really appreciate a connection or referral.

Thank you! 🙏

  #Nonprofits #CRM #Volunteer Opportunities

👋 Hey everyone! 

Excited to share a free upcoming webinar that might be relevant to this community: 

📅 June 25, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET 

If your teams are dealing with conflicting reports, duplicate records, or just don't fully trust the data in your org — this one's for you. 

Andrii will walk through: 

✅ What a Single Source of Truth actually means (and what it doesn't) 

✅ Common mistakes with integrations and data ownership 

✅ A real nonprofit case study with practical takeaways 

✅ A 5-step framework you can apply to your own Salesforce environment 

🔗 Register here:

Feel free to share with anyone in your org who works with Salesforce data, integrations, or reporting. Hope to see you there! 🙌 

AMA in REAL LIFE - Continued....

Sarah Bonthuis: Q: We implemented pardot about a year and a half ago and ever since then we've been having conversations and fighting this idea that we picked the wrong platform because our different teams ant to email different email addresses, someone who gets books from us OR they could be an exec and want to use different emails. We've had so many convos about this issue across all different platforms and highlight the gains but its a perception issue, but also whats a real, solid way to make something happen without having two different data bases, or ex keep MailChimp for one off emails... ANY ADVICE! 

• A: Chris - there was a product called Common Ground where you could email any address field in the org but this was killed by Blackbaud. Pardots connecter has lots of restrictions, its not the most powerful salesforce tool.
• A: Toby - I'll answer part of the question - something thats been good about Pardot is the introduction of the marketing on core, the next products, theres a lot of inoperability thats freed up lots of options there, talk to a marketing cloud professional who can help you navigate this, there are more options now then there were a few years ago.
• Comment - is there any tool that doesn't consider email a unique identify? Not that we know of. most consider 1 person = 1 email. 
• A: Emma - can you pull in alternate email - 
• Overall Sarah - this is not your issue this is a fundamental email issue.

Q: Samuel from Atlanta: about 3rd party tools for specific agentic AI use cases - without starting with Agentforce - are there 3rd party tools that you recommend that we can start building with. 

• A: Chris - when folks start talking about AI... I want to triage the question. How are you using AI? Ex. HR vs. Sales vs Chatbot - what is your use case? IF you are an org that just wants to start with AI, don't just add a chatbot at the bottom right corner of your website. Think about REALLY SMALL use cases, where the risk of the data being wrong is low. For example: use case where someones job was googling people to ask for money, can use AI for this. If its something you can do on the core platform WITHOUT AI, start without, then think where are the places where is there unstructured data where you could bring value. How do you pull this data into business processes. 
• A: Toby - missed opportunity - is to get this in the hands of the people to grow familiarity - so when you ask about 3rd party apps, think about agents in other apps and ISV products, I think this is a great place to learn from because they are looking at discrete use cases and innovating rapidly. You have this AI hammer you want to use, what is your nail? Think about what you want/need to use AI for and build comfort and familiarity.

Q: Climate Lead: from a total AI newbie - our org is at the very beginning of our AI journey. Were getting the question: how could we connect AI to Salesforce. Ex connecting to google drive, I want to summarize engagement with prospects. or tell me all the people who are interested in horses within this range of addresses who are the most influential people to come to an event, kind of examples. Went to their AI with the summarizing question - AE said they would use Slackbot for that. IF we let employees do that, what are the risks? Slackbot or other tools? Gemini access to Salesforce? Or are there better ways?

• A: Toby - no. But, when you asked your AE... I kew the answer you'd get. Folks using Slackbot in an integrated system is blown away by that. That's a place to explore and get comfortable with. 
• A: Chris - yes, Slackbot is cool and impressive. The #1 biggest thing - lots of tools connecting chatgpt to org, the reason that people use Agentforce is because there is no safe way to send that data without having the tooling between the data and the agent, thats what you're paying for. You can ask Agentforce to use gemini behind the scense.
• A: Laura - would ask Claude to answer this for me! I use Claude for METADATA, NOT DATA. 
• Follow-up Q: should we be concerned with data of Slackbox? 
• A: Chris - I would feel more comfortable using Slackbot vs others.

A big thank you again to our panellists! We hope to do this again some time IN REAL LIFE! 

#nonprofits #askmeanything

Join Salesforce Trailblazers from around #Greater Los Angeles next week as we toast to 2025’s wins 🍾 AND kick off 2026 together! 

🎊  

Enjoy an evening of:

• Bowling fun (includes rental shoes & bowling balls)  🎳 
• Networking & reconnecting 🤝
• Prizes & plenty of swag 🏆
• Food, drinks, and festive cheer 🍹**

** Non-alcoholic drinks ONLY will be provided! (Cocktails must be self-funded!) ** 

This special celebration is co-hosted by the @Nonprofit User Group, Los Angeles, US and @Architect Group, Los Angeles, US, and sponsored by Proton Text and Investigo.

Let’s connect, celebrate our community, and start the new year inspired! ✨ 

(NOTE: Space is limited so if you RSVP and later determine you cannot make it, please Un-RSVP to make room for someone else!)

🎟️ REGISTER HERE >> https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-salesforce-architect-group-los-angeles-united-states-presents-los-angeles-trailblazers-new-year-party/cohost-salesforce-architect-group-los-angeles-united-states/

@Laura Derby@Ross Burton @Pat McClellan @Sum-Sum Chan @Lizzy Roberts @Natalie Larino @Cori O'Brien@Bo McSwine #Nonprofit #Nonprofits #TrailblazerCommunity #Trailblazers #Trailblazer #Trailblazer Community Groups #Trailblazer Community Impact #Trailblazer Community Group Meeting #Trailblazer Community User Group

🌱 We’re hiring. Come grow with us. 🌱 

At OneTenth Consulting, we believe technology should serve people, not the other way around. We partner with #nonprofits #nonprofits#nonprofits to advance their missions through thoughtful, responsible, and equity-centered solutions grounded in people, process, and technology. 

As our work continues to grow, we’re excited to expand our team with experienced  #Salesforce consultants in the nonprofit space. If you’re drawn to work rooted in empathy, partnership, and purpose, you might be a great fit. 

✨ What we're looking for 

• Full-time candidates only - no agencies, part-time, or contractors (at this time) 

• Senior Salesforce Consultants with at least 5–7 years of implementation experience. Must have strong Nonprofit Cloud experience

• Folks who care deeply about responsible technology and equity 

• People who value collaboration, learning, and impact over hustle culture (See the full job descriptions here: https://lnkd.in/eTw66rMX) 

✨ What we offer 

• Full-time roles with medical, dental, vision, PTO, and VTO 

• A supportive, human-centered team that genuinely cares about the work and each other 

If this resonates, we’d love to hear from you. Please send a resume, and anything else you’d like to share, to info@onetenth.consulting. 

To learn more about who we are and how we work, visit www.onetenth.consulting 💙