051: NPSP And Non-Profit Development with Michael Smith

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael is a lead member of the technical staff over at Salesforce.org.  In this episode, Michael and I talk all about the Nonprofit Success Pack. We discuss its history, development cycle, and new features and how Salesforce.org manages to maintain new features as well as the diversity of size and shape of nonprofits.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael has been developing on the Salesforce Platform since the early days, so tune in to hear his stories of getting into the ecosystem and lessons learned over the years.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Michael got into the Salesforce ecosystem.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first thing he built on the Salesforce Platform.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What his time as a consultant looked like and words of advice for those going into consulting today.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Features of the Nonprofit Success Pack.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The distinction between a constituent and a customer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What nonprofits on the larger end of the spectrum look like.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How recurring donations work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the accounting sub-ledger is and how it works, including the new payment solution, Elevate.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Michael on Twitter:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/Force2b_Mike"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/Force2b_Mike</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Michael on LinkedIn:</strong> <a href="https://ww