World Tour NYC Community Sprint
Date: May 5th, 2023
Location: New York City
Did you miss Sprinting with us in New York City? Don’t worry, we have all of the exciting details and updates ready for you to take a look at. But first, what’s a Community Sprint? If this is your first time encountering our events, Sprints are Salesforce hosted community innovation events that are regularly hosted to bring nonprofit & education organizations, partners, and employee volunteers together to identify, prioritize and build solutions that make using Salesforce more impactful. Join our Trailblazer Group to stay tuned to upcoming events and ways you can participate. Learn more!
We Sprinted with a packed room of 78 Nonprofit and Education Customers, Partners, and Salesforce employee volunteers at the NYC Salesforce tower Friday, May 5th. For 71% of our attendees, this was their first time coming together in a space like this to collaborate and build solutions for their nonprofits and schools, so you can imagine the first-time jitters many felt entering the room. The social breakfast provided networking opportunities, a chance for those who’d signed up to get a welcome buddy to meet up for the first time, and big hugs for those that hadn’t seen each other in literally years.
We received a warm welcome filled with gratitude from Salesforce Executive Vice President of Global Nonprofits Michael Wolff, and of a surprise welcome from our trusted Community Mascot Sprinty. Our events are so inclusive, even a T-Rex can contribute his skills!
Feedback is still rolling in, but we heard that “after the size of world tour it was nice to connect in a smaller scale with folks”, that “being surrounded by people who could speak the same technical language was uniquely refreshing”, and “it was so energizing to collaborate and actually create outcomes that will benefit the collective good”.
What was worked on throughout the Sprint?
Sprinters worked on seven different projects making a huge amount of progress in just 1 day. Here’s the full recap of who attended, what was worked on, and what you can expect to see at the next Sprint!
Grassroots Mobile Survey:
App providing affordable offline field survey capacity to global Nonprofits using Salesforce. Learn more, get the app, or connect with the team.
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Thought leadership for the future of the GRMS app, brainstormed flow possibilities, and explored the app looking for opportunities to expand its capabilities.
Next Steps:
- Create new ways to send different data down to the app during syncs, explore Heroku, and other ways to implement Salesforce offline usage.
Food Pantry Data Model:
Impact Labs research to build a food pantry application to extend our Nonprofit Cloud Program Management features.
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Creating a solution overview with a potential data model, extensions, analytics, and automation.
Next Steps:
- Edit the original Impact Labs proposed data model to be more compatible with other data models. Consider the format for solution delivery. Develop project leadership to shepherd the project forward. Refine the Solution outline.
Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries (DLRS):
Tool to create object-to-object rollup summaries that extend Salesforce’s native functionality. Learn more, get the app, or connect with the team.
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Built out test scripts for backlogs, moved previously created documentation to GitHub pages, and initiated marketing plan discussion.
Next Steps:
- Review documentation on Pages, work with the developers’ team to automate quality assurance, and continue working on the official DLRS marketing plan.
Nonprofit Salesforce How-To Videos:
Team which creates short, digestible how-to videos from Nonprofit Cloud documentation. Connect with the team, watch the videos.
Work performed at the Sprint:
- The team’s goal was originally to complete 8 recordings by the end of the Sprint. But, with the help of Sprinters at the event they were able to complete 9 voice recordings.
Next Steps:
- Continue to do the same for the 26 videos in the teams’ queue.
App Advice and Consumer Reports:
Reimagining and resetting the Power of Us Hub group and recommendation tool for Nonprofit organizations to confidently select 3rd party solutions. Connect with the team
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Rebranding their Trailblazer Community group, creating a one-page document of questions to ask internally and externally to consider apps, and initiating the architecture of an Experience Cloud Site.
Next Steps:
- Finalize their one-pager and publish through SCR; continue designing the site - set up a separate Slack channel to continue the volunteer group!
Membership Schema and Benefits:
Application to help Nonprofits track membership data in Salesforce more effectively. Connect with the team
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Testing install steps and creating examples of common membership scenarios and how they would be represented in the data.
Next Steps:
- Report back to the core team about what they did and continue to make use of case examples. They would also like to welcome the new members to core monthly team meetings.
Sprinty’s Community Resources:
Community-maintained online library of community content to help NPO and EDU-focused Admins find what they need, fast. Check out and contribute to the library, connect with the team
Work performed at the Sprint:
- Submitting resources to the library that can help nonprofit admins learn.
Next Steps:
- Get everyone who has any helpful links, documents, videos, etc. to please submit a resource!
It was such a fantastic event, and we hope to see you at the next one. Huge thank you to all that participated, especially our team leaders. THANK YOU!
We’ve got a lot in store for you this year, and we would love to see you at a future Sprint!
- Join us in London, UK at the Salesforce Tower on Friday June 30th (after World Tour London) for a 1-day Sprint. Registration is now live, and space is limited so don’t delay!
- Save the date for Chicago in October coming soon!