Opportunity for Salesforce Professionals to Help Non Profit Dog Rescue 🐶 💻
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to use my professional skillset to help a grassroots dog rescue, The Animal Pad (San Diego, CA), who had spent three years trying to get Salesforce up and running prior to me joining the organization as a volunteer.
The group has about 100 volunteers working out of spreadsheets to manage an additional 500 volunteers , 300 fosters, and 1,000 dogs annually. The pains felt by these core volunteers are strikingly similar to what I’ve heard from customers in the past; too many spreadsheets, not enough controls, no versioning, poor reporting, the list goes on… and they’re dealing with all of this UNPAID.
Myself and a handful of other Salesforce employees/volunteers have spent the last year meeting weekly to get the rescue’s salesforce instance in a usable state. We are currently in UAT and are hoping to go live in the next couple months. There’s just one thing holding us back — licensing!
As a rescue funded entirely by donations, The Animal Pad faces a tough decision: redirecting funds towards licensing could mean fewer resources for rescuing dogs. However, there’s no doubt that having users live on salesforce would be hugely impactful - giving volunteers time back to recruit new volunteers, rescue more dogs, and expand donor outreach.
I’ve brought this to LinkedIn because anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem understands how transformational a Salesforce implementation can be for an organization. If you or your business are looking for a unique way to contribute to a nonprofit, please reach out to me. You’d be playing a critical role in rescuing dogs facing life-threatening circumstances and The Animal Pad would love to highlight you as a sponsor on their website as a part of their “pack”!
Shout out the amazing volunteer team who has made this possible Connor Sanderson Alisha Tungare Sam Euerle Antonios Zikos Julia Stapleton Christopher Ross (and more that I'm not connected with on LinkedIn!)
