Collaborative CRM Platform – Article Series

Rebuilding Together is a national housing nonprofit organization with 140 offices located throughout the country dedicated to repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.  This mission coincides with our vision of safe homes and communities for everyone. Conrad Pawlina serves in the Operations department overseeing Rebuilding Together’s national technology strategy as well as physical and digital systems.  This includes serving as program lead for the Rebuilding Together Success Pack (RTSP) which is the organization’s CCRM initiative. His CCRM responsibilities include the onboarding strategy and implementation, affiliate office training, user group development, and post product support and maintenance.

As a pioneer in education reform, Breakthrough Collaborative, with its National and  25 affiliate offices, is tackling the achievement gap with a groundbreaking approach to helping highly motivated, underserved middle-and high-school students get on the path to college. Through the largest pre-service teacher-training program in the country, Breakthrough Collaborative provides best-in-class pre-professional training for more than 1,000 undergraduate teaching fellows each year.  Holly Havelka’s role during the implementation phase of the Collaborative CRM Platform is to provide a technical voice from the national perspective. While the CCRM is being developed, it is her job to ensure that the national Salesforce platform and team is READY to assume ownership of the finished product. She is also responsible for ensuring appropriate resources and support structures are in place for affiliates as each one implements the finished CCRM.

United Philanthropy Forum connects a diverse network of regional and national philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs) to lead change and increase impact in philanthropy. The Forum’s membership includes 75 philanthropy associations and networks across the United States that represent more than 7,000 foundations and other philanthropic organizations, making it the largest network serving philanthropy in America.

Val leads a growing technology platform built on integrated Salesforce and Drupal solutions that power nearly 30 member organizations and advance collective knowledge-sharing efforts.

Grounded Solutions Network is a national membership-based non-profit committed to promoting affordable housing strategies that keep homes affordable generation after generation.  Their CCRM journey began when Tiffany was brought on as a part-time consultant in 2010 to manage a small shared measurement project now known as HomeKeeper.  Tiffany has since expanded HomeKeeper to become a Salesforce web application collaboratively designed to help over 70 affordable housing and housing counseling programs better manage information and measure impact. Tiffany oversees product strategy, development and marketing. The HomeKeeper CCRM now spans a large data ecosystem including two managed packages, middleware, the HomeKeeper National Data Hub (a data warehouse), public interactive dashboards, and peer benchmarking reports.  See Tiffany’s great write-up, Considering Building a Salesforce App? Ask Your Team These 10 Questions.

Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy. PFLAG has 400 chapters and 200,000 supporters crossing multiple generations of American families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As a Field Manager at PFLAG, Brooke supports chapter members, leaders, and regional directors on annual chapter responsibilities (IRS and statewide reporting, financial statements, and membership). She provides management, leadership and accountability for the design, development, production and delivery of innovative design in PFLAG’s CCRM.

North Peak is a team of expert Salesforce consultants that focuses 100% on personalizing the Salesforce application around the goals, strategies and tactics of nonprofit organizations. Having scoped, created, distributed and/or supported Collaborative CRM Platforms on six different occasions, North Peak has unique experience in this domain. As Founder, CEO and Senior Consultant at North Peak, Brian Pickett plays has diverse roles across North Peak’s various CCRM Platform projects most recently focusing on appropriate CCRM governance, collaboration and Marcomm strategies to sustain a healthy level of participation across an affiliate network.