A review of AppExchange's free applications

10/26/2014

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This month, I decided to devote some time to review the 1,000 free apps currently available on the Salesforce AppExchange. As you can imagine, a majority of those apps, I didn't find as useful or relevant when thinking about how they might provide efficiencies to nonprofit Salesforce users. Many of them are specific to vendors and sales companies.

Fortunately, I was able to find 31 apps that could be very helpful for nonprofits currently using Salesforce for their data management and tracking needs. To highlight these apps, I've created an AppExchange Menu and am sharing it with all the Salesforce users I know!

These apps are organized into the following categories:

General Productivity
Communications
Student (and Parent) Management
Volunteer Management
Donor/Fundraising Management
Event Management
Miscellaneous

I hope that you find the guide helpful! If you have any questions about any of the apps, let me know. I have had the chance to install many of these packages already throughout the various Salesforce orgs that I manage.

Click here for the AppExchange Menu!

1 Comment

Kyra Young link

11/5/2014 01:44:50 am

Although I run a business, not a nonprofit, all of your articles have given me a clearer perspective of Salesforce and everything that it can do. I have already started my App Integrations including Mail Chimp, which I was very excited about!

Thanks Mer!

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