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For you non-profits that are evaluating or just beginning to use Salesforce.com for Nonprofits, I highly recommend you attend Salesforce.com’s global user conference this September, in San Francisco. I went last year with a board member for the non-profit that I help out, and we were able to network with other non-profit Salesforce.com administrators as well as partners that specialized in implementing Salesforce for non-profits. Even more enticing, registration for non-profit users is subsidized and available for $99. That’s about 90% off the list price for this 3.5-day conference. (No, I don’t get any commission by mentioning this.) The Salesforce.com Foundation mentions the registration code you should use (and you will be verified against your org to ensure you do belong to a non-profit), and the general registration page starts here.

For those of you who are new to salesforce.com, the company also runs a foundation. One of its charters is to donate CRM licenses to qualified nonprofit organizations to help them better manage their various constituents (donors, corporate sponsors, grant recipients, volunteers, etc.).

That’s right. Free salesforce.com licenses! Whoa, whoa. Hold your horses. If you’re part of a nonprofit, please read the following.

Before going for the shiny new free ball, stop and consider a few things: