This document summarizes the details of the Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board, including its purpose and structure. It outlines the benefits and responsibilities of board members, as well as the nomination and election process. Key points include that the board aims to balance staff and community perspectives, make decisions transparently, and prioritize community feedback and feature requests. It reserves seats for 3 members each from nonprofit organizations and partner companies that use the Nonprofit Starter Pack.

1. Nonprofit Starter Pack
Advisory Board
Judi Sohn
Open Source Manager
jsohn@salesforce.com
@judis217
Background & Nomination Process

2. All Voices at Table
• Balance between Foundation staff and those in community
who have made long term investment in Nonprofit Starter Pack
Transparency and Trust
• Decisions and processes are public
• Increase community faith in Nonprofit Starter Pack future
Open Contribution
• Participation on Board and contributions to Nonprofit Starter Pack are based on history and merit
Make a better product
• Thoughtful roadmap
• Clear, consistent vision and guidelines for contribution
https://github.com/SalesforceFoundation/NPSP-Advisory-Board
What do we want to accomplish?
Background and Purpose

3. Benefits, Responsibilities and
Board Structure

4. • Participation in private Power of Us Hub community to provide open, honest feedback directly to
core contributors
• Note that summaries of all major Board decisions will be made public to the community
• Opportunity to directly influence and impact the Nonprofit Starter Pack roadmap
• Invitation to speaking opportunities on behalf of the Nonprofit Starter Pack project
What do Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Members get?
Benefits

5. • Establish and maintain Nonprofit Starter Pack guideline documents
• Clearly articulate what should and should not be included in Nonprofit Starter Pack
• You do not need to know Apex or any advanced technical concepts
• Prioritize community-contributed feature requests
• Vote on community-contributed abstracts
• Confirm that contributions are well-documented and are incorporated seamlessly into existing
knowledgebase
• Represent the Nonprofit Starter Pack project to the community and escalate community feedback
and concerns
• Evangelize Nonprofit Starter Pack contribution in external developer communities
What is expected of Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Members?
Responsibilities

6. • The key here is that organization seats are for those whose primary job is to work with a single
organization, and not in a consultant capacity
• The organization must be using Nonprofit Starter Pack 3 in their production instance
• Only one Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Member per nonprofit organization per year
• Members are nominated and elected as individuals to represent the interests of the community,
not on behalf of their organizations
• Terms are for one year
• Nominations are solicited new each year
• Members may serve no more than 2 consecutive years
3 Members per year from nonprofit organizations
Organization Seats

7. • Members can be either from ISV or SI Partner organizations
• Should have significant experience with implementing and integrating with Nonprofit Starter Pack 3
• While Members are not required to participate in the Salesforce Partner Program or Foundation
Partner program, it’s always about Trust. Partner Members must have a Power of Us Hub profile
connected to their consulting/partner organization, not a client organization.
• Send a private message to Dave Averill in the Power of Us Hub if you would like more information about the
Foundation Partner Program
• Only one Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Member per partner organization, per year
• This is not a marketing, sales or lead generation opportunity
• Members are nominated and elected as individuals to represent the interests of the community,
not on behalf of their organizations or an app package
• Terms are for one year
• Nominations are solicited new each year
• Members may serve no more than 2 consecutive years
3 Members per year from partner organizations
Partner Seats

8. • Project Lead
• Facilitator
• Appointed by Project Lead
• Member to represent broader Open Source community
• Foundation Non-Technical Representative
• Top Code Contributors
• May or may not be Salesforce Foundation employees
Not elected by nomination
Other Seats

9. Nomination Process

10. • Week of June 15, 2015 – Nominations Open
• July 13, 2015 – Nomination form closes at end of day
• July 15, 2015 – Nominations posted to Power of Us Hub and voting begins
• July 31, 2015 – Voting Closes
• Early August 2015 - Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Announced
• Terms begin upon announcement
Terms run until end of July 2016. Nominations open again in June 2016.
Inaugural Board
Timeline

11. • Complete form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1flclZ3Fy-Y4i-
RxJMHj43zF8C_bpJhayIkiWDQ2X3YY/viewform
• People should nominate themselves! While nominating others is flattering, we’re most interested in
nominees who understand and accept the responsibilities of serving on the Board
• Once confirmed eligible to serve, a post will be started in the NPSP Group in the Hub – one for
nonprofit organizations, one for partners
• Nomination essays will be attached to each post as comments
• Post will be a poll with a choice for each name
• While liking a comment or the post is fine, any extra comments will be discouraged and deleted
• The top 3 vote-getters per organization type and per unique organization will be invited to join the
Board
• Nomination submissions will be accepted until end of day July 13th and voting begins on July 15th
• Voting closes on July 31, 2015 - Board Terms begin August 2015
Nominations!