Salesforce Summer ’26 Release: What’s Coming for Agentforce Nonprofit
The Salesforce Summer ’26 release is arriving this June, and for nonprofit organizations, the news is genuinely exciting. If you’ve been paying attention to the nonprofit sector’s challenges, which include staff burnout, limited budgets, and the constant struggle to do more with less, this release feels like Salesforce finally built features with nonprofit reality in […]
Salesforce Summer ’26 Release: What’s Coming for Agentforce Nonprofit
The Salesforce Summer ’26 release is arriving this June, and for nonprofit organizations, the news is genuinely exciting. If you’ve been paying attention to the nonprofit sector’s challenges, which include staff burnout, limited budgets, and the constant struggle to do more with less, this release feels like Salesforce finally built features with nonprofit reality in […]
What We’re Excited to See at Agentforce World Tour Toronto 2026
In 15 years of living and breathing the Salesforce ecosystem, I have seen the platform evolve from a simple CRM into something that looks, more and more, like the operating system of the modern organization. But I’ll be honest, nothing has felt as big a shift as what’s happening right now with agentic AI. On […]
Grants Management on Salesforce: A Practical Guide for Nonprofits Navigating Funding Uncertainty
Grants have always been one of the most complex revenue streams for nonprofits to manage, and in the current funding environment, that complexity has intensified. Federal budget negotiations, shifting philanthropic priorities, and increased competition for a finite pool of foundation dollars have put pressure on development teams that were already stretched thin. Many organizations are […]
From NPSP to Agentforce Nonprofit: What Every Nonprofit Leader Needs to Know Before Making the Move
If you’ve built your organization’s operations on Salesforce’s Nonprofit Success Pack, you’ve probably heard the buzz: Salesforce is moving the entire nonprofit ecosystem toward something new. Agentforce Nonprofit, the AI-powered evolution of what was once called Nonprofit Cloud is now the platform Salesforce is directing all new nonprofit organizations toward, and existing NPSP users are […]
U.S. Senate Offices Are Levelling Up Their Constituent Communications with Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Senate staff are some of the hardest-working communicators in the country. Every week, they field thousands of constituent inquiries, track complex legislative developments, and try to keep the people they serve informed and engaged. Yet when it comes to their most important outreach tool, the constituent eNewsletter, most offices are still stuck in a workflow […]
The Death of the Tab-Switch: How Slack’s 2026 Overhaul Reinvents the Way We Work
Last week, Marc Benioff and Parker Harris took the stage to announce something the ecosystem has been waiting for: a version of Slack that doesn’t just host conversations but actually executes work. With over 30 new features, Salesforce is making a bold claim: You may never need to log into the core Salesforce CRM UI […]
What We Learned at Agentforce World Tour and Why It Matters for Nonprofit and Public Sector Organizations
Last Thursday, members of the Belmar were at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for Salesforce’s Agentforce World Tour in Washington D.C. Honestly, we came away more energized about the future of mission-driven technology than we have been in years. If you work in the Nonprofit or Public Sector, this event was practically built for […]
Part 4: Your First 90 Days in the Agentic Era. A Roadmap for Nonprofit Leaders
We have covered a lot of ground in this series. We’ve looked at the Digital Brain (your unified data), the Zero Copy Window (connecting your systems without the headache), and the Trust Layer (the ethical guardrails that keep your mission safe). By now, you likely see the potential. You can imagine a future where your […]
Part 3: The Trust Layer. Ensuring Your AI is Ethical, Accurate, and Secure
In the first two parts of this series, we explored the concept of the “Digital Brain” and how “Zero Copy” technology allows that brain to access your donor data in real-time without the nightmare of manual data migration. But as we talk to nonprofit executive directors in 2026, one question inevitably rises to the top: […]