This last week, the Salesforce Foundation announced they are kicking off the much anticipated development of version 2 of the Nonprofit Edition. This is exciting on many fronts:

• It’s happening!
• The brilliant and uber-sharing Steve Andersen will be leading the project.
• The sf.com Foundation is again making this an open and transparent process with the NPSF Community:

-The NPSF community has the domain knowledge necessary to serve nonprofits with Salesforce.com–the Foundation doesn’t have this expansive knowledge
-The Foundation can’t be successful or sustainable without a vibrant ecosystem of integrators and add-on tool providers
-The Foundation puts great importance on it’s ability to listen to the community, and wants this process to reinforce that

Read Steve Andersen’s kickoff email for more information.

This affirms for me again why I develop off of this platform: The vendor is truly committed to the nonprofit sector (do I dare say…committed to social change) and does not assume to have all the domain expertise to prescribe a solution to its customers.