Let me first introduce myself since this is my first blog post. My name is Chris Atwood and I manage Nonprofits and Education for Salesforce.com on the East Coast and for EMEA (including our UK customers). I've been working with nonprofits for three years and my mission in life is to work with our larger nonprofits and helping them to use Salesforce.com. Many of our nonprofits have extensive needs around fundraising and we are always looking for partners that want to work with Salesforce.com to solve a need of a nonprofit. The larger ones tend to want to track their programs and their fundraising all in the same place.

About a week and a half ago I attended the Convio Summit event in Austin, TX. Convio has a well known and well used e-crm product for online fundraising, web-advocacy, and emailing. I had an opportunity to also speak on a Datasync panel and walk a packed room of large nonprofits through our donation program and product. Convio announced and demoed throughout the conference their new integration with Salesforce.com that they created.