Chapter 2: What Is NPSP?
Nonprofit Success Pack, also known as NPSP, is the foundation of Nonprofit Cloud. Its data architecture and native functionality are critical to additional components and implementation. NPSP is the foundation of all of the Nonprofit Cloud fundraising features.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Basic premises and use cases for NPSP
- NPSP data architecture
- Fundraising in NPSP
The goal of this chapter will be to understand how NPSP originated and how its original use cases continue to utilize NPSP. Understanding the architecture of NPSP and the similarities and differences between the Nonprofit Cloud architecture and the standard Salesforce architecture is critical to understanding how a nonprofit's business processes fit into the architecture, along with the fundraising features built into NPSP.
