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Challenge #1: Accounting in nonprofit settings involves significant complexity.
Challenge #2: Nonprofits must be vigilant stewards of donated monies and carefully monitor what they spend on every initiative and program.
Challenge #3: No two funds or grants are alike, creating extraordinary complexity in nonprofit accounting.
Challenge #4: Nonprofits face stringent requirements for reporting and transparent operations – and those hurdles are multiplying.
Challenge #5: IT budgets and expertise are scarce and financial management software can sometimes seem like a distracting and risky headache.

What if I verbalize Salesforce can solve all the Challenges in a go.

Lets Quick Start on Salesforce Non-Profit with the Help of Trailhead.

A Salesforce edition is a selected set of features and functionalities that also specifies the amount of customization possible, as well as the data and file storage capacity, and the API access available.

With the Power of Us license donation program, Salesforce.org customers receive 10 "CRM Lightning"(which includes both Sales Cloud Lightning and Service Cloud Lightning) Enterprise Edition licenses at no cost. A license is attached to a single user, so with 10 licenses, you could have 10 users logged on to your Salesforce org at one time.

If you need additional licenses or products, you can purchase them at a deep discount from Salesforce.org.

In addition to your 10 Lightning Enterprise Edition (EE) licenses, you may have also chosen an App that will help you manage donations, grants and volunteers. On the Salesforce.org website, you can choose between two trials - the standard Enterprise Edition and the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). The Nonprofit Success Pack App sits on top of your Lightning EE licenses.

Knowing what edition and what app you are using will be vital information for you to know as you review Salesforce documentation, log a tech support ticket, or ask for help from the community.

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Salesforce Plus NPSP:

“The Salesforce Plus NPSP” house model looks kindred to “the Salesforce,” because the Nonprofit Success  Pack is just a pre-built version of the base Salesforce model, that integrates and transmutes a few things while leaving basic Salesforce functionality intact.
Accounts, contacts, and opportunities are still the major building blocks. However, each NPSP account represents a household. Each household can be associated with multiple donors (contacts) and donations (opportunities). And since nonprofits may need to track more than donors, they can utilize contacts to manage all kinds of people data—members, volunteers, clients, board members. And they can utilize opportunities to manage grants, in-kind gifts, and memberships—not just donations.

Data Management :

Utilizer Interface
Cognate Objects and Records
Security
Mobile Access

Tap Into the Nonprofit Community :

With your Salesforce.org grant, you get a set of no-cost subscriptions to NPSP, along with access to the Power of Us Hub (authenticate with your NPSP tribulation username and password). The Hub is a portal for members of the Salesforce nonprofit community to collaborate. Whether you implement NPSP on your own or with avail from an implementation partner, you can always turn to the Hub with your questions. Folks in the Hub are agog to learn from and avail other users.

References :
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/modules/nonprofit_salesforce_basics/units/nonprofit_salesforce_learn
http://www.excluserv.com/non-profit-starter-pack/