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Top Five Reasons Your K-12 School Should Move to Salesforce

We've explored five reasons why K-12 schools are making the move to Salesforce. From breaking down silos to ensuring students receive the best education, the Salesforce

Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

Organizations that help animals find forever homes are turning to Salesforce to track adopters, donors, volunteers, events and more in a central location. Managing all animal

Facebook Fundraising Trends and the Expanding Nonprofit Technology Landscape

Facebook's waived donation fees and expanded fundraising and disaster relief tools have implications for the crowded nonprofit technology landscape in 2018.

The Benefits of Triggers in Salesforce

With Workflow Rules, Flows, and Process Builder at your fingertips, you may feel like code isn't necessary. However, there are times when code is needed over

Using Webforms for Useful and Actionable Data

The information your nonprofit gets out of Salesforce is only as good as the information your organization puts into it. Use webforms to collect useful and

#C4GGives – Cloud for Good Volunteer Week 2017

Cloud for Good held it's first ever Volunteer Week in 2017. Members of our team gave their time at area food banks and pantries. We not

Creating Donor Journeys to Increase Fundraising

Significant changes to the digital communication landscape help savvy organizations pivot to better engage their supporters. Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Journey Builder allow sophisticated, intelligent donor journeys

Having Fun and Playing Salesforce

While a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) platform is a must for many organizations, Salesforce can also be fun. We provide tips so your nonprofit can have

How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes

If your organization sometimes feels like a rodent warren of haphazard business processes, there are some things you can do to make them better. Start by

Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits

Each Salesforce release brings new and updated features to the platform. We explore some of the best Lightning features for nonprofits in the Winter '18 Release.

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Marketing Made Easy With Engagement Studio in Account Engagement

The real workhorse – the bread and butter – of Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (MCAE, formerly known as Pardot) is Engagement Studio.

Museum Membership Management, Ticketing, and Fundraising: A Journey from Blackbaud to Salesforce with the Guggenheim Museum

Migrating from Blackbaud to Salesforce has made a profound impact on Guggenheim Museum's membership management, ticketing, and fundraising. Learn more in this customer success story.

All Treats, No Tricks: 5 Cloud for Good Partners Sweetening the Nonprofit and Education Spaces

These five Cloud for Good partners offer solutions as sweet as candy for your nonprofit and education needs.

Salesforce Data Cloud for Higher Education Advancement

Data Cloud for higher education advancement unlocks invaluable insights and analytics that can help drive data-driven decisions.

End-Of-Year Strategies: Keeping Donors Engaged & Giving Featuring CARE

We all know end-of-year giving reigns supreme, so let’s dive into the key strategies you need to maximize fundraising this time of the year.

Cloud for Good Response to the Israel – Hamas War

Cloud for Good has and will always stand for the human rights of the innocent. As such, we wanted to provide resources on how you can

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: What You Need to Know About Fundraising & Outcome Management

The Winter '24 Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud release features highly anticipated updates to Fundraising and Outcome Management apps. Learn more here.

Salesforce Winter ’24 Release: What You Need to Know

Cloud for Good breaks down the exciting new features, key highlights, and most impactful enhancements of Salesforce’s Winter ‘24 release!

Cultivating Care with CK Family Services Through Salesforce Program and Case Management

Cloud for Good has helped CK Family Services leverage Salesforce to create a reliable system that can scale alongside the organization's mounting needs.

Utilizing Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a Shared Service

Cloud for Good dives deep into Marketing Cloud as a shared service and illustrates how to best leverage the multi-faceted solution.

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Often campuses come to Cloud for Good with their data spread out across various systems, departments, and sometimes even spreadsheets.

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Achieve Partners’ newest deal backs solutions provider to help close talent gap in fast-growing Salesforce ecosystem August 19, 2021 [New

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Written by Cloud for Good Team You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good was recently recognized as one of the 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplaces™ by Great Place to

Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Leading Through Governance

Written by Cloud for Good Team In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good recently hosted a virtual roundtable diving into the implications for nonprofit organizations as it relates to the

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Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Top Five Reasons Your K-12 School Should Move to Salesforce

Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

Facebook Fundraising Trends and the Expanding Nonprofit Technology Landscape

The Benefits of Triggers in Salesforce

Using Webforms for Useful and Actionable Data

#C4GGives – Cloud for Good Volunteer Week 2017

Creating Donor Journeys to Increase Fundraising

Having Fun and Playing Salesforce

How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes

Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits

Latest Posts

Marketing Made Easy With Engagement Studio in Account Engagement

Museum Membership Management, Ticketing, and Fundraising: A Journey from Blackbaud to Salesforce with the Guggenheim Museum

All Treats, No Tricks: 5 Cloud for Good Partners Sweetening the Nonprofit and Education Spaces

Salesforce Data Cloud for Higher Education Advancement

End-Of-Year Strategies: Keeping Donors Engaged & Giving Featuring CARE

Cloud for Good Response to the Israel – Hamas War

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: What You Need to Know About Fundraising & Outcome Management

Salesforce Winter ’24 Release: What You Need to Know

Cultivating Care with CK Family Services Through Salesforce Program and Case Management

Utilizing Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a Shared Service

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Leading Through Governance

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect