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Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

How autolaunched flows can help your users, and how you can combine them with custom settings to make your life as an administrator easier.

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Last year, Rallybound produced their inaugural infographic: Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events. In keeping with this tradition, they have recently released their new infographic

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

Automate your email, mobile, and social marketing to ensure you reach the right people in your network with the right messaging at the right time to

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Apsona for Salesforce is an app available on the AppExchange. It is a supplement to your existing Salesforce that significantly

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Implementing a roadmap helps us to properly set expectations and follow a strategic path in order to get to those places we are growing. Here are

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Using the Salesforce Publisher Actions can help speed up how your users enter data, all while keeping it clean. Be careful, though--you'll want to think your

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

With a drag and drop user interface, Salesforce Visual Workflow allows you to automate a series of business process steps. Read why we are excited about

Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Respecting a donor’s request for anonymity is critical to your relationship with your donors but your organization should retain the donor’s name and contact information when

Oh, What a Journey! A Closer Look at the Exact Target Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

If you’re like me and went to both ExactTarget Connections in Indianapolis as well as Dreamforce in San Francisco back to back, you’re probably nursing a

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Exploring Approaches to Technology Transformation: Data-First Versus Customer-First

Exploring data-first versus customer-first approaches to creating transformation through technology.

Einstein GPT, New Flow Templates, Data Cloud Updates, and More From TrailblazerDX 2023

Cloud for Good technical leadership team members attended TrailblazerDX 2023 to learn what’s next for Salesforce. Here are their takeaways.

Join Cloud for Good at AFP ICON 2023

Regarded as the largest gathering of fundraising professionals in the world, AFP ICON 2023 takes place April 16-18 in New Orleans, LA.

Your Guide to Navigating Salesforce Education Summit 2023

Hosted at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, Texas, April 10-12, the Salesforce Education Summit is the premier event to network with institutions.

Taking a Deep Dive Into Salesforce’s New Education Cloud Announcement

Cloud for Good takes a deep dive into Salesforce's new Education Cloud announcement and the evolution of Salesforce in the education industry.

Salesforce Has a New Vision for Nonprofit Cloud, What Does This Mean for Your Organization?

Salesforce has announced a new vision for Nonprofit Cloud that creates innovation through consolidation with the core Salesforce platform.

How Talent for Good Transforms Salesforce Staffing

Learn how a prestigious land-grant research university in Massachusetts has leveraged Talent for Good to build toward a more impactful future.

The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

When an organization’s critical fundraising facilitators are weakened, Cloud for Good Direct Response Services helps strengthen those efforts

Using Marketing Technology to Empower the Undervalued with JVS Boston

JVS Boston has developed a technology roadmap built on the only platform capable of true transformation: Salesforce.

7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

As Cloud for Good forges new paths in the higher education and nonprofit spaces in 2023, several trends have begun to catch our eye.

Hope, Gratitude, and Impact: Reflections on 2025 at Cloud for Good

Celebrate a year of resilience, innovation, and community impact with Cloud for Good. This 2025 reflection highlights transformative client outcomes, advancements in AI-powered IP, expanded partnerships,

7 Ways to Optimize Your End-of-Year Giving

Year-end giving is a major opportunity. With unified data, smart segmentation, and personalized outreach, nonprofits can boost donations and build lasting donor relationships.

Reimagining the Grantmaking Experience on Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking streamlines every stage of the grant lifecycle, empowering funders and grantees to focus on impact.

Meet the Monsters of Fundraising and Discover How to Defeat Them

The education keynote at Dreamforce 2025 unveiled groundbreaking announcements and innovations in Education Cloud and Agentforce from Salesforce. Here's what you need to know.

Education Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

The education keynote at Dreamforce 2025 unveiled groundbreaking announcements and innovations in Education Cloud and Agentforce from Salesforce. Here's what you need to know.

Nonprofit Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

At the nonprofit keynote at Dreamforce 2025, Cloud for Good and other nonprofit Trailblazers learned about some innovations and a name change for Nonprofit Cloud, and

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Introducing Social Customer Service

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Oh, What a Journey! A Closer Look at the Exact Target Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

Latest Posts

Exploring Approaches to Technology Transformation: Data-First Versus Customer-First

Einstein GPT, New Flow Templates, Data Cloud Updates, and More From TrailblazerDX 2023

Join Cloud for Good at AFP ICON 2023

Your Guide to Navigating Salesforce Education Summit 2023

Taking a Deep Dive Into Salesforce’s New Education Cloud Announcement

Salesforce Has a New Vision for Nonprofit Cloud, What Does This Mean for Your Organization?

How Talent for Good Transforms Salesforce Staffing

The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

Using Marketing Technology to Empower the Undervalued with JVS Boston

7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

Hope, Gratitude, and Impact: Reflections on 2025 at Cloud for Good

7 Ways to Optimize Your End-of-Year Giving

Reimagining the Grantmaking Experience on Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

Meet the Monsters of Fundraising and Discover How to Defeat Them

Education Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

Nonprofit Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know