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Implementing a Major Donor Strategy Using Salesforce Tools

There are several ways to manage major donors in Salesforce. Depending on the size of your development team and formal fundraising processes utilized, your organization may

Five Tips for Customizing the Lightning Experience

Customizing Salesforce's Lightning Experience is more involved than just changing page layouts, but it's also more powerful. We share five tips to help you customize the

Leveraging Salesforce and HEDA for Student Recruitment

In the face of a more competitive and increasingly diverse recruitment pool, it's important for higher education institutions to leverage recruitment data and analytics to identify

It’s Business Processes Time

In my four years at Cloud for Good, I have had the benefit of participating in every stage of implementing new solutions for organizations. I have seen

3 Considerations for Your First Nonprofit Drip Program

Nonprofit drip programs shouldn't feel overwhelming. In fact, your first nonprofit drip program can be very simple. Let us help guide you through this process and

How Women In Tech (WIT) Changed My Career

Women in Tech (WIT) and Salesforce are helping more women go after technology focused careers. One of our Goodies shares her story with WIT and the

Major Donors: Cultivating and Implementing A Salesforce Strategy

Major donors and the strategies around managing these portfolios can be one of the trickiest beasts to tame. Let's explore how you can match highlights of

Convert Volunteers to Donors and Vice Versa

Prior to joining Cloud for Good, I worked with a nonprofit in Atlanta called Points of Light whose mission was to increase capacity for other nonprofit

Roll Up Your ROI with Campaign Hierarchies

Campaign Hierarchies use the Parent Campaign field to link any number of child campaigns to a single parent campaign. We provide step-by-step instructions to help you

Take Note! Migrating Notes to New Content Notes in Salesforce

The Notes & Attachments related list is on the way out. Content Notes and Files will replace these features, and both have major advantages over the

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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.

Supporting Turkey and Syria in Their Time of Need

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Turkey and Syria, killing thousands and injuring tens of thousands more. Here's how you can help.

Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement: What’s Next for Salesforce and Social Media Management?

Planning a migration from Social Studio or looking for a new platform? Sprout Social puts data at your fingertips in one central location.

What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

The value of Slack is generated from its ability to connect people, tools, and operations, creating a repository of accessible knowledge.

Salesforce Spring ’23 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce is flying into the New Year with even more features to enhance your users’ experience in the Spring '23 release.

Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

No matter which CRM solution your organization implements, the overall success of the implemented technology is tied directly to your partner.

Happy Thanksgiving from Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good has much to be thankful for this year. Considering the challenges 2020 has thrown everyone’s way, we want to take a moment

Trailblazers Together: The Future of Events

Written by Cloud for Good Team 2020 has been a year of massive change, and for marketing that has meant finding new, creative ways to engage

Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Written by Cloud for Good Team On average, your constituents receive around 121 emails every day, including emails from their favorite restaurants, stores, or even meeting

Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) for Higher Education Advancement

While NPSP was historically associated with the nonprofit sector, the versatility and customizability of the solution can also support large-scale fundraising for higher education institutions.

You Can Have it all (With External Data Architectures)

Written by Cloud for Good Team It doesn’t always make sense to keep all of your data in Salesforce. Learn how organizations like the American Kennel

Managing Your Programs with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Human Service organizations work hard every day to make our world a better place. Whether you have one, twenty or

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Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Implementing a Major Donor Strategy Using Salesforce Tools

Five Tips for Customizing the Lightning Experience

Leveraging Salesforce and HEDA for Student Recruitment

It’s Business Processes Time

3 Considerations for Your First Nonprofit Drip Program

How Women In Tech (WIT) Changed My Career

Major Donors: Cultivating and Implementing A Salesforce Strategy

Convert Volunteers to Donors and Vice Versa

Roll Up Your ROI with Campaign Hierarchies

Take Note! Migrating Notes to New Content Notes in Salesforce

Latest Posts

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

Supporting Turkey and Syria in Their Time of Need

Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement: What’s Next for Salesforce and Social Media Management?

What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

Salesforce Spring ’23 Release: What You Need to Know

Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

Happy Thanksgiving from Cloud for Good

Trailblazers Together: The Future of Events

Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) for Higher Education Advancement

You Can Have it all (With External Data Architectures)

Managing Your Programs with Salesforce