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Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Giving Tuesday 2021 is just 60 days away, but don’t stress, if you haven’t started planning yet, you still have time. When is Giving Tuesday 2021?...

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

2020 was, by all accounts, a landmark year for Cloud for Good.  Not only was it the company’s tenth anniversary, but it also marked the launch...

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

Written by Kestryl Lowrey and Stephen Earheart When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s data—the volume, the quality, and the insights...

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360

Salesforce Digital 360 has become the new industry standard for creating more meaningful customer experiences through digital-first solutions. Connecting the power of marketing, commerce, and online...

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Often campuses come to Cloud for Good with their data spread out across various systems, departments, and sometimes even spreadsheets. Because of this, they lack a...

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Achieve Partners’ newest deal backs solutions provider to help close talent gap in fast-growing Salesforce ecosystem August 19, 2021 [New York, New York] – Achieve Partners...

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to your grantmakers, board members, donors, and...

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

Cloud for Good was recently recognized as one of the 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine.  This is Cloud for...

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

In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices...

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Cloud for Good recently hosted a virtual roundtable diving into the implications for nonprofit organizations as it relates to the end-of-life announcement for Luminate CRM (LCRM)....

Keeping Your Data Safe: Protecting HIPAA with Salesforce

Keeping Your Data Safe: Protecting HIPAA with Salesforce

Before my time at Cloud for Good, I worked for a medical transcription company as a Microsoft Network Administrator.  Soon into my role, HIPAA was introduced...

Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

March 23, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good recently unveiled their latest technology offerings to the education sector with the announcement of the Advancement and...

Creating Actionable Data with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

Creating Actionable Data with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator, we showed how the connection between the Nonprofit...

How to Get the Most Out of Salesforce's Nonprofit Summit

How to Get the Most Out of Salesforce’s Nonprofit Summit

The first-ever Salesforce Nonprofit Summit is almost a month away! Below are some details on how you can join the amazing speakers, an inspiring community of changemakers, and education breakout sessions...

Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Admissions Connect

Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Admissions Connect

Admissions Connect is a comprehensive new tool from Salesforce.org poised to transform the way recruiting and admissions departments engage with their prospective students in the higher education space.  Built on the Education Data Architecture...

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5 Stumbling Blocks to Migrating Recurring Donors and How to Overcome Them

Nonprofit organizations rely on recurring donors to help them deliver ontheir mission. Not only do they provide consistent monthly revenue but, according to Philanthropy News Digest,...