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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)....

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A New Shift in Fundraising Strategy Could Actually Make Us Happier

There is a provocative change happening right before our eyes in the world of fundraising. Nonprofits are raising more money than ever before, and today’s nonprofits...
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Nonprofit Tech Strategies for the Season of Giving

Guest post By Sean Alpert, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Salesforce It’s hard to wrap your head around how large nonprofits have become, how many crucial...

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Igniting Education Reform Through Salesforce

The Salesforce platform is great for organizations who are working to reform education. Implementing Salesforce allows your organization to develop a strategic plan to manage your...
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Advocacy Tools for Salesforce

Advocacy organizations and organizations that are working to influence policy can choose from a number of cloud-based technology options to connect with constituents and policymakers. We’ve...

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Making Sense of the Marketing Cloud

Salesforce is an excellent tool for tracking information about constituents, programs, fundraising, and so much more. But when you want to add marketing functionality to your...

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Hundreds of Nonprofits Attended Salesforce World Tour in NYC

On November 18, Cloud for Good attended the Salesforce World Tour in NYC and had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of local nonprofits utilizing Salesforce...