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Lightning Strikes Dreamforce - What It Means for Your Organization

Lightning Strikes Dreamforce – What It Means for Your Organization

What is Salesforce Lightning, and why is it important? Fundamentally, Lightning is a set of tools that allow organizations to customize the way they use Salesforce
Clicktools Surveys: Collecting Constituents Feedback in Salesforce

Clicktools Surveys: Collecting Constituents Feedback in Salesforce

Clicktools is an online survey creating/capturing solution available through the Salesforce AppExchange. Offering organizations the ability to integrate customer feedback into their Salesforce database. Considered one
Integrating Google Apps and Salesforce: A Bridge Between Clouds

Integrating Google Apps and Salesforce: A Bridge Between Clouds

Since most of us spend a large percentage of our day in our email boxes, bridging your Salesforce and Google Apps accounts in imperative. Doing so
Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce

Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce

After months of planning and anticipation, Dreamforce โ€™14 has come and gone. We were inspired by keynotes, learned new things at hands-on training sessions, danced to
Dance Me To The End - 5 Tips for After Dreamforce

Dance Me To The End – 5 Tips for After Dreamforce

As with all good things, Dreamforce inevitably comes to an end, we all find our way back home, and for the briefest of moments, we have
4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready

4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready

This new Salesforce Analytics Cloud helps โ€œeveryday usersโ€ (not trained analysts) make informed decisions. However, implementing this technology would require a significant commitment from your organization.
Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity

Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity

There are some calls that go sour, some meetings where obstreperousness is abundant, and some that happen to fall on everyoneโ€™s bad day. These are key
How Dreamforce Changed Me

How Dreamforce Changed Me

For me, 2013 was the first year I was able to attend Dreamforce and I must say I had no clue what to expect. Sure I
White Paper: Becoming a Connected Organization

White Paper: Becoming a Connected Organization

Wondering about the Nonprofit Starter Pack or NGO Connect? We have done all the leg work for you! Download this free white paper to navigate the
How Dreamforce Changed Me

10 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Attend Dreamforce

You may be asking yourself, โ€œBut why should my nonprofit attend? Isnโ€™t it just another tech conference?โ€ To answer this question Iโ€™ve put together the following

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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Todayโ€™s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman- Cloud for Good

Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Todayโ€™s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

Cloud for Good Founder and CEO Tal Frankfurt sits down with Robert Lerman to discuss the role of apprenticeship in the digital economy.
Cloud for Good at EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021- Cloud for Good

Cloud for Good at EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference brings together professionals and technology providers to explore solutions to continuing challenges. Learn how to find Cloud for Good will be at
What Can Apsona Do for Nonprofits? - Cloud for Good

What Can Apsona Do for Nonprofits?

Apsona for Salesforce is a vital tool for any nonprofit organization and is particularly valuable for those operating within NPSP.
Salesforce Winter '22 Release: What You Need to Know - Cloud for Good

Salesforce Winter ’22 Release: What You Need to Know

Written by Cloud for Good Team In the Salesforce Winter โ€™22 Release, there are a number of intuitive new features, updates, and functionalities sure to benefit

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Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research (OVPR)

Written by Cloud for Good Team Following the considerable success the University of Vermont (UVM) found using Salesforce Marketing and Service Cloud to safely and efficiently

Dreamforce 2021 for the Nonprofit and Education Sectors: A Hybrid Experience - Cloud for Good

Dreamforce 2021 for the Nonprofit and Education Sectors: A Hybrid Experience

Written by Cloud for Good Team Dreamforce 2021 Some of our Goodies received an exclusive invitation to attend Dreamforce 2021 live in person! While this was

Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap - Cloud for Good

Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce today is a much different company than it was when I first entered the ecosystem in 2005. I was

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021 - Cloud for Good

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Written by Cloud for Good Team Giving Tuesday 2021 is just 60 days away, but donโ€™t stress, if you havenโ€™t started planning yet, you still have

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities - Cloud for Good

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

Written by Cloud for Good Team 2020 was, by all accounts, a landmark year for Cloud for Good.  Not only was it the companyโ€™s tenth anniversary,

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies - Cloud for Good

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

Written by Cloud for Good Team Written by Kestryl Lowrey and Stephen Earheart When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organizationโ€™s dataโ€”the

Hand holding tree growing from coins showing financial growth - Cloud for Good

The Top Ways Technology Expands Access To Donor-Advised Funds

Thanks to technology and digital platforms, access to donor-advised funds (DAFs) has expanded for a wider spectrum of donors.
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Agentic Marketing with Salesforce: Exciting Marketing Announcements at Connections 2025

The Cloud for Good team had an opportunity to learn about Salesforceโ€™s bold vision of agentic marketing with Agentforce and some exciting marketing announcements at Salesforce's
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Doing More With Less: A Conversation With Salesforce On How Technology Can Power Your Organization Through Uncertainty

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on how mission-driven organizations can leverage smart, scalable technology to deepen impact, drive efficiency, and future-proof their missions.
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Reimagining the Student Experience: A Conversation with Salesforce on Building the Next-Gen Student Information System

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on the future of student information systems (SIS), why legacy tools are no longer enough, and how AI
Salesforce Summer '25 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Summer ’25 Release: What You Need to Know

Learn about the most important highlights in Security & Permissions enhancements, automation and screen flow updates, and more in Salesforce's Summer '25 Release.
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Less Admin, More Impact: How Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Transforms Grantmaking

Through empowering grantmakers to streamline operations, enhance transparency, and make data-informed decisions that amplify impact, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is transforming grantmaking processes for organizations.