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Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2015!

In case you weren't able to attend Dreamforce, or if you were in attendance and missed seeing us, don't worry! We've got pictures from our events
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Moving House: Steps for a Successful Data Migration

It doesn't matter if8ixn547AT you have 100 records or 1 million records, the data import phase of a project can seem like a daunting task. It's
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Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP) Data Importer Tool Deep Dive

Does the thought of migrating data make you want to run screaming? Is your organization using the NonProfit Starter Pack (NPSP)? Do you have data you
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Diversity at Dreamforce – A Promising Start, But Challenges Remain

Last week was Dreamforce, Salesforceโ€™s annual customer conference, which basically takes over the city of San Francisco for a week of keynotes, educational sessions and parties.
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Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries: An Adminโ€™s Must-Have Tool

Rollup summaries are great things to have in your admin toolkit. With a rollup summary, you can summarize information about child records on a parent record
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A Recap of Dreamforce – Day 3

Thursday was Product Keynote day at Dreamforce โ€˜15 and the Cloud for Good team spread out to cover them all. The Cloud for Good team left
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A Recap of Dreamforce 2015 – Day 2

Written by Cloud for Good Team DREAMFORCE: DAY TWO Another day has come and gone, and we are at the halfway mark of the 2015 edition

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A Recap of Dreamforce 2015 – Day 1

Day one is coming to a wrap here at Dreamforce 2015, and what a day it has been! Many (including the Cloud for Good team) were
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Simplify Salesforce Requirements Gathering with Use Cases

Defining system requirements and grouping them into a usable format is often a daunting task, but is a key component to successful Salesforce implementation. Utilizing use
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NPSP 3.0 Feature Overview

The Nonprofit Starter Pack 3.0 (NPSP 3.0) is a set of managed packages installed on Salesforce to customize the platform for some common nonprofit use cases.

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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

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360 - Cloud for Good

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce Digital 360 has become the new industry standard for creating more meaningful customer experiences through digital-first solutions. Connecting the

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Often campuses come to Cloud for Good with their data spread out across various systems, departments, and sometimes even spreadsheets.

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Achieve Partnersโ€™ newest deal backs solutions provider to help close talent gap in fast-growing Salesforce ecosystem August 19, 2021 [New

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Written by Cloud for Good Team You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work- Cloud for Good

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good was recently recognized as one of the 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplacesโ„ข by Great Place to

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question? - Cloud for Good

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question?

When evaluating your needs and choosing to implement a CRM solution, I recommend starting by asking the five Wโ€™s: Who, What, Where, When and Why.
Custom Code: Are you ready? - Cloud for Good

Custom Code: Are you ready?

It is an interesting dichotomy that while writing custom code allows you to manipulate the system in very sophisticated ways, every bit of custom code that
At Project's End: Separation Anxiety and User Adoption - Cloud for Good

At Project’s End: Separation Anxiety and User Adoption

Some of the biggest angst for my clients comes at the end of a project. Wrapping up an implementation brings all sorts of mixed feelings: pride
12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard - Cloud for Good

12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard

Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013.
Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce - Cloud for Good

Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce

Thereโ€™s a lot of talk about Best Practice in the nonprofit sector, and having consulted on projects large and small, I want to take moment to
Better Living Through Training and Documentation - Cloud for Good

Better Living Through Training and Documentation

As a system administrator, itโ€™s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created.