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Modern Day Advancement on Salesforce

Download the Modern Day Advancement on Salesforce whitepaper to learn more about how there is no platform better suited to serve advancement teams than Salesforce.

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What to Expect from the Summer ’21 Release

There are several new, exciting tools for Salesforce Administrators in the Salesforce Summer ’21 Release, such as Learning Paths and the Active Licenses tab. Additionally, there...

Recapping the First Salesforce Nonprofit Summit Sessions

On April 21, 2021, Salesforce.org brought together an international Nonprofit Community for the very first Nonprofit Summit. Held virtually, this inaugural event featured appearances from inspiring...

Inferring Gender for Personalized Ads on Social Media

As a frequent Salesforce Social Studio user, I often find myself exploring the new avenues that the tool offers. While diving into a Cloud for Good-specific...

How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology

Salesforce technology has played an increasingly prevalent role in the delivering of Zero to Three’s mission....

What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits?

Salesforce brings over 150K companies and their customers together through the power of connective technology. There have been great blogs and videos released explaining how the expansive platform works to help break...

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

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

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

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...

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

Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013....

Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce

There’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

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

Ensuring Training Success

Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ...

Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to...