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Modern Day Advancement on Salesforce

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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...

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Finding a Trusted Advisor

When you hire a consultant to help you with your Salesforce implementation, you’re hiring them because you have a problem you need help with whether it...
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How Nonprofits Can Get Past Technology Culture Shock

We are in the midst of a major technology revolution and succeeding in this revolution does not mean consuming additional technology, or as many of our...
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MS Excel Tools for Salesforce

As a Salesforce Admin, you have to be responsible for creating Salesforce data, maintaining that data and even extracting it so it can be analyzed and...
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Tahoe Dreamin’ –  The Advent of User Group Led Conferences

I had the pleasure of attending Tahoe Dreamin' – a Sacramento User Group sponsored event that took place at Lake Tahoe. This event was a jammed...
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#BestTeamEver: A True Story of Virtual Working

“So what does that mean that your company is virtual? Is your paycheck virtual too?” Those were the first questions my dad asked me when I...
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Before You Build the House: Preparing to Implement Salesforce

Start with a budget! With Salesforce, a lot of functionality is available right “out of the box” for the base price. There are some things, like...