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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 organization’s data—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 Partners’ 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 Workplaces™ by Great Place to

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Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Leading Through Governance

Written by Cloud for Good Team In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good recently hosted a virtual roundtable diving into the implications for nonprofit organizations as it relates to the

How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot- Cloud for Good

How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot

Written by Cloud for Good Team Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Considering the massive investments

Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

Written by Cloud for Good Team July 12, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – IDG’s Insider Pro and Computerworld announce Cloud for Good as #2 on the 2021

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Resilience, Recovery, Reimagining: How Salesforce Can Help Hospitals Survive COVID-19

Resilience, Recovery, Reimagining: How Salesforce Can Help Hospitals Survive COVID-19

Written by Cloud for Good Team The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the incredible weaknesses that currently exist in the American public health system. While the strengths

Cloud for Good is Great Place to Work Certified for the 7th Year in a Row- Press Release- Cloud for Good

Cloud for Good is Great Place to Work Certified for the 7th Year in a Row

Written by Cloud for Good Team Asheville, North Carolina – February 23, 2021 – Cloud for Good has been certified as a Great Place to Work for

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Salesforce Spring ’21 Release Recap

Written by Cloud for Good Team One of my favorite things about Salesforce is that it is constantly evolving, with regular releases three times a year.

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An Interview with Omatic: Connecting Accounting + Fundraising Departments with Salesforce Integration

Written by Cloud for Good Team Accounting and fundraising are two connected, yet disparate, departments found within most nonprofit organizations. While the departments are intrinsically linked,

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The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

Written by Cloud for Good Team As a continuation of our Gift Processing with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator blog published last month, I wanted to

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Keeping Your Data Safe: Finding Peace of Mind With Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Security has been one of the most prevailing through-lines of 2020 and 2021.  Through taking donor information over the phone

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Crafting A Constituent-Centric Experience In The Post-Pandemic World

Written by Cloud for Good Team NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. There’s no denying the profound impact COVID-19 has had

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Gift Processing With Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

Written by Cloud for Good Team As outlined in Tal Frankfurt and Kestryl Lowrey’s illuminating examination on Salesforce Advancement for Higher Education, the Nonprofit Success Pack

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Using Marketing Cloud as a Lead Funnel Tool, Part 2

Written by Cloud for Good Team Welcome back to our exploration of using Marketing Cloud as a lead funnel! If you haven’t yet, make sure to

What Is My Salesforce Instance and When Will I Need It?

What Is My Salesforce Instance and When Will I Need It?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Much like knowing how many and what kind of licenses you have, whether you’re on Salesforce’s Sales or Service Cloud,

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The Stack Explained: Claudeforce, Agentforce, AIforce, and Slackbot

Claudeforce, Agentforce, Headless 360, and Slackbot: how the Salesforce AI stack fits together for nonprofits, higher ed, credit unions, and government.
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Salesforce in Claude. Claude in Salesforce. 

A two-way road.  Claude brings the intelligence. Salesforce holds the foundation, the data, and the rules that govern who can touch what. The security comes from

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When Seconds Decide the Outcome: Why Emergency Response Cannot Run on a Blind System 

By Cloud for Good Emergency response coordination is one of the most consequential workforce problems in public service. The volume is staggering, the margin for error

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When Silence Is the System: Closing the Communication Gaps in Foster Care 

Silence has failed the foster care system on both ends.  On one end is the person who decided they might be ready to foster a child.

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Moving Beyond Point-to-Point Integration: Why Salesforce Is a Powerful Alternative to Lingk for Higher Education

Joy Asakawa, Director of Sales, EDU For years, higher education institutions have relied on integration platforms and middleware solutionslike Lingk to move critical data between their

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The AI Your Team Will Actually Use Is Already in Slack

AI adoption stalls when tools sit outside the workflow. Here is why Cloud for Good treats Slack as the employee AI productivity layer to start with.