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Happy Thanksgiving from Cloud for Good

Cloud for Good has much to be thankful for this year. Considering the challenges 2020 has thrown everyone’s way, we want to take a moment and...

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Trailblazers Together: The Future of Events

2020 has been a year of massive change, and for marketing that has meant finding new, creative ways to engage with our donors, constituents, and friends....

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Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

On average, your constituents receive around 121 emails every day, including emails from their favorite restaurants, stores, or even meeting confirmations. With all of this traffic,...

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Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) for Higher Education Advancement

While NPSP was historically associated with the nonprofit sector, the versatility and customizability of the solution can also support large-scale fundraising for higher education institutions....
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You Can Have it all (With External Data Architectures)

It doesn’t always make sense to keep all of your data in Salesforce. Learn how organizations like the American Kennel Club and Childfund International are leveraging...

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Improving the Executive Learner Experience with Commerce Cloud

Executive learners have come to expect a seamless experience from course selection to in-course learning. Find out how you can transform and modernize your participant’s course...

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Reopening Your Campus with Salesforce

This year has been anything but ‘business as usual.’ Institutions want to open their doors to students, alumni, faculty, and staff – but how do you...

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Best Practices with Advancement on Salesforce

Your school relies on the generosity of alumni, your community, and friends of your university. Cloud for Good has spent over 10 years helping institutions utilize...

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Better Engagement Across the Student Lifecycle

Learn how you can better engage your students throughout their entire journey with your university. From recruitment and admission to student success and giving back; we’ll...

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Power up your academic research center

Learn how you can leverage the Salesforce platform to power up your academic research center’s missions. We’ll discuss use cases for research centers interested in leveraging...

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Implementing a roadmap helps us to properly set expectations and follow a strategic path in order to get to those places we are growing. Here are...
Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Using the Salesforce Publisher Actions can help speed up how your users enter data, all while keeping it clean. Be careful, though--you'll want to think your...
Introducing Social Customer Service

Introducing Social Customer Service

For organizations of any size, listening to constituents online doesn't only present the opportunity to uncover and address complaints and issues, but the opportunity to learn,...
New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

With a drag and drop user interface, Salesforce Visual Workflow allows you to automate a series of business process steps. Read why we are excited about...
Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Respecting a donor’s request for anonymity is critical to your relationship with your donors but your organization should retain the donor’s name and contact information when...
Oh, What a Journey! A Closer Look at the Exact Target Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

Oh, What a Journey! A Closer Look at the Exact Target Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

If you’re like me and went to both ExactTarget Connections in Indianapolis as well as Dreamforce in San Francisco back to back, you’re probably nursing a...