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Salesforce Winter ’23 Release: What You Need to Know

The Salesforce Winter '23 Release is loaded with features sure to make your user experience easier and enhance your Salesforce instance.
Why All Companies Must Explore the Role of Ethics in Technology- Cloud for Good

Why All Companies Must Explore the Role of Ethics in Technology

The widespread adoption of technology has made the continued role of ethics in technology all the more important.
For the 9th Time, Cloud for Good Appears on the Inc. 5000- Cloud for Good

For the 9th Time, Cloud for Good Appears on the Inc. 5000

For the 9th straight year, Cloud for Good appears on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of growing private companies in America.
7 Ways to Get Ready for End-Of-Year Giving Today- Cloud for Good

7 Ways to Get Ready for End-Of-Year Giving Today

Getting your Salesforce org ready for end-of-year giving is an essential part of being prepared for success.
Marketing Cloud Multi-Factor Authentication Security Options- Cloud for Good

Marketing Cloud Multi-Factor Authentication Security Options

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is required for Salesforce Marketing Cloud as of August 9, 2022. Here's what you need to know about the latest security updates.
How Lessons Learned During the Pandemic Help Prepare Nonprofits and Higher Education for a Recession- Cloud for Good

How Lessons Learned During the Pandemic Help Prepare Nonprofits and Higher Education for a Recession

Learn how the lessons we've learned during the pandemic can help prepare your nonprofit or higher education institution for the impending recession.
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Salesforce Summer ’22 Release: What You Need to Know

The Salesforce Summer ’22 Release is packed with intuitive new features, updates, and functionalities sure to enhance your instance.
Understanding the New Vision + Vocabulary of Marketing Cloud- Cloud for Good

Understanding the New Vision + Vocabulary of Marketing Cloud

Salesforce recently shared its vision for the next generation of Marketing Cloud, including many commonly used products being rebranded.
Key Takeaways from Salesforce Connections 2022- Cloud for Good

Key Takeaways from Salesforce Connections 2022

Salesforce Connections brings together the brightest minds in digital marketing and commerce from across the ecosystem.

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Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Written by Cloud for Good Team On average, your constituents receive around 121 emails every day, including emails from their favorite restaurants, stores, or even meeting

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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)

Written by Cloud for Good Team It doesn’t always make sense to keep all of your data in Salesforce. Learn how organizations like the American Kennel

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Improving the Executive Learner Experience with Commerce Cloud

Written by Cloud for Good Team Executive learners have come to expect a seamless experience from course selection to in-course learning. Find out how you can

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Reopening Your Campus with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team This year has been anything but β€˜business as usual.’ Institutions want to open their doors to students, alumni, faculty, and

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Best Practices with Advancement on Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Your school relies on the generosity of alumni, your community, and friends of your university. Cloud for Good has spent

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Better Engagement Across the Student Lifecycle

Written by Cloud for Good Team Learn how you can better engage your students throughout their entire journey with your university. From recruitment and admission to

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Power up your academic research center

Written by Cloud for Good Team Learn how you can leverage the Salesforce platform to power up your academic research center’s missions. We’ll discuss use cases

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Managing Student Success with Advisor Link

Written by Cloud for Good Team Using Salesforce to enroll students is a great choice but using Salesforce to help keep them at your institution is

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Finding a New Home for Your Fundraising

Written by Cloud for Good Team Are you thinking of migrating your organization’s fundraising technology from a legacy system, like Raiser’s Edge, to Salesforce? Let’s dive

Where Is My Salesforce Data?- Cloud for Good

Where Is My Salesforce Data?!

One of the most common complaints on the various forums that serve the nonprofit community is that data has somehow either mysteriously disappeared, or that it
You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances- Cloud for Good

You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances

When implementing a new Salesforce instance from an existing one, sometimes it’s not just the data you need to move. It’s the heavy stuff: Metadata. Without
Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone- Cloud for Good

Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone

Before assigning the System Administrator profile to a user, think carefully about the power and responsibility you are conveying on that user and try to right-size
Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance- Cloud for Good

Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance

So how do you go about identifying fields that are underutilized? The folks at Qandor developed a great app called Field Trip that is perfect for
Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book- Cloud for Good

Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good is proud to release the first edition of our Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book. Our E-Book provides an

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It- Cloud for Good

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It

Know that the clearer your vision, the more ready, supportive of, and willing for change, and the more you understand your own desired outcomes and metrics,