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Managing Student Success with Advisor Link

Using Salesforce to enroll students is a great choice but using Salesforce to help keep them at your institution is even better! Advisor Link is the...

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Finding a New Home for Your Fundraising

Are you thinking of migrating your organization’s fundraising technology from a legacy system, like Raiser’s Edge, to Salesforce? Let’s dive deep into the differences between your...

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Better Engagement for Donors and Volunteers

Learn how you can better engage your donors and volunteers throughout their entire journey with your organization. From newsletters, preference centers, and an omnichannel experience; we’ll...

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Reducing technology debt with Salesforce

The Nonprofit Cloud is a tool that is designed to break down departmental silos by increasing collaboration across your organization. In this discussion, we’ll address reasons...

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Options for Your Accounting Reconciliation with Salesforce

We often see a disconnect in nonprofit organizations between the fundraising process and the reconciliation of those details into finance. This means the valuable time from...

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Unified customer experience with Service Cloud

The need for intuitive customer experiences is at an all-time high. Your customers deserve an intelligently-designed system that will enable, not hinder, their experience with your...

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Managing Your Programs with Salesforce

Human Service organizations work hard every day to make our world a better place. Whether you have one, twenty or more programs, understanding their success and...

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Recapping the Salesforce Winter ’21 Release

The Winter ’21 Release is here! System Administrators are going to love the new features designed to optimize user experience, including the general release of dynamic...

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Cloud for Good Named on Fortune’s 2020 Best Small & Medium Workplaces + Comparably’s Best Companies for Work-Life Balance Lists

October 16, 2020 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good, a certified BCorp and Salesforce.org 2020 Nonprofit Consulting Partner of the Year, today announced winning both an...

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Cloud for Good Awarded Salesforce.org Nonprofit Consulting Partner of the Year for Second Year in a Row

October 12, 2020 [Asheville, NC] –Cloud for Good was awarded the Salesforce.org 2020 AMER Consulting Partner of the Year – Nonprofit award at the Salesforce.org Virtual...

Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields

Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields

Roll-up summaries are a powerful tool within Salesforce to help you analyze your data without running a summary report. They can give you data specific to...
Tracking In-Kind Gifts in Salesforce

Tracking In-Kind Gifts in Salesforce

Let’s say you’re already tracking donations in Salesforce, and everything is going smoothly. But now a donor wants to make an in-kind gift to your organization....
Navigating NGO Connect Batch Upload

Navigating NGO Connect Batch Upload

Though we’d all love for all vendors to have seamless integrations with Salesforce, the truth is some of the vendors nonprofits works with do not. When...
Make Those Moves and Track Them Too: Salesforce Moves Management

Make Those Moves and Track Them Too: Salesforce Moves Management

Moves management is the process of moving a prospective donor from cultivation to solicitation. Learn how your Salesforce database can provide an essential backbone for your...
What Can We Learn From the Health Care Community?

What Can We Learn From the Health Care Community?

At Cloud for Good, we have our own version of what is called a M & M Conference in the healthcare industry (Morbidity and Mortality Conference-...
Data Management Tips for the Lone Wolf Admin

Data Management Tips for the Lone Wolf Admin

As a solo administrator, you’re a lone wolf, but it’s a big, dangerous world out there. The time to get smarter about managing your organization’s data...