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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
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Seeing vs Doing: Understanding Learning Styles for Successful Training

Identifying learning styles among your users doesn’t need to involve having each user take a quiz or survey. You can likely identify some personality traits or
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A Nonprofit Guide to the Salesforce AppExchange

We have been hosting Apps for Good webinars over the last couple of years and we have written many great articles about the different apps that
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Creating a Data Map When You’re Lost in Data!

A data map is a great way to document the process of uncovering the secrets of a data set. We use them for so many different
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Volunteer Time Off: Engineering the Future

Everyone at Cloud for Good is passionate about nonprofits. I love hearing about all the different organizations everyone is involved with - the variety allows us
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Salesforce Trailhead Guides You to Success

Are you looking for training resources for your users? Check out Salesforce's free, fun interactive learning path, Trailhead.

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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

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Better Engagement for Donors and Volunteers

Written by Cloud for Good Team Learn how you can better engage your donors and volunteers throughout their entire journey with your organization. From newsletters, preference

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Reducing technology debt with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team The Nonprofit Cloud is a tool that is designed to break down departmental silos by increasing collaboration across your organization.

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Options for Your Accounting Reconciliation with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team We often see a disconnect in nonprofit organizations between the fundraising process and the reconciliation of those details into finance.

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Unified customer experience with Service Cloud

Written by Cloud for Good Team The need for intuitive customer experiences is at an all-time high. Your customers deserve an intelligently-designed system that will enable,

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Managing Your Programs with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Human Service organizations work hard every day to make our world a better place. Whether you have one, twenty or

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Recapping the Salesforce Winter ’21 Release

Written by Cloud for Good Team The Winter ’21 Release is here! System Administrators are going to love the new features designed to optimize user experience,

Content Builder Adds Pizazz to Marketing Cloud

Content Builder Adds Pizazz to Marketing Cloud

Content Builder is Marketing Cloud’s new cross-channel content app. It’s been in beta for over a year and it will be fully released this July. If
Dreamforce 2016 Registration is Open!

Dreamforce 2016 Registration is Open!

Registration for Dreamforce 2016 is now open! Take advantage of the discounted registration rate for nonprofits and higher education institution.! Learn, network, and develop your Salesforce
Stages of CRM Adoption

Stages of CRM Adoption

Through my work as a Salesforce consultant I believe there are three key levels or “energy states” an organization can potentially occupy. They run from low-adoption,
Data Validation for Your Salesforce Project

Data Validation for Your Salesforce Project

It's time for data validation. Here are some tips and tricks to making sure that you get your data looking exactly like you want it.
Data Proofing Your Salesforce Data

Data Proofing Your Salesforce Data

Data is a nonprofits best friend and should be treated as one of it's most powerful tools. Consider the information your organization may be recording on
Leveraging NPSP's Employer Gift Match Functionality to Take Your Fundraising to the Next Level

Leveraging NPSP’s Employer Gift Match Functionality to Take Your Fundraising to the Next Level

We all know that managing matching gifts can be a frustrating process for nonprofits, but it is becoming a far simpler and more worthwhile endeavor. The