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Putting Predictions Into Your Alumni Sustainer Program

Putting Predictions Into Your Alumni Sustainer Program

The Salesforce Einstein Analytics tool provides organizations with the ability to visualize the activity taking place within their unique Salesforce environment, offering invaluable insights and health checks on their...

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The Latest NPSP Releases for Summer ’20

The highly-anticipated Summer ’20 Release is finally here! This new NPSP release introduces timely enhancements for user experience and features several innovations to the Lightning Flow...

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Why Donating to Higher Education Still Makes a Difference

I have a number of connections to the higher education industry: I’m on an EDA team at Cloud for Good; my mom is an admissions counselor...

New Salesforce Education Cloud Release Provides Connection in Times of Separation

New Salesforce Education Cloud Release Provides Connection in Times of Separation

The need for creative solutions and progressive thinking within the world of higher education has never been greater. While the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...

How Calbright College is Withstanding a Pandemic Without Compromise

How Calbright College is Withstanding a Pandemic Without Compromise

Through Salesforce, Calbright College is offering invaluable education to the underserved and underemployed in their time of need....
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5 Ways to Prepare for Your Salesforce Migration

When it comes to migrating your organization from one Salesforce instance to another, there are 5 key points of preparation to keep in mind before moving...

National Aquarium: Using Technology to Traverse Turbulent Waters with National Aquarium

National Aquarium: Using Technology to Traverse Turbulent Waters with National Aquarium

Learn how Salesforce helped National Aquarium navigate the turbulent waters of COVID-19 and prepare for a post-pandemic world....
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Fundraising During a Crisis is All About Relationships: The Human Rights Watch Story

Human Rights Watch is navigating the changing market to bring in funds and find new donors with Salesforce....
5 Tips for Higher Education Institutions and Nonprofit Organizations Working Remotely

5 Tips for Higher Education Institutions and Nonprofit Organizations Working Remotely

The Rise of Remote Workers When the internet was born in the 1980s, employers began allowing employees to work from their own home offices. As technology...

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5 Tips to Become a Successful Online Student

Colleges and Universities nationwide are moving their curriculums online as a result of the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. While this sudden wave of change washing over our...

Goodies Give Back: Celebrating the Season of Giving Year-Round

Goodies Give Back: Celebrating the Season of Giving Year-Round

The season of giving has always been a time for us to pause, count our blessings, and reflect on what we are grateful for. It is...

The User Experience Differences Between Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and Raiser’s Edge

The User Experience Differences Between Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and Raiser’s Edge

The ability to deliver great user experiences is one of the strengths of Salesforce’s Nonprofit Cloud that makes it vastly superior to Blackbaud brand fundraising solutions...
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Agentforce for Nonprofits and Higher Education: What You Need to Know

Here are our first impressions and thoughts about Agentforce, Salesforce's newest suite of autonomous, more advanced, accurate, and intelligent AI agents, how it works, and its...
Celebrating What Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work on National Certification Day

Celebrating What Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work on National Certification Day

Today is Certification Nation Day, and for its tenth consecutive year Cloud for Good was recognized as a Great Place To Work Certified® company in the United...

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Considerations for Migrating from NPSP to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: Understand the Impact of Your Data

Another new iPhone model has arrived, and for many of us that means switching over all our data, applications, and media onto a new device. If...

OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

To OPM? Or n(O)PM? That is the question. No, that wasn’t the question that made it into Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, but it is a legitimate question that...