Thought Leadership

Ideas and strategies to help purpose-driven organizations create greater, lasting impact.

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Happy Holidays from Cloud for Good

Cheers to a Great Year: Client Successes in 2018 Throughout the year, I have had the privilege of witnessing hundreds of incredible mission-driven organizations realize the...

Blockchain Is Reestablishing Trust In Nonprofits

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Bitcoin and hundreds of other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are on the rise, allowing a new form of...

Understanding Our Clients Through Volunteering

Being part of the Cloud for Good team means that helping nonprofits is an everyday part of our job. We have the tools and the team...

Top 5 Reasons to attend the NYC World Tour

Still on the fence about attending the World Tour in NYC on December 13th? Think no more, and read on for 5 fantastic reasons to attend!...

What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean For Nonprofit Organizations?

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Artificial Intelligence is an area of computer science that trains machines to perform tasks that...

A New Year for Salesforce Resolutions

This is my favorite time of the year. The holidays are bringing families together, and as the year ends it is the perfect opportunity to reflect...

Change Management: Understanding the Type and Drivers of Change

Change is inevitable and one of the main forces behind improvement, strength and progress. For nonprofits, change, especially in technology, can be a game-changer. I’m a...

Cloud for Good Ranked Number 418 on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™

Asheville, NC, August 15, 2018 – Cloud for Good today announced it ranked 418 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media,...

How Grant Management in Salesforce Can Improve Your Fundraising Strategy

Grant Management in Salesforce A grant is a sum of money given to an organization or individuals for a specific purpose. Securing grant funding can be...

Don’t Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration

Each Salesforce organization is housed at one of Salesforce’s data centers. Salesforce calls these groupings of clients instances and it is a good practice as a...

Audit Trail – A Hidden Gem

The Audit Trail helps you track the recent Setup changes that you and other administrators have made to your organization. Learn more....

Salesforce Administrators and Puppies

Too often, in my experience, I’ve had clients treat a Salesforce implementation as a discrete moment in time: “We wanted Salesforce, we got Salesforce, we have...

The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile

Chatter Publisher Publisher actions allow you to perform simple tasks such as creating child records from within the record’s Chatter feed. Read more about publisher....

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question?

When evaluating your needs and choosing to implement a CRM solution, I recommend starting by asking the five W’s: Who, What, Where, When and Why....

Custom Code: Are you ready?

It is an interesting dichotomy that while writing custom code allows you to manipulate the system in very sophisticated ways, every bit of custom code that...