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Duke Health Development and Alumni Affairs: Creating Efficient Prospecting Through Salesforce

Using Salesforces Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), Duke Health Development and Alumni Affairs were both able to alleviate bottlenecks, improve collaboration, and ultimately raise more funds to...
Helping Veterans, Military and Their Families Connect with Their Communities Through Salesforce

Helping Veterans, Military and Their Families Connect with Their Communities Through Salesforce

Happy Veterans Day! Veterans Day was originally created as a day to reflect upon the heroism of those who died in service of our country. Today,...

Giving (Tues)Days: 24 Hour Fundraising Campaigns

Giving (Tues)Days: 24 Hour Fundraising Campaigns

Giving Day Campaigns A positive trend in the world today is the rise of charitable giving & altruism. In fact, in the US alone, we are...

Spooky Data Migrations: Demystified

Spooky Data Migrations: Demystified

With Halloween today, and all of the haunted houses, scary costumes, and horror nights at Theme Parks, I have already had my share of fright overload....

BEST OF SALESFORCE WINTER ’19 LIGHTNING FEATURES FOR NONPROFITS

BEST OF SALESFORCE WINTER ’19 LIGHTNING FEATURES FOR NONPROFITS

While it’s hard to believe it’s been nearly one year since my Winter ’18 post highlighting some of my favorite elements of the latest Salesforce release,...

State of Salesforce: Where Organizations are Looking to Take the Platform Over the Next Year

State of Salesforce: Where Organizations are Looking to Take the Platform Over the Next Year

Organization’s Goals Salesforce is constantly growing and evolving as the needs of organizations change. Over the next twelve months, organizations surveyed in Cloud for Good’s State...

Why Training is an Important Part of your User Adoption Strategy

Why Training is an Important Part of your User Adoption Strategy

Your Salesforce Journey I remember my first time walking through IKEA. It was magical. Every room was staged and decorated perfectly. Even their kitchen area inspired...

Nonprofit Cloud Keynote Highlights from Dreamforce 2018

Nonprofit Cloud Keynote Highlights from Dreamforce 2018

Nonprofit Cloud Keynote Highlights from Dreamforce 2018 Nonprofit organizations are learning the power of connecting their fundraising, programs and marketing management. Salesforce.org noticed the impact on...

Education Cloud Highlights from Dreamforce 2018 

Education Cloud Highlights from Dreamforce 2018 

#BREAKING – Education Cloud Highlights from Dreamforce 2018 Today at Dreamforce 2018, Salesforce.org kicked off the annual conference with a keynote on Education Cloud. With the sold-out...

The Future of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education

The Future of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education

What is Predictive Analytics?   We’ve all heard about artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and other forms of technology being the way of the future, but what does that mean...

Salesforce Winter '22 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Winter ’22 Release: What You Need to Know

In the Salesforce Winter ’22 Release, there are a number of intuitive new features, updates, and functionalities sure to benefit your Salesforce instance. Admins and Developers...

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Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research (OVPR)

Following the considerable success the University of Vermont (UVM) found using Salesforce Marketing and Service Cloud to safely and efficiently reopen their campus in the wake...

Dreamforce 2021 for the Nonprofit and Education Sectors: A Hybrid Experience

Dreamforce 2021 for the Nonprofit and Education Sectors: A Hybrid Experience

Dreamforce 2021 Some of our Goodies received an exclusive invitation to attend Dreamforce 2021 live in person! While this was undeniably exciting, it was also slightly...

Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap

Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap

Salesforce today is a much different company than it was when I first entered the ecosystem in 2005. I was what they call an “accidental admin”...

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Giving Tuesday 2021 is just 60 days away, but don’t stress, if you haven’t started planning yet, you still have time. When is Giving Tuesday 2021?...

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

2020 was, by all accounts, a landmark year for Cloud for Good.  Not only was it the company’s tenth anniversary, but it also marked the launch...