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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...

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...
Come See Us at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC!

Come See Us at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC!

The Salesforce World Tour is in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 28. There are many great sessions for nonprofits. We look forward to seeing you there!...
Connecting the Clouds with Marketing Cloud Connect

Connecting the Clouds with Marketing Cloud Connect

The newest update of Marketing Cloud Connect allows organizations to seamlessly connect their constituent data from Salesforce CRM with the communication, automation, and analytics tools in...
The Secret to A Successful Nonprofit EcoSystem

The Secret to A Successful Nonprofit EcoSystem

Integration is when your cloud apps can seamlessly share data between each other. When this happens, there is no need to log in and out of...
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Fundraising with Amazon Wish Lists

Does your nonprofit have a wish list of things they need donated? If you do then you’ll want to keep reading. It’s time to set up...