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Top Five Reasons Your K-12 School Should Move to Salesforce

We've explored five reasons why K-12 schools are making the move to Salesforce. From breaking down silos to ensuring students receive the best education, the Salesforce...

Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

Organizations that help animals find forever homes are turning to Salesforce to track adopters, donors, volunteers, events and more in a central location. Managing all animal...

Facebook Fundraising Trends and the Expanding Nonprofit Technology Landscape

Facebook's waived donation fees and expanded fundraising and disaster relief tools have implications for the crowded nonprofit technology landscape in 2018....

The Benefits of Triggers in Salesforce

With Workflow Rules, Flows, and Process Builder at your fingertips, you may feel like code isn't necessary. However, there are times when code is needed over...

Using Webforms for Useful and Actionable Data

The information your nonprofit gets out of Salesforce is only as good as the information your organization puts into it. Use webforms to collect useful and...

#C4GGives – Cloud for Good Volunteer Week 2017

Cloud for Good held it's first ever Volunteer Week in 2017. Members of our team gave their time at area food banks and pantries. We not...

Creating Donor Journeys to Increase Fundraising

Significant changes to the digital communication landscape help savvy organizations pivot to better engage their supporters. Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Journey Builder allow sophisticated, intelligent donor journeys...

Having Fun and Playing Salesforce

While a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) platform is a must for many organizations, Salesforce can also be fun. We provide tips so your nonprofit can have...

How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes

If your organization sometimes feels like a rodent warren of haphazard business processes, there are some things you can do to make them better. Start by...

Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits

Each Salesforce release brings new and updated features to the platform. We explore some of the best Lightning features for nonprofits in the Winter '18 Release....

Power up your academic research center

Learn how you can leverage the Salesforce platform to power up your academic research center’s missions. We’ll discuss use cases for research centers interested in leveraging...

Better Engagement Across the Student Lifecycle

Learn how you can better engage your students throughout their entire journey with your university. From recruitment and admission to student success and giving back; we’ll...

Best Practices with Advancement on Salesforce

Your school relies on the generosity of alumni, your community, and friends of your university. Cloud for Good has spent over 10 years helping institutions utilize...

Reopening Your Campus with Salesforce

This year has been anything but ‘business as usual.’ Institutions want to open their doors to students, alumni, faculty, and staff – but how do you...

Improving the Executive Learner Experience with Commerce Cloud

Executive learners have come to expect a seamless experience from course selection to in-course learning. Find out how you can transform and modernize your participant’s course...

Recapping the Salesforce Winter ’21 Release

The Winter ’21 Release is here! System Administrators are going to love the new features designed to optimize user experience, including the general release of dynamic...