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Museum Membership Management, Ticketing, and Fundraising: A Journey from Blackbaud to Salesforce with the Guggenheim Museum

Museum Membership Management, Ticketing, and Fundraising: A Journey from Blackbaud to Salesforce with the Guggenheim Museum

Migrating from Blackbaud to Salesforce has made a profound impact on Guggenheim Museum's membership management, ticketing, and fundraising. Learn more in this customer success story.
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All Treats, No Tricks: 5 Cloud for Good Partners Sweetening the Nonprofit and Education Spaces

These five Cloud for Good partners offer solutions as sweet as candy for your nonprofit and education needs.
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Salesforce Data Cloud for Higher Education Advancement

Data Cloud for higher education advancement unlocks invaluable insights and analytics that can help drive data-driven decisions.
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End-Of-Year Strategies: Keeping Donors Engaged & Giving Featuring CARE

We all know end-of-year giving reigns supreme, so let’s dive into the key strategies you need to maximize fundraising this time of the year.
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Cloud for Good Response to the Israel – Hamas War

Cloud for Good has and will always stand for the human rights of the innocent. As such, we wanted to provide resources on how you can
Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: What You Need to Know About Fundraising & Outcome Management

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: What You Need to Know About Fundraising & Outcome Management

The Winter '24 Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud release features highly anticipated updates to Fundraising and Outcome Management apps. Learn more here.
Salesforce Winter ’24 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Winter ’24 Release: What You Need to Know

Cloud for Good breaks down the exciting new features, key highlights, and most impactful enhancements of Salesforce’s Winter ‘24 release!
Cultivating Care with CK Family Services Through Salesforce Program and Case Management

Cultivating Care with CK Family Services Through Salesforce Program and Case Management

Cloud for Good has helped CK Family Services leverage Salesforce to create a reliable system that can scale alongside the organization's mounting needs.
Dreamforce 2023: Public Sector Keynote Instant Reaction

Dreamforce 2023: Public Sector Keynote Instant Reaction

Cloud for Good brings you instant reactions from the Dreamforce 2023 public sector keynote address from industry expert Kristin Kiester.

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Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

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 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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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.
Salesforce can Help with US Tax Receipts for Donors

Salesforce can Help with US Tax Receipts for Donors

Donors are crucial to your nonprofit's success. They are required to have a written acknowledgement of any single contribution over $250 to claim it on their
Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap - Cloud for Good

Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce today is a much different company than it was when I first entered the ecosystem in 2005. I was

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021 - Cloud for Good

Save the Date: Giving Tuesday 2021

Written by Cloud for Good Team Giving Tuesday 2021 is just 60 days away, but don’t stress, if you haven’t started planning yet, you still have

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities - Cloud for Good

How Cloud for Good Gives Back To Our Communities

Written by Cloud for Good Team 2020 was, by all accounts, a landmark year for Cloud for Good.  Not only was it the company’s tenth anniversary,

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies - Cloud for Good

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

Written by Cloud for Good Team Written by Kestryl Lowrey and Stephen Earheart When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s data—the

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360 - Cloud for Good

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce Digital 360 has become the new industry standard for creating more meaningful customer experiences through digital-first solutions. Connecting the

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Often campuses come to Cloud for Good with their data spread out across various systems, departments, and sometimes even spreadsheets.