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Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

If you’re a Salesforce admin or power user, listen up! There are some great community-developed Chrome extensions meant specifically to enhance the Salesforce user experience. Have
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Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

How autolaunched flows can help your users, and how you can combine them with custom settings to make your life as an administrator easier.
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Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Last year, Rallybound produced their inaugural infographic: Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events. In keeping with this tradition, they have recently released their new infographic
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Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

Automate your email, mobile, and social marketing to ensure you reach the right people in your network with the right messaging at the right time to
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My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Apsona for Salesforce is an app available on the AppExchange.  It is a supplement to your existing Salesforce that significantly

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Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Implementing a roadmap helps us to properly set expectations and follow a strategic path in order to get to those places we are growing. Here are
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Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Using the Salesforce Publisher Actions can help speed up how your users enter data, all while keeping it clean. Be careful, though--you'll want to think your
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Introducing Social Customer Service

Introducing Social Customer Service

For organizations of any size, listening to constituents online doesn't only present the opportunity to uncover and address complaints and issues, but the opportunity to learn,
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New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

With a drag and drop user interface, Salesforce Visual Workflow allows you to automate a series of business process steps. Read why we are excited about
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Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Respecting a donor’s request for anonymity is critical to your relationship with your donors but your organization should retain the donor’s name and contact information when
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Salesforce Leads: Pros and Cons for Nonprofits

Salesforce Leads: Pros and Cons for Nonprofits

The Salesforce Lead standard object holds records representing individual people, typically as part of a sales process in the B2B (business-to-business) model. Using the Leads object
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Back to School: Research Methods 101 - Surveys

Back to School: Research Methods 101 – Surveys

Writing strong, concise survey questions will get you the data that you need. We've shared some best practices for collecting information from your constituents.
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Slice, Dice, and Dedupe Data - What's The Right Tool for Data Cleanup?

Slice, Dice, and Dedupe Data – What’s The Right Tool for Data Cleanup?

There are many tools out there to assist with data cleanup and it's not always easy to know which one to choose. We have explored several
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Implementing a Major Donor Strategy Using Salesforce Tools

Implementing a Major Donor Strategy Using Salesforce Tools

There are several ways to manage major donors in Salesforce. Depending on the size of your development team and formal fundraising processes utilized, your organization may
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Five Tips for Customizing the Lightning Experience

Five Tips for Customizing the Lightning Experience

Customizing Salesforce's Lightning Experience is more involved than just changing page layouts, but it's also more powerful. We share five tips to help you customize the
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Leveraging Salesforce and HEDA for Student Recruitment

Leveraging Salesforce and HEDA for Student Recruitment

In the face of a more competitive and increasingly diverse recruitment pool, it's important for higher education institutions to leverage recruitment data and analytics to identify
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3 Considerations for Your First Nonprofit Drip Program

3 Considerations for Your First Nonprofit Drip Program

Nonprofit drip programs shouldn't feel overwhelming. In fact, your first nonprofit drip program can be very simple. Let us help guide you through this process and
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How Women In Tech (WIT) Changed My Career

How Women In Tech (WIT) Changed My Career

Women in Tech (WIT) and Salesforce are helping more women go after technology focused careers. One of our Goodies shares her story with WIT and the
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Major Donors: Cultivating and Implementing A Salesforce Strategy

Major Donors: Cultivating and Implementing A Salesforce Strategy

Major donors and the strategies around managing these portfolios can be one of the trickiest beasts to tame. Let's explore how you can match highlights of
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Roll Up Your ROI with Campaign Hierarchies

Roll Up Your ROI with Campaign Hierarchies

Campaign Hierarchies use the Parent Campaign field to link any number of child campaigns to a single parent campaign. We provide step-by-step instructions to help you
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Looking Ahead to Talent for Good Cohort 2 - Cloud for Good

Looking Ahead to Talent for Good Cohort 2

Talent for Good has officially opened applications for Cohort 2 with a projected start date in summer of 2022.
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The Salesforce Nonprofit Summit: What to Know Before You Go - Cloud for Good

The Salesforce Nonprofit Summit: What to Know Before You Go

The second annual Salesforce Nonprofit Summit begins Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Here's what you need to know before you go.
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Building Strong Families + Powerful Communities with Illinois Action for Children + Salesforce - Cloud for Good

Building Strong Families + Powerful Communities with Illinois Action for Children + Salesforce

Over the course of three phases, Cloud for Good has partnered with Illinois Action for Children to help transform operations with Salesforce.
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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ - Cloud for Good

3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference.
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Great Place To Work certification badges. Text: CLOUD FOR GOOD CERTIFIED AS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK FOR THE 8TH YEAR

Cloud for Good Certified as Great Place to Work for the 8th Year in A Row

For the 8th straight year in the United States, and the very first time in Canada, Cloud for Good has been certified by Great Place to
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10th Annual Salesforce Education Summit: What You Need to Know

Join Cloud for Good at the 10th Annual Salesforce Education Summit. This completely virtual summit is free to attend and packed with 40+ sessions to inspire
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