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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...

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...

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...

Take Note! Migrating Notes to New Content Notes in Salesforce

The Notes & Attachments related list is on the way out. Content Notes and Files will replace these features, and both have major advantages over the...

Why Chatter is Great for Nonprofits

Chatter is a social networking tool that lives inside Salesforce and helps people collaborate with colleagues. Here are some ideas for how you can start using...

Pre-Checking: Good for Baggage, Bad for Email Opt-In

In the case of email opting-in, it pays to hold off on pre-checking any opt-in actions. The theory behind this restraint is that constituents should take...

Salesforce Analytics 101: Report Types

When you’re creating a Salesforce report, the first thing you have to choose, before you even get to the report builder, is the Report Type. The...

Is a Salesforce Community the Right Fit for Your Nonprofit?

If you can find value in sharing your Salesforce data with constituents, a Salesforce Community might be right for you! Salesforce Communities expand your database beyond...

Planned Gifts: Tips and Tricks for Managing in Salesforce

Planned gifts, or legacy gifts, are something we often discuss with clients who use or are looking to use Salesforce to manage fundraising data and processes....

8 Tips for Creating a Great Annual Report

The process of developing your organization’s Annual Report should be a satisfying task of reviewing progress toward your goals, deciding on photos and profiles to include,...

Salesforce.Org Acquired roundCorner, What’s Next?

Nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions continue to choose Salesforce to manage their programs, admission, fundraising, marketing and everything in between. Salesforce has become the gold...

Cloud for Good Secures Spot on 100 Top Impact Companies

Asheville, NC, January 8, 2019 – on January 7, Cloud for Good was ranked 51 on Real Leaders, Big Path Capital and B Lab’s 2019 list of...

Happy Holidays from Cloud for Good

Cheers to a Great Year: Client Successes in 2018 Throughout the year, I have had the privilege of witnessing hundreds of incredible mission-driven organizations realize the...

Blockchain Is Reestablishing Trust In Nonprofits

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Bitcoin and hundreds of other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are on the rise, allowing a new form of...

Understanding Our Clients Through Volunteering

Being part of the Cloud for Good team means that helping nonprofits is an everyday part of our job. We have the tools and the team...