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How Nonprofits Can Get Past Technology Culture Shock
We are in the midst of a major technology revolution and succeeding in this revolution does not mean consuming additional technology, or as many of our
Seeing vs Doing: Understanding Learning Styles for Successful Training
Identifying learning styles among your users doesn’t need to involve having each user take a quiz or survey. You can likely identify some personality traits or
Everyone at Cloud for Good is passionate about nonprofits. I love hearing about all the different organizations everyone is involved with - the variety allows us
Harness the Power of Your Constituent Network with Relationship Tracking in NPSP
Relationships as a general idea are fundamental to Salesforce. After all, Salesforce is a CRM – or constituent relationship management – tool. Let's explore how to
Data Segmentation: Categorize Your Constituents With Salesforce
There are many ways to categorize your data. After you understand how you’d like to categorize your constituents, the next step is thinking about how to
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Handling Donations Made via Third-Party Organizations
It is common for nonprofit organizations to receive gifts from donors made through third-party organizations. These third party organizations might be the United Way, a community
Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields
Roll-up summaries are a powerful tool within Salesforce to help you analyze your data without running a summary report. They can give you data specific to
Let’s say you’re already tracking donations in Salesforce, and everything is going smoothly. But now a donor wants to make an in-kind gift to your organization.
Though we’d all love for all vendors to have seamless integrations with Salesforce, the truth is some of the vendors nonprofits works with do not. When
