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Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit, and Higher Education Sessions, Roundtables, and Events

Cloud for Good has created a dynamic, immersive experience at Dreamforce 2025 designed to connect, educate, and inspire nonprofit, higher ed, and public sector Trailblazers....

Education Cloud Summit: Dreamforce2U

Education Cloud Summit: Dreamforce2U Shaping the Future of Education with Salesforce Please save the date for this special event highlighting key updates from Dreamforce and upcoming...

Salesforce’s Approach to Reimagining the Student Information System: A Learner-Centered and AI-Powered System

Salesforce, with support from Cloud for Good, is reimagining what a SIS can and should be by taking the power of a CRM and combining it...

Revenue Cloud in the Impact Sector: Simplifying Revenue Management for Mission-Driven Organizations

Revenue Cloud is opening new possibilities for nonprofits and higher education institutions alike. When combined with Nonprofit Cloud and Education Cloud, it can help organizations break...

The Strategic Value of a Technology Roadmap for Higher Education Technology Transformations

A technology roadmap provides higher education leaders with a clear, intentional path forward....

Cloud for Good’s Can’t-Miss Experiences at Dreamforce 2025: Impact Sector Summit

Dreamforce offers thousands of sessions and experiences, but the Impact Sector Summit creates a unique space for our community to come together with a shared purpose....

What Marketing Cloud Advanced Can Do For Higher Education

Marketing Cloud Advanced gives institutions advanced tools to understand constituents, personalize engagement, optimize campaigns, strengthen relationships, and act on unified data insights. It’s a powerful way...

Education Cloud’s New Data Models: Ushering in a New Era of Philanthropic Giving in the Education Sector

With a new generation of philanthropy tools for Education Cloud, Salesforce is addressing a critical need: helping advancement teams optimize and scale the work of fundraisers,...

Volunteer Management Reimagined: Salesforce’s Native Solution for Nonprofits Has Arrived

Volunteer Management for Nonprofit Cloud is finally here - and it’s a big deal....

Using Salesforce Education Cloud as a Modern Student Information System

Salesforce Education Cloud offers a new path forward, not by replacing everything overnight, but by reimagining what the modern student information system (SIS) can be: modular,...

12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard

Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013....

Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce

There’s a lot of talk about Best Practice in the nonprofit sector, and having consulted on projects large and small, I want to take moment to...

Better Living Through Training and Documentation

As a system administrator, it’s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created....

Ensuring Training Success

Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ...

Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to...

Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again

You choose a platform, signed with an awesome implementation partner who can translate your needs into technology, and you are extremely excited to get started. Wait…...