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The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

When an organization’s critical fundraising facilitators are weakened, Cloud for Good Direct Response Services helps strengthen those efforts
7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

As Cloud for Good forges new paths in the higher education and nonprofit spaces in 2023, several trends have begun to catch our eye.
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Supporting Turkey and Syria in Their Time of Need

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Turkey and Syria, killing thousands and injuring tens of thousands more. Here's how you can help.
Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement

Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement: What’s Next for Salesforce and Social Media Management?

Planning a migration from Social Studio or looking for a new platform? Sprout Social puts data at your fingertips in one central location.
What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

The value of Slack is generated from its ability to connect people, tools, and operations, creating a repository of accessible knowledge.
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Salesforce Spring ’23 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce is flying into the New Year with even more features to enhance your users’ experience in the Spring '23 release.
Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

No matter which CRM solution your organization implements, the overall success of the implemented technology is tied directly to your partner.
Incorporating Mobile Solutions Into Your Marketing Strategy

Incorporating Mobile Solutions Into Your Marketing Strategy

Incorporating mobile solutions into your nonprofit or higher education marketing strategy is a vital key to modern marketing success.
maximizing Your Advancement Investment with Salesforce

Maximizing Your Advancement Investment with Salesforce

Salesforce represents a shift in the momentum for so many institutions looking to modernize and build for the future of advancement success.

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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
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
Take Note! Migrating Notes to New Content Notes in Salesforce

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

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

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

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?

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: 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.
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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,
Theory of Change: Metrics and Monitoring

Theory of Change: Metrics and Monitoring

Theory of Change is an organization’s set of beliefs and hypotheses about how their activities lead to outcomes that contribute to the overall mission and vision
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Recapping #GivingTuesday 2020 with Salesforce Social Studio

Written by Cloud for Good Team Giving Tuesday, a globally recognized day of giving, falls on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. In 2020, the day fell

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Salesforce Announces Retirement of NGO Connect & Why You Should Be Excited

Written by Cloud for Good Team In January 2019, Salesforce made the decision to acquire roundCorner, bringing NGO Connect (NGOC), Foundation Connect, and roundData into their

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Cloud for Good Accepted As A Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C Partner

Written by Cloud for Good Team December 1, 2020 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good, a certified B Corp and Salesforce.org 2020 Nonprofit Consulting Partner of

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Happy Thanksgiving from Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good has much to be thankful for this year.  Considering the challenges 2020 has thrown everyone’s way, we want to take a moment

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Trailblazers Together: The Future of Events

Written by Cloud for Good Team 2020 has been a year of massive change, and for marketing that has meant finding new, creative ways to engage

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Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Written by Cloud for Good Team On average, your constituents receive around 121 emails every day, including emails from their favorite restaurants, stores, or even meeting