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Salesforce can Help with US Tax Receipts for Donors
Donors are crucial to your nonprofit's success. They are required to have a written acknowledgement of any single contribution over $250 to claim it on their
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
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
Data cleanliness in Salesforce is important. Explore these tips to keep your data clean throughout the year and kick-off your spring cleaning with the most recent
Colleges and universities implementing the Salesforce platform have a wealth of options for building a system that supports every department on campus. The Higher Education Data
Webinar Recap: Unboxing the Nonprofit Success Pack with Lightning
On March 9, 2017, Cloud for Good hosted a webinar covering the Nonprofit Success Pack with Lightning. This post offers resources to help your organization get
Create Emails That Gain Traction With Your Constituents
Get more traction with emails and communications to your constituents. Learn how to create emails that will get higher conversions rates and improve the actions your
Good data leads to more self-awareness and an increasing ability to better steer the nonprofit organization toward its mission. Jeff Rule shares his insights on becoming
Put donor engagement plans to work for your organization. Utilize Engagement Plans in the Nonprofit Success Pack to assist with your fundraising efforts.
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.
