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Seven Complaints From Accountants That Salesforce Can Solve

Fundraisers and accountants have different views at times. Salesforce can help solve the seven most common complaints from accountants and we explain how in this post....

Engagement Plans and Levels Make Moves Management Work for You

Engagement Plans have been added to the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and will provide an even more seamless experience in managing your moves to cultivate donors...

Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

Choosing the best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector will ensure that you deliver the right message at the right time to your constituents. Cloud for Good has...

Lightning Experience: Winter 17 and Beyond

The Salesforce Winter '17 release brought many changes to the Lightning Experience. We cover some of those changes and what's to come in this post....

Destination Adoption: Get Your Users Using Salesforce

Adoption can be a challenge for some organizations. Here are some tips to help you increase it!...

Connected Nonprofits Use Technology to Manage Volunteers

Volunteers are often key to nonprofits' work but managing them with limited staff and budget can be a challenge. Utilizing technology effectively in volunteer management can...

Paying It Forward: Nonprofits Helping Nonprofits

Nonprofits are helping each other in the Salesforce community through the Power of Us HUB and now with the Solutions Exchange. Learn how you, too, can...

5 Nonprofit New Years Resolutions for Salesforce

The new year is always a time to resolve to do better, try harder, and move farther toward your goals, but we all know keeping your...

Process Builder: Tips and Tricks

Process Builder is one of the more powerful tools to be added to the Salesforce platform in recent years. Much of what Process Builder can do...

Make Salesforce Work for You: Workflows and Email Automations

Workflows take processes that can be standardized and automate them when certain criteria are met. This can be especially useful for development teams, as they can...

Make the Most of Salesforce Security: Added Assurance in a World of Compromises

Most organization’s choose Salesforce because of its reputation for reliability, and Salesforce does a great job of maintaining a high level of security on its servers,...

Process Builder and Cloud for Good Donation Split: A Case Study in Awesomeness

A case study in how to make Cloud for Good's Donation Split even better with Process Builder....

Which Salesforce Instance Am I On and Why Do I Care?

"Salesforce Instance" is one of those terms that many people assume they know - like what Wi-Fi stands for. Click here to know all about it....

Making Salesforce Chatter Work for Your Nonprofit

As a leader at your nonprofit - whether you are the Executive Director, Chief Information Officer, Salesforce Administrator, or motivated staff member, it’s up to you...

Salesforce Foundation Higher Education Summit 2015

Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the 3rd annual Salesforce Higher Education Summit at the University of Miami. I was joined by our...

Migrating from Common Ground to NGO Connect: Tips for Migration

Switching between two systems is always a tough process. The data migration, getting used to something new, having to change the way you and your team...