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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,

The Top Ways Technology Expands Access To Donor-Advised Funds

Thanks to technology and digital platforms, access to donor-advised funds (DAFs) has expanded for a wider spectrum of donors.

Agentic Marketing with Salesforce: Exciting Marketing Announcements at Connections 2025

The Cloud for Good team had an opportunity to learn about Salesforce’s bold vision of agentic marketing with Agentforce and some exciting marketing announcements at Salesforce's

Doing More With Less: A Conversation With Salesforce On How Technology Can Power Your Organization Through Uncertainty

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on how mission-driven organizations can leverage smart, scalable technology to deepen impact, drive efficiency, and future-proof their missions.

Reimagining the Student Experience: A Conversation with Salesforce on Building the Next-Gen Student Information System

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on the future of student information systems (SIS), why legacy tools are no longer enough, and how AI

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Meet Cloud for Good at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC

On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, come meet Cloud for Good at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC. We'll be in the Customer Success Expo to

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

The Connected Nonprofit

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

Make Donor Engagement Plans Work for You

Put donor engagement plans to work for your organization. Utilize Engagement Plans in the Nonprofit Success Pack to assist with your fundraising efforts.

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!

When Silence Is the System: Closing the Communication Gaps in Foster Care

Silence has failed the foster care system on both ends. On one end is the person who decided they might be ready to foster a child.

Moving Beyond Point-to-Point Integration: Why Salesforce Is a Powerful Alternative to Lingk for Higher Education

Joy Asakawa, Director of Sales, EDU For years, higher education institutions have relied on integration platforms and middleware solutionslike Lingk to move critical data between their

The AI Your Team Will Actually Use Is Already in Slack

AI adoption stalls when tools sit outside the workflow. Here is why Cloud for Good treats Slack as the employee AI productivity layer to start with.

Agentforce for Higher Education: Every Student Deserves a Timely Answer

An admissions officer managing hundreds of inquiries from prospective students. An academic advisor carrying a caseload that makes genuine support nearly impossible. An advancement officer trying to

Agentforce Nonprofit: Your Next Team Member Does Not Burn Out

Agentforce Nonprofit brings purpose-built AI agents into your Salesforce CRM. See how Cloud for Good implements it around your mission, not a template.

Salesforce Agentforce for Health: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Matters Now

Administrative overhead consumes nearly 25% of U.S. healthcare spending. Discover how Salesforce Agentforce for Health provides digital labor at scale. Cloud for Good maps out what

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

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

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

What Marketing Cloud Advanced Can Do For Higher Education

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

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

Using Salesforce Education Cloud as a Modern Student Information System

The Top Ways Technology Expands Access To Donor-Advised Funds

Agentic Marketing with Salesforce: Exciting Marketing Announcements at Connections 2025

Doing More With Less: A Conversation With Salesforce On How Technology Can Power Your Organization Through Uncertainty

Reimagining the Student Experience: A Conversation with Salesforce on Building the Next-Gen Student Information System

Latest Posts

Meet Cloud for Good at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC

Webinar Recap: Unboxing the Nonprofit Success Pack with Lightning

Create Emails That Gain Traction With Your Constituents

The Connected Nonprofit

Make Donor Engagement Plans Work for You

Seven Complaints From Accountants That Salesforce Can Solve

Engagement Plans and Levels Make Moves Management Work for You

Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

Lightning Experience: Winter 17 and Beyond

Destination Adoption: Get Your Users Using Salesforce

When Silence Is the System: Closing the Communication Gaps in Foster Care

Moving Beyond Point-to-Point Integration: Why Salesforce Is a Powerful Alternative to Lingk for Higher Education

The AI Your Team Will Actually Use Is Already in Slack

Agentforce for Higher Education: Every Student Deserves a Timely Answer

Agentforce Nonprofit: Your Next Team Member Does Not Burn Out

Salesforce Agentforce for Health: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Matters Now