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The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies - Cloud for Good

The Role of Data Warehouses in Nonprofit Technology Strategies

Written by Cloud for Good Team Written by Kestryl Lowrey and Stephen Earheart When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s dataβ€”the

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360 - Cloud for Good

Getting the Most From Technology With Salesforce Digital 360

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce Digital 360 has become the new industry standard for creating more meaningful customer experiences through digital-first solutions. Connecting the

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

What Can Marketing Cloud Do for Education?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Often campuses come to Cloud for Good with their data spread out across various systems, departments, and sometimes even spreadsheets.

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Apprenticeship Fund Announces Salesforce Investment in Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Achieve Partners’ newest deal backs solutions provider to help close talent gap in fast-growing Salesforce ecosystem August 19, 2021 [New

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Measuring Your Impact With Salesforce Tableau

Written by Cloud for Good Team You know you are making a difference in your communities, but do you know how to showcase that impact to

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work- Cloud for Good

How Culture Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good was recently recognized as one of the 2021 Best Small & Medium Workplacesβ„’ by Great Place to

Students working on laptops in a classroom. Text: SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF YOUR UNIVERSITY'S SALESFORCE ORG: GOVERNANCE

Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Leading Through Governance

Written by Cloud for Good Team In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good recently hosted a virtual roundtable diving into the implications for nonprofit organizations as it relates to the

How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot- Cloud for Good

How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot

Written by Cloud for Good Team Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Considering the massive investments

Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

Written by Cloud for Good Team July 12, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – IDG’s Insider Pro and Computerworld announce Cloud for Good as #2 on the 2021

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Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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
Burst your Silos and Become a Connected Nonprofit

Burst your Silos and Become a Connected Nonprofit

Functional silos or information silos refer to business processes or data systems that are incompatible or not integrated with other processes or systems. A silo is
Meet Us at the Salesforce World Tour in New York

Meet Us at the Salesforce World Tour in New York

The Salesforce World Tour in New York will be here on Dec. 15. Come out and see the Cloud for Good team and catch sessions by
Where Is My Salesforce Data?- Cloud for Good

Where Is My Salesforce Data?!

One of the most common complaints on the various forums that serve the nonprofit community is that data has somehow either mysteriously disappeared, or that it
You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances- Cloud for Good

You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances

When implementing a new Salesforce instance from an existing one, sometimes it’s not just the data you need to move. It’s the heavy stuff: Metadata. Without
Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone- Cloud for Good

Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone

Before assigning the System Administrator profile to a user, think carefully about the power and responsibility you are conveying on that user and try to right-size
Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance- Cloud for Good

Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance

So how do you go about identifying fields that are underutilized? The folks at Qandor developed a great app called Field Trip that is perfect for
Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book- Cloud for Good

Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good is proud to release the first edition of our Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book. Our E-Book provides an

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It- Cloud for Good

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It

Know that the clearer your vision, the more ready, supportive of, and willing for change, and the more you understand your own desired outcomes and metrics,