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Before Your AI Investment Pays Off, Your Data Has to Be Ready.

Every credit union leader I work with right now is navigating the same tension: the board wants an AI strategy, the technology budget isn't unlimited, and

Your CRM Should Grow With You. BBCRM cannot.

For nonprofits still running on Blackbaud CRM, the question is no longer whether to move. It is how soon, and how well.

Stratus for Blackbaud Migration: A Smarter Path to Salesforce

Nonprofits and higher education institutions are outgrowing legacy Blackbaud systems. Explore why organizations are moving to Salesforce and how Cloud for Good supports a structured, strategic

Agentforce Education Migration: Helping Your Student Data Work Smarter

Academic records. Advising notes. Financial aid flags. Engagement history. Years of it, carefully built across your Salesforce environment by the people who show up every day

From Go-Live to Real Value: What Credit Unions Actually Need From an FSC Implementation

See how the right FSC implementation strategy helps credit unions unify member data, support AI initiatives, improve adoption, and deliver consistent service experiences.

Why Now Is the Time to Leave Blackbaud and Build a Smarter Salesforce Foundation

Nonprofits and higher education advancement teams are outgrowing legacy fundraising systems. Learn why now is the right time to move from Blackbaud to Salesforce and build

SALESFORCE HEADLESS 360: Busting the Myths Around Headless 360

The concerns are understandable. The answers are more reassuring than most organizations expect.

Salesforce for Healthcare: Improving Patient Engagement and Care Coordination

Healthcare organizations today operate in a highly digital environment. From electronic health records to scheduling systems and billing platforms

What Is Salesforce Headless 360 and Why Does It Matter

A new capability is available to Salesforce organizations, and it is generating a lot of conversation.

The Digital Government Imperative: Why Salesforce is Transforming State and Local Services

State and local agencies are at an inflection point. Citizens expect Amazon-grade experiences. Budgets are shrinking. Legacy systems are holding progress hostage.

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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

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

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

#BestTeamEver: A True Story of Virtual Working

“So what does that mean that your company is virtual? Is your paycheck virtual too?” Those were the first questions my dad asked me when I

Before You Build the House: Preparing to Implement Salesforce

Start with a budget! With Salesforce, a lot of functionality is available right “out of the box” for the base price. There are some things, like

Seeing vs Doing: Understanding Learning Styles for Successful Training

Identifying learning styles among your users doesn’t need to involve having each user take a quiz or survey. You can likely identify some personality traits or

A Nonprofit Guide to the Salesforce AppExchange

We have been hosting Apps for Good webinars over the last couple of years and we have written many great articles about the different apps that

Creating a Data Map When You’re Lost in Data!

A data map is a great way to document the process of uncovering the secrets of a data set. We use them for so many different

Volunteer Time Off: Engineering the Future

Everyone at Cloud for Good is passionate about nonprofits. I love hearing about all the different organizations everyone is involved with - the variety allows us

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Before Your AI Investment Pays Off, Your Data Has to Be Ready.

Your CRM Should Grow With You. BBCRM cannot.

Stratus for Blackbaud Migration: A Smarter Path to Salesforce

Agentforce Education Migration: Helping Your Student Data Work Smarter

From Go-Live to Real Value: What Credit Unions Actually Need From an FSC Implementation

Why Now Is the Time to Leave Blackbaud and Build a Smarter Salesforce Foundation

SALESFORCE HEADLESS 360: Busting the Myths Around Headless 360

Salesforce for Healthcare: Improving Patient Engagement and Care Coordination

What Is Salesforce Headless 360 and Why Does It Matter

The Digital Government Imperative: Why Salesforce is Transforming State and Local Services

Latest Posts

Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

Lightning Experience: Winter 17 and Beyond

Destination Adoption: Get Your Users Using Salesforce

Connected Nonprofits Use Technology to Manage Volunteers

Paying It Forward: Nonprofits Helping Nonprofits

5 Nonprofit New Years Resolutions for Salesforce

Process Builder: Tips and Tricks

Make Salesforce Work for You: Workflows and Email Automations

Burst your Silos and Become a Connected Nonprofit

Meet Us at the Salesforce World Tour in New York

#BestTeamEver: A True Story of Virtual Working

Before You Build the House: Preparing to Implement Salesforce

Seeing vs Doing: Understanding Learning Styles for Successful Training

A Nonprofit Guide to the Salesforce AppExchange

Creating a Data Map When You’re Lost in Data!

Volunteer Time Off: Engineering the Future

What Is Salesforce Headless 360 and Why Does It Matter