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Finding a Trusted Advisor

When you hire a consultant to help you with your Salesforce implementation, you’re hiring them because you have a problem you need help with whether it...

How Nonprofits Can Get Past Technology Culture Shock

We are in the midst of a major technology revolution and succeeding in this revolution does not mean consuming additional technology, or as many of our...

MS Excel Tools for Salesforce

As a Salesforce Admin, you have to be responsible for creating Salesforce data, maintaining that data and even extracting it so it can be analyzed and...

Tahoe Dreamin’ – The Advent of User Group Led Conferences

I had the pleasure of attending Tahoe Dreamin' – a Sacramento User Group sponsored event that took place at Lake Tahoe. This event was a jammed...

#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...

We Are A Great Place to Work ®

Cloud for Good today was Reviewed by its employees and Great Place to Work®. The Review highlights what makes its workplace culture great in areas like...

Just Do It! : Tips for Passing a Salesforce Certification Exam

I encourage everyone to take a certification exam. They are not only a stamp in your Salesforce passport, but they expose you to parts of Salesforce...

Connections 2015: Bringing the Marketing Cloud to Nonprofits

Connections just wrapped up in New York, and by far this was the best showing of the whole Marketing Cloud to the public. Click here to...

Have a Salesforce Question? The Hub May Have the Answer!

The Power of Us Hub is a valuable resource for any Salesforce user where one can find articles, groups, ask questions, and lots more to help...

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...

Are You Ready for Some Dreamforce?!

As an organization we like to provide as much useful and relevant information to the nonprofit community we serve. If you frequent our blog you will...