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Salesforce Trailhead Guides You to Success

Are you looking for training resources for your users? Check out Salesforce's free, fun interactive learning path, Trailhead....

How to Convince Your Management to Implement Salesforce

Tips to help you convince your organization's management that implementing Salesforce is the right move for your nonprofit. Be prepared by doing your research, citing use...
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A New Shift in Fundraising Strategy Could Actually Make Us Happier

There is a provocative change happening right before our eyes in the world of fundraising. Nonprofits are raising more money than ever before, and today’s nonprofits...
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Nonprofit Tech Strategies for the Season of Giving

Guest post By Sean Alpert, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Salesforce It’s hard to wrap your head around how large nonprofits have become, how many crucial...

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Igniting Education Reform Through Salesforce

The Salesforce platform is great for organizations who are working to reform education. Implementing Salesforce allows your organization to develop a strategic plan to manage your...
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Advocacy Tools for Salesforce

Advocacy organizations and organizations that are working to influence policy can choose from a number of cloud-based technology options to connect with constituents and policymakers. We’ve...

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Making Sense of the Marketing Cloud

Salesforce is an excellent tool for tracking information about constituents, programs, fundraising, and so much more. But when you want to add marketing functionality to your...

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Hundreds of Nonprofits Attended Salesforce World Tour in NYC

On November 18, Cloud for Good attended the Salesforce World Tour in NYC and had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of local nonprofits utilizing Salesforce...
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Chili for a Cause: Volunteer Time Off

The Hanover Chili Cookoff may look like just another festival or fair but at its core is a group of extremely dedicated volunteers who organize an...
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Receipting Canadian Tax Receipts

Are you recording your donations in Salesforce? Yes, that’s great! You’re probably using the Opportunities object to do so. But how are you generating tax receipts? As...

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Unified customer experience with Service Cloud

The need for intuitive customer experiences is at an all-time high. Your customers deserve an intelligently-designed system that will enable, not hinder, their experience with your...

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Options for Your Accounting Reconciliation with Salesforce

We often see a disconnect in nonprofit organizations between the fundraising process and the reconciliation of those details into finance. This means the valuable time from...

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Reducing technology debt with Salesforce

The Nonprofit Cloud is a tool that is designed to break down departmental silos by increasing collaboration across your organization. In this discussion, we’ll address reasons...

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Better Engagement for Donors and Volunteers

Learn how you can better engage your donors and volunteers throughout their entire journey with your organization. From newsletters, preference centers, and an omnichannel experience; we’ll...

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Finding a New Home for Your Fundraising

Are you thinking of migrating your organization’s fundraising technology from a legacy system, like Raiser’s Edge, to Salesforce? Let’s dive deep into the differences between your...

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Managing Student Success with Advisor Link

Using Salesforce to enroll students is a great choice but using Salesforce to help keep them at your institution is even better! Advisor Link is the...