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Better Living Through Training and Documentation - Cloud for Good

Better Living Through Training and Documentation

As a system administrator, it’s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created.
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Ensuring Training Success - Cloud for Good

Ensuring Training Success

Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ
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Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships - Cloud for Good

Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to
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Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again - Cloud for Good

Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again

You choose a platform, signed with an awesome implementation partner who can translate your needs into technology, and you are extremely excited to get started. Wait…
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The Power of US Hub - Cloud for Good

The Power of US Hub

Are you sometimes confused about where to go to get the answers you need in using Salesforce at your nonprofit? As you may have discovered there
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Cloud for Good Goes to Washington for NTC14 - Cloud for Good

Cloud for Good Goes to Washington for NTC14

It’s that time of year everyone - the Nonprofit Technology Network has opened up voting for proposed sessions at the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference. We at
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Email to Case - An Overview - Cloud for Good

Email to Case – An Overview

In Salesforce, the Case Object is often used to track a constituent issue or problem that needs resolution. Just like anything else in Salesforce, it can
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Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Dreamforce

Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Dreamforce

I have been inspired by Dreamforce every year since 2005, so I decided to take the majority of the Cloud for Good team to Dreamforce this
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Choosing the Right Email Provider for Your Salesforce - Cloud for Good

Choosing the Right Email Provider for Your Salesforce

We reviewed the common email service providers who offer Salesforce integration including MyEmma, VerticalReponse, iContact, ExactTarget, and MailChimp.
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Choosing Between the NPSP and Standard EE - Cloud for Good

Choosing Between the NPSP and Standard EE

When you apply for the Power of Us grant you need to select between two trial configurations the EE + NPSP (“Pre-configured for Donor Management”) or
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Advocacy Tools for Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Advocacy organizations and organizations that are working to influence policy can choose from a number of cloud-based technology options to

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Making Sense of the Marketing Cloud

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce is an excellent tool for tracking information about constituents, programs, fundraising, and so much more. But when you want

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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

Written by Cloud for Good Team Are you recording your donations in Salesforce? Yes, that’s great! You’re probably using the Opportunities object to do so. But how

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Salesforce.org Announces A New Philanthropic Brand

Salesforce.org announces a unified brand for Salesforce Foundation and Salesforce.org. A brand that more accurately describes their long-term goals: a nonprofit, social enterprise dedicated to Salesforce’s
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#NoCodeNovember – Our Favorite Salesforce Features

In honor of #NoCodeNovember, the Cloud for Good team has compiled a list of 11 features in Salesforce that require NO code! Check out this post
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Join Us at the Salesforce World Tour in New York!

On November 18. 2015, the Salesforce World Tour is going to New York and Cloud for Good will be there! We're presenting in the Admin Zone
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Open Source, Open Hearts: Sprinting for the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP)

Cloud for Good had the opportunity to send two of our team members to participate in the second ever Nonprofit Starter Pack Sprint (#NPSPsprint). A room
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Account Models in NPSP Added to Nonprofits 101

We are continuing to add to and update our Nonprofits 101 manual - the Salesforce user manual for nonprofit organizations. This article will over what account
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Celebrating 15 Years of Cloud for Good

Celebrating 15 Years of Cloud for Good

To celebrate 15 years of Cloud for Good, we’re taking a look at a collection of numbers and stories (fifteen of them in total) to reflect
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CARE + Cloud for Good_ A Trusted Long-Term Partnership in Technology Transformation

CARE + Cloud for Good: A Trusted Long-Term Partnership in Technology Transformation

Cloud for Good has been privileged to build a strong longstanding relationship with CARE and be CARE’s trusted partner on technology needs, support its long-term success
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Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Salesforce Data Cloud for Direct Response Customers

Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Salesforce Data Cloud for Direct Response Customers

For years, nonprofits have relied on data warehouses to manage the large volumes of data required for effective direct mail campaigns, but now Salesforce has us
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Lessons Learned from Giving Tuesday_ Maximize Your Success with Omnichannel Marketing Best Practices

Lessons Learned from Giving Tuesday: Maximize Your Success with Omnichannel Marketing Best Practices

In this blog, we’ll explore how to create and deliver standout Giving Tuesday marketing campaigns that boost donor engagement and maximize Giving Tuesday fundraiser results with
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Considerations for Migrating from NPSP to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: Identify the Impact to Your AppExchange Partners and Technology Stack Integrations

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) has been a reliable and effective solution for the nonprofit space, but many nonprofit organizations

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Goodies Give Back: Celebrating the Season of Giving Year-Round

Goodies Give Back: Celebrating the Season of Giving Year-Round

Written by Cloud for Good Team The season of giving has always been a time for us to pause, count our blessings, and reflect on what

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