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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

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

The User Experience Differences Between Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and Raiser’s Edge

The User Experience Differences Between Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and Raiser’s Edge

The ability to deliver great user experiences is one of the strengths of Salesforce’s Nonprofit Cloud that makes it vastly superior to Blackbaud brand fundraising solutions
Agentforce for Nonprofits and Higher Education_ What You Need to Know

Agentforce for Nonprofits and Higher Education: What You Need to Know

Here are our first impressions and thoughts about Agentforce, Salesforce's newest suite of autonomous, more advanced, accurate, and intelligent AI agents, how it works, and its
Celebrating What Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work on National Certification Day

Celebrating What Makes Cloud for Good a Great Place to Work on National Certification Day

Written by Cloud for Good Team Today is Certification Nation Day, and for its tenth consecutive year Cloud for Good was recognized as a Great Place To

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Considerations for Migrating from NPSP to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: Understand the Impact of Your Data

Written by Cloud for Good Team Another new iPhone model has arrived, and for many of us that means switching over all our data, applications, and

OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

Written by Cloud for Good Team To OPM? Or n(O)PM? That is the question. No, that wasn’t the question that made it into Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, but

Dreamforce 2024_ Nonprofit Keynote Highlights_ Amplifying Your Mission and Impact with AI

Dreamforce 2024: Nonprofit Keynote Highlights: Amplifying Your Mission and Impact with AI

The Cloud for Good team at Salesforce’s highly-anticipated Dreamforce 2024 conference unpack the key insights, highlights, and product innovations on AI, data, and Nonprofit Cloud from
Dreamforce 2024_ Education Keynote Highlights_ Elevate Every Education Journey with AI + Data + Action

Dreamforce 2024: Education Keynote Highlights: Elevate Every Education Journey with AI + Data + Action

The Cloud for Good team at Salesforce's highly-anticipated Dreamforce 2024 conference unpack the key insights, highlights, and product innovations on AI, data, and Education Cloud from

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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

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
Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce

Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce

After months of planning and anticipation, Dreamforce ’14 has come and gone. We were inspired by keynotes, learned new things at hands-on training sessions, danced to
Dance Me To The End - 5 Tips for After Dreamforce

Dance Me To The End – 5 Tips for After Dreamforce

As with all good things, Dreamforce inevitably comes to an end, we all find our way back home, and for the briefest of moments, we have
4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready

4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready

This new Salesforce Analytics Cloud helps “everyday users” (not trained analysts) make informed decisions. However, implementing this technology would require a significant commitment from your organization.
Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity

Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity

There are some calls that go sour, some meetings where obstreperousness is abundant, and some that happen to fall on everyone’s bad day. These are key
How Dreamforce Changed Me

How Dreamforce Changed Me

For me, 2013 was the first year I was able to attend Dreamforce and I must say I had no clue what to expect. Sure I
White Paper: Becoming a Connected Organization

White Paper: Becoming a Connected Organization

Wondering about the Nonprofit Starter Pack or NGO Connect? We have done all the leg work for you! Download this free white paper to navigate the