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Talk To Your Data

Every day there should be a conversation that happens between you and the data inside of your Salesforce instance. Starting that conversation is not always easy

Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

If you’re a Salesforce admin or power user, listen up! There are some great community-developed Chrome extensions meant specifically to enhance the Salesforce user experience. Have

Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

How autolaunched flows can help your users, and how you can combine them with custom settings to make your life as an administrator easier.

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Last year, Rallybound produced their inaugural infographic: Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events. In keeping with this tradition, they have recently released their new infographic

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

Automate your email, mobile, and social marketing to ensure you reach the right people in your network with the right messaging at the right time to

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Apsona for Salesforce is an app available on the AppExchange. It is a supplement to your existing Salesforce that significantly

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Implementing a roadmap helps us to properly set expectations and follow a strategic path in order to get to those places we are growing. Here are

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Using the Salesforce Publisher Actions can help speed up how your users enter data, all while keeping it clean. Be careful, though--you'll want to think your

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

With a drag and drop user interface, Salesforce Visual Workflow allows you to automate a series of business process steps. Read why we are excited about

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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

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

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

Celebrate the Year of the Awesome Admin (or How Users and Stakeholders Can Win Their Salesforce Admin’s Heart)

Written by Cloud for Good Team There are many blogs out in the Salesforce ecosystem about being an Admin, a Developer, a Partner or other Salesforce

Grants Management in NPSP 3.0 Added to Nonprofits 101

We are in the process of updating and adding to our Nonprofits 101 manual - the Salesforce user manual for nonprofit organizations. We recently added an

Exciting Times To Be Part of the Salesforce Ecosystem

Written by Cloud for Good Team From where I am standing today, it is hard to rewind back to 8 years ago when I joined the

Giving Back – My Day Volunteering At Cradles to Crayons

Donating to a charity is a great way to ensure that their mission is accomplished, but there is something so much more rewarding about being able

Six Simple Steps to Improve Your Salesforce User Experience

When configuring your Salesforce org, it is important to present your data in a manner that makes it easy for your users to access and interpret.

Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2015!

In case you weren't able to attend Dreamforce, or if you were in attendance and missed seeing us, don't worry! We've got pictures from our events

Moving House: Steps for a Successful Data Migration

It doesn't matter if8ixn547AT you have 100 records or 1 million records, the data import phase of a project can seem like a daunting task. It's

How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology

Salesforce technology has played an increasingly prevalent role in the delivering of Zero to Three’s mission.

What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits?

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce brings over 150K companies and their customers together through the power of connective technology. There have been great blogs and videos released explaining how the

Keeping Your Data Safe: Protecting HIPAA with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Before my time at Cloud for Good, I worked for a medical transcription company as a Microsoft Network Administrator. Soon

Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

Written by Cloud for Good Team March 23, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good recently unveiled their latest technology offerings to the education sector with

Creating Actionable Data with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

Written by Cloud for Good Team In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator, we showed

How to Get the Most Out of Salesforce’s Nonprofit Summit

Written by Cloud for Good Team The first-ever Salesforce Nonprofit Summit is almost a month away! Below are some details on how you can join the amazing speakers, an inspiring

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Talk To Your Data

Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Introducing Social Customer Service

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

Latest Posts

Join Us at the Salesforce World Tour in New York!

Open Source, Open Hearts: Sprinting for the Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP)

Account Models in NPSP Added to Nonprofits 101

Celebrate the Year of the Awesome Admin (or How Users and Stakeholders Can Win Their Salesforce Admin’s Heart)

Grants Management in NPSP 3.0 Added to Nonprofits 101

Exciting Times To Be Part of the Salesforce Ecosystem

Giving Back – My Day Volunteering At Cradles to Crayons

Six Simple Steps to Improve Your Salesforce User Experience

Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2015!

Moving House: Steps for a Successful Data Migration

How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology

What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits?

Keeping Your Data Safe: Protecting HIPAA with Salesforce

Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

Creating Actionable Data with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator

How to Get the Most Out of Salesforce’s Nonprofit Summit