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Connected Nonprofits Use Technology to Manage Volunteers
Volunteers are often key to nonprofits' work but managing them with limited staff and budget can be a challenge. Utilizing technology effectively in volunteer management can
Make Salesforce Work for You: Workflows and Email Automations
Workflows take processes that can be standardized and automate them when certain criteria are met. This can be especially useful for development teams, as they can
Functional silos or information silos refer to business processes or data systems that are incompatible or not integrated with other processes or systems. A silo is
Volunteer Time Off (VTO) is a growing trend as an employee benefit offered by companies. Volunteer time off provides benefits to both the company and the
Guarding Against Online Fraud on #GivingTuesday: 3 Expert Strategies
#GivingTuesday, one of the biggest fundraising days of the year, is coming up. This post contains tips to avoid fraud on #GivingTuesday and throughout the year.
Cloud for Good’s Can’t-Miss Experiences at Dreamforce 2025: Impact Sector Summit
Dreamforce offers thousands of sessions and experiences, but the Impact Sector Summit creates a unique space for our community to come together with a shared purpose.
What Marketing Cloud Advanced Can Do For Higher Education
Marketing Cloud Advanced gives institutions advanced tools to understand constituents, personalize engagement, optimize campaigns, strengthen relationships, and act on unified data insights. It’s a powerful way
Education Cloud’s New Data Models: Ushering in a New Era of Philanthropic Giving in the Education Sector
With a new generation of philanthropy tools for Education Cloud, Salesforce is addressing a critical need: helping advancement teams optimize and scale the work of fundraisers,
Using Salesforce Education Cloud as a Modern Student Information System
Salesforce Education Cloud offers a new path forward, not by replacing everything overnight, but by reimagining what the modern student information system (SIS) can be: modular,
Agentic Marketing with Salesforce: Exciting Marketing Announcements at Connections 2025
The Cloud for Good team had an opportunity to learn about Salesforce’s bold vision of agentic marketing with Agentforce and some exciting marketing announcements at Salesforce's
Doing More With Less: A Conversation With Salesforce On How Technology Can Power Your Organization Through Uncertainty
A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on how mission-driven organizations can leverage smart, scalable technology to deepen impact, drive efficiency, and future-proof their missions.
Reimagining the Student Experience: A Conversation with Salesforce on Building the Next-Gen Student Information System
A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on the future of student information systems (SIS), why legacy tools are no longer enough, and how AI
Using Salesforce for Performance Monitoring and Program Evaluation
Salesforce can be a powerful tool that can enable an effectively implemented evaluation. However, there are ways to use Salesforce for program evaluation successfully, and some
Idealware Report: The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits
When our friends at Idealware approached us with their plans to research and write a new report, The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits: A Report on
One of the most common complaints on the various forums that serve the nonprofit community is that data has somehow either mysteriously disappeared, or that it
You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances
When implementing a new Salesforce instance from an existing one, sometimes it’s not just the data you need to move. It’s the heavy stuff: Metadata. Without
Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone
Before assigning the System Administrator profile to a user, think carefully about the power and responsibility you are conveying on that user and try to right-size
