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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,...
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The Top Ways Technology Expands Access To Donor-Advised Funds

Thanks to technology and digital platforms, access to donor-advised funds (DAFs) has expanded for a wider spectrum of donors....
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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...
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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....
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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...
Salesforce Summer '25 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Summer ’25 Release: What You Need to Know

Learn about the most important highlights in Security & Permissions enhancements, automation and screen flow updates, and more in Salesforce's Summer '25 Release....
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Less Admin, More Impact: How Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Transforms Grantmaking

Through empowering grantmakers to streamline operations, enhance transparency, and make data-informed decisions that amplify impact, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is transforming grantmaking processes for organizations....
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7 Key Advancement Insights From CASE Drive 2025

The importance of being data-driven, AI, enhancing fundraising efforts, the need for innovative solutions, strategic planning, and more took center stage at CASE Drive 2025, and...
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Why Salesforce Outpaces the Marketing AI Competition: Marketing Cloud vs HubSpot

In this post, we compare Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s AI for marketing with HubSpot’s AI for marketing, diving deep into their features, performance, scalability, and results....
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Where Purpose Meets Excellence: A Certified Great Place to Work

By continuing to elevate our people, listening and adapting, collaborating, and creating experiences that resonate, we remain dedicated to not only being a great place to...
Discover Donor Giving Power Through Wealth Screening

Discover Donor Giving Power Through Wealth Screening

Prospecting within your existing database of constituents is a great place to start your fundraising efforts, but it can be difficult to identify their capacity to...

Nonprofits and Recurring Donations

Nonprofits and Recurring Donations

It has been said that the best things come in small packages and the same can be said of small donations. In particular, ones that are...

Engage Your Constituents with Text Messaging

Engage Your Constituents with Text Messaging

Communication in a Digital Age Before coming to Cloud for Good, I worked for an organization that provides multiple income and food support services to low-income...

Which Pardot edition do I choose?

Which Pardot edition do I choose?

When I bought my first car, I hemmed and hawed over which Toyota Celica I wanted, the basic GT or the GT-S. Not to mention all...

Salesforce Advisor Link: A Game Changer for Higher Ed

We hear it time and time again – the higher education landscape is changing. Colleges and universities are competing for the same students with slimmer budgets...

Meet Cloud for Good at WITness Success

Meet Cloud for Good at WITness Success

WITness Success is a 1½ day, community-led career development event in Colorado where woman in the Salesforce ecosystem meet to learn, network, grow, get inspired and...