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Ideas and strategies to help purpose-driven organizations create greater, lasting impact.

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Connections 2015: Bringing the Marketing Cloud to Nonprofits

Connections just wrapped up in New York, and by far this was the best showing of the whole Marketing Cloud to the public. Click here to...

Have a Salesforce Question? The Hub May Have the Answer!

The Power of Us Hub is a valuable resource for any Salesforce user where one can find articles, groups, ask questions, and lots more to help...

Handling Donations Made via Third-Party Organizations

It is common for nonprofit organizations to receive gifts from donors made through third-party organizations. These third party organizations might be the United Way, a community...

Are You Ready for Some Dreamforce?!

As an organization we like to provide as much useful and relevant information to the nonprofit community we serve. If you frequent our blog you will...

Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields

Roll-up summaries are a powerful tool within Salesforce to help you analyze your data without running a summary report. They can give you data specific to...

Tracking In-Kind Gifts in Salesforce

Let’s say you’re already tracking donations in Salesforce, and everything is going smoothly. But now a donor wants to make an in-kind gift to your organization....

Navigating NGO Connect Batch Upload

Though we’d all love for all vendors to have seamless integrations with Salesforce, the truth is some of the vendors nonprofits works with do not. When...

Make Those Moves and Track Them Too: Salesforce Moves Management

Moves management is the process of moving a prospective donor from cultivation to solicitation. Learn how your Salesforce database can provide an essential backbone for your...

What Can We Learn From the Health Care Community?

At Cloud for Good, we have our own version of what is called a M & M Conference in the healthcare industry (Morbidity and Mortality Conference-...

Data Management Tips for the Lone Wolf Admin

As a solo administrator, you’re a lone wolf, but it’s a big, dangerous world out there. The time to get smarter about managing your organization’s data...

Power up your academic research center

Learn how you can leverage the Salesforce platform to power up your academic research center’s missions. We’ll discuss use cases for research centers interested in leveraging...

Better Engagement Across the Student Lifecycle

Learn how you can better engage your students throughout their entire journey with your university. From recruitment and admission to student success and giving back; we’ll...

Best Practices with Advancement on Salesforce

Your school relies on the generosity of alumni, your community, and friends of your university. Cloud for Good has spent over 10 years helping institutions utilize...

Reopening Your Campus with Salesforce

This year has been anything but ‘business as usual.’ Institutions want to open their doors to students, alumni, faculty, and staff – but how do you...

Improving the Executive Learner Experience with Commerce Cloud

Executive learners have come to expect a seamless experience from course selection to in-course learning. Find out how you can transform and modernize your participant’s course...

Recapping the Salesforce Winter ’21 Release

The Winter ’21 Release is here! System Administrators are going to love the new features designed to optimize user experience, including the general release of dynamic...