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Cloud for Good Named on Fortune’s 2020 Best Small & Medium Workplaces + Comparably’s Best Companies for Work-Life Balance Lists

Written by Cloud for Good Team October 16, 2020 [Asheville, NC]  – Cloud for Good, a certified BCorp and Salesforce.org 2020 Nonprofit Consulting Partner of the

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Cloud for Good Awarded Salesforce.org Nonprofit Consulting Partner of the Year for Second Year in a Row

Written by Cloud for Good Team October 12, 2020 [Asheville, NC] –Cloud for Good was awarded the Salesforce.org 2020 AMER Consulting Partner of the Year – Nonprofit

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Getting Over Raiser’s Edge with Salesforce + Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Getting Over Raiser’s Edge with Salesforce + Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Taking a strategic approach to transforming their technology, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary partnered with Cloud for Good in their migration from Raiser’s Edge to Salesforce Nonprofit
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How My Hispanic Heritage Empowered My Salesforce Journey

Written by Cloud for Good Team As we continue to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, and cherish Hispanic culture year-round, I find myself reflecting on the journey

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Predicting Summer Melt with Salesforce Einstein

Written by Cloud for Good Team The term “summer melt” is used to describe students who apply, get admitted, and then commit to a college but

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Are Our Schools Built For Continued Engagement?

Written by Cloud for Good Team NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Technology is changing the way we interact with our

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Creating a Culture of Care

Written by Cloud for Good Team I have been working in the Salesforce ecosystem for 10+ years, but my entire career has been dedicated to the

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Top 10 Moments at Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of Cloud for Good’s founding! While we celebrated the momentous anniversary earlier in the year,

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Celebrating National Dog Day: American Kennel Club Goes Live with Service Cloud and Community Cloud

Celebrating National Dog Day: American Kennel Club Goes Live with Service Cloud and Community Cloud

Salesforce has enabled American Kennel Club to serve its dog-loving constituency through technology like never before.
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Why Cloud for Good is Excited About Salesforce.org Elevate

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce.org’s Elevate is an innovative new addition to the Salesforce ecosystem of technology solutions, released in Spring 2020. The suite

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

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
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Handling Donations Made via Third-Party Organizations

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
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Are You Ready for Some Dreamforce?

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
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Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields

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
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Tracking In-Kind Gifts in Salesforce

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.
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Navigating NGO Connect Batch Upload

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
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Make Those Moves and Track Them Too: Salesforce Moves Management

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
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What Can We Learn From the Health Care Community?- Cloud for Good

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-
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Data Management Tips for the Lone Wolf Admin- Cloud for Good

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
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#NPForce Tweet Chat

#NPForce Tweet Chat

The #NPForce chat will provide a chance to network and grow your knowledge of how nonprofit organizations are using Salesforce. Join us on April 23rd.
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Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

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
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Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

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.
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Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

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
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Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

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
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My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

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

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

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
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