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Get Connected, Lightning Fast

What if I told you that Lightning Connect enables you to create a real-time integration in an amount of time best measured by hours not days?...

Salesforce Nonprofit Dashboards: Not Just For Fundraising

If you’ve made the jump to Salesforce, your fundraisers are probably already using dashboards to quickly evaluate the health of their donation pipeline, track the progress...

NPSP and NGO Connect Product Roadmaps

Dreamforce 2014 was filled with lots of exciting announcements of new Salesforce products, features, and functionality. I'm greatly looking forward to what's in store for both...

Lightning Strikes Dreamforce – What It Means for Your Organization

What is Salesforce Lightning, and why is it important? Fundamentally, Lightning is a set of tools that allow organizations to customize the way they use Salesforce...

Clicktools Surveys: Collecting Constituents Feedback in Salesforce

Clicktools is an online survey creating/capturing solution available through the Salesforce AppExchange. Offering organizations the ability to integrate customer feedback into their Salesforce database. Considered one...

Integrating Google Apps and Salesforce: A Bridge Between Clouds

Since most of us spend a large percentage of our day in our email boxes, bridging your Salesforce and Google Apps accounts in imperative. Doing so...

Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce

After months of planning and anticipation, Dreamforce ’14 has come and gone. We were inspired by keynotes, learned new things at hands-on training sessions, danced to...

Dance Me To The End – 5 Tips for After Dreamforce

As with all good things, Dreamforce inevitably comes to an end, we all find our way back home, and for the briefest of moments, we have...

4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready

This new Salesforce Analytics Cloud helps “everyday users” (not trained analysts) make informed decisions. However, implementing this technology would require a significant commitment from your organization....

Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity

There are some calls that go sour, some meetings where obstreperousness is abundant, and some that happen to fall on everyone’s bad day. These are key...

Salesforce.Org Acquired roundCorner, What’s Next?

Nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions continue to choose Salesforce to manage their programs, admission, fundraising, marketing and everything in between. Salesforce has become the gold...

Cloud for Good Secures Spot on 100 Top Impact Companies

Asheville, NC, January 8, 2019 – on January 7, Cloud for Good was ranked 51 on Real Leaders, Big Path Capital and B Lab’s 2019 list of...

Happy Holidays from Cloud for Good

Cheers to a Great Year: Client Successes in 2018 Throughout the year, I have had the privilege of witnessing hundreds of incredible mission-driven organizations realize the...

Blockchain Is Reestablishing Trust In Nonprofits

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Bitcoin and hundreds of other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are on the rise, allowing a new form of...

Understanding Our Clients Through Volunteering

Being part of the Cloud for Good team means that helping nonprofits is an everyday part of our job. We have the tools and the team...