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Engagement Plans and Levels Make Moves Management Work for You
Engagement Plans have been added to the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and will provide an even more seamless experience in managing your moves to cultivate donors
Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector
Choosing the best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector will ensure that you deliver the right message at the right time to your constituents. Cloud for Good has
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
