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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

#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.

Appearances Do Matter…in Your Salesforce Org! A Tale of Configuration

As your organization grows and evolves, so too do the influences on your Salesforce organization such as change of staff for administration, change of leadership within

Best Practices: Salesforce Fields

Salesforce fields are so important to a successful implementation, yet you may completely forget to really think critically about these “building blocks” of your CRM. A

Implementation Best Practices: Data

Nothing sinks a new implementation faster than bad data. Users will quickly lose faith in the tool as well as those leading the implementation effort if

Flexibility in Flows: Custom Settings and Dynamic Picklists

Visual Flows are a powerful tool for any administrator on the Salesforce platform. With a drag and drop interface and a suite of possible actions, Visual

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Your Organization Needs a Salesforce Administrator – Could It Be You?

Written by Cloud for Good Team At many nonprofits, and in particular at smaller organizations, staff members tend to wear many hats. There may not be

So, you think you want to upgrade to NPSP 3.0…

The NPSP 3.0 brings lots of great new features for nonprofits on Salesforce. Here's what you should consider and what you need to do to upgrade.

The Community’s Salesforce Hidden Gems

In an effort to unveil “hidden” best features of Salesforce I asked people on the Hub recently to share their tips. The responses I received were

Cloud for Good Named to Inc. 500 List

Inc. magazine ranked Cloud for Good No. 434 on the 2014 Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the

Tearing the Wrapping Paper Off Cumulus / NPSP 3.0

The Salesforce Foundation has updated their Nonprofit Starter Pack application, and the new release gives us plenty of reasons to be as excited as a young

Nonprofit Starter Pack 3.0 – It’s Come a Long Way Baby

Nonprofit Starter Pack - where its been and where it is going and why you should consider upgrading to the soon to be released Version 3.0.

Celebrating the You in Community: Why Salesforce Just Does It Better

You are the Community that sets Salesforce apart as a an exceptional customer company. Don't believe me? See how your involvement makes the product grow.

Click & Pledge Event Management

Many nonprofits hold fundraising events as a way of generating awareness deepening constituent engagement and, of course, raising money. Events take a lot of planning, hard

Make it Awesome: Salesforce and Eventbrite

Eventbrite is an ideal solution for nonprofit events. So why do nonprofit orgs with Salesforce shy away from it? Here's four ways to make it awesome.

Work.com: Time for Another Look

One of the biggest obstacles to using Work.com to effectively manage goals was that it wasn’t integrated with Salesforce.com, so there was no automated way to

Data Migration: Apsona for Salesforce

Apsona for Salesforce is another exceptionally useful ETL (Export Transform Load) app, with some unique advantages that make it an essential tool to keep in your

Winter 13 Release for Nonprofits – Sales Cloud

Winter ’13 has more surprises for us in the nonprofit community, the Sales Cloud are the ones aimed specifically at the development directors who help keep

How to Integrate Online Forms with Salesforce.com?

There are number of ways to integrate your online website forms with Salesforce. How do they compare? We did the leg work for you and below

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Tracking In-Kind Gifts in Salesforce

Navigating NGO Connect Batch Upload

Make Those Moves and Track Them Too: Salesforce Moves Management

What Can We Learn From the Health Care Community?

Data Management Tips for the Lone Wolf Admin

#NPForce Tweet Chat

Appearances Do Matter…in Your Salesforce Org! A Tale of Configuration

Best Practices: Salesforce Fields

Implementation Best Practices: Data

Flexibility in Flows: Custom Settings and Dynamic Picklists

Latest Posts

Your Organization Needs a Salesforce Administrator – Could It Be You?

So, you think you want to upgrade to NPSP 3.0…

The Community’s Salesforce Hidden Gems

Cloud for Good Named to Inc. 500 List

Tearing the Wrapping Paper Off Cumulus / NPSP 3.0

Nonprofit Starter Pack 3.0 – It’s Come a Long Way Baby

Celebrating the You in Community: Why Salesforce Just Does It Better

Click & Pledge Event Management

Make it Awesome: Salesforce and Eventbrite

Work.com: Time for Another Look

Data Migration: Apsona for Salesforce

Winter 13 Release for Nonprofits – Sales Cloud

How to Integrate Online Forms with Salesforce.com?