Thought Leadership

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

Thank You Letters: Leveraging Donation Split & Conga Composer

How are you currently generating thank you letters for your donations? More importantly, how can you generate a thank you letter from a donor that has

The Ethical Consultant

I got into a discussion with a client recently about ethical consulting. I’ve had this discussion with colleagues, co-workers, friends and mentors through the years, but

Going to Dreamforce? Let’s Meet!

Are you going to Dreamforce? Let's schedule a time to meet!

Don’t Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration

Each Salesforce organization is housed at one of Salesforce’s data centers. Salesforce calls these groupings of clients instances and it is a good practice as a

Winter ’14 Release: My Favorite Features for Nonprofits

Check out Trish Perkins top new features in the Salesforce Winter '14 release.

Audit Trail – A Hidden Gem

The Audit Trail helps you track the recent Setup changes that you and other administrators have made to your organization. Learn more.

Salesforce Administrators and Puppies

Too often, in my experience, I’ve had clients treat a Salesforce implementation as a discrete moment in time: “We wanted Salesforce, we got Salesforce, we have

The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile

Chatter Publisher Publisher actions allow you to perform simple tasks such as creating child records from within the record’s Chatter feed. Read more about publisher.

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question?

When evaluating your needs and choosing to implement a CRM solution, I recommend starting by asking the five W’s: Who, What, Where, When and Why.

Custom Code: Are you ready?

It is an interesting dichotomy that while writing custom code allows you to manipulate the system in very sophisticated ways, every bit of custom code that

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10 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Attend Dreamforce

You may be asking yourself, “But why should my nonprofit attend? Isn’t it just another tech conference?” To answer this question I’ve put together the following

Become a Connected Organization with NGO Connect

If you are a major gift manager, super fundraiser, or a volunteer mobilizer, you have a great reason to get excited. The Salesforce Foundation has recently

Making Your Back Office Hum with Salesforce

All companies, whether for or nonprofit, need to hire and onboard new employees. In many cases, the hiring process may be run through a job board

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.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Utilizing Technology in the Fight for Press Rights

The Reporters Committee defends American journalists, scaling their efforts through Salesforce to meet an unprecedented rise in need.

Defending American Dreamers with New York Immigration Coalition + Salesforce

New York Immigration Coalition has delivered unprecedented crisis assistance to its most under-supported immigrant groups through Salesforce.

Putting Predictions Into Your Alumni Sustainer Program

Written by Cloud for Good Team The Salesforce Einstein Analytics tool provides organizations with the ability to visualize the activity taking place within their unique Salesforce environment, offering

The Latest NPSP Releases for Summer ’20

Written by Cloud for Good Team The highly-anticipated Summer ’20 Release is finally here! This new NPSP release introduces timely enhancements for user experience and features

Why Donating to Higher Education Still Makes a Difference

Written by Cloud for Good Team I have a number of connections to the higher education industry: I’m on an EDA team at Cloud for Good;

New Salesforce Education Cloud Release Provides Connection in Times of Separation

Written by Cloud for Good Team The need for creative solutions and progressive thinking within the world of higher education has never been greater. While the

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Thank You Letters: Leveraging Donation Split & Conga Composer

The Ethical Consultant

Going to Dreamforce? Let’s Meet!

Don’t Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration

Winter ’14 Release: My Favorite Features for Nonprofits

Audit Trail – A Hidden Gem

Salesforce Administrators and Puppies

The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question?

Custom Code: Are you ready?

Latest Posts

10 Reasons Your Nonprofit Should Attend Dreamforce

Become a Connected Organization with NGO Connect

Making Your Back Office Hum with Salesforce

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

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Utilizing Technology in the Fight for Press Rights

Defending American Dreamers with New York Immigration Coalition + Salesforce

Putting Predictions Into Your Alumni Sustainer Program

The Latest NPSP Releases for Summer ’20

Why Donating to Higher Education Still Makes a Difference

New Salesforce Education Cloud Release Provides Connection in Times of Separation