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Top Five Reasons Your K-12 School Should Move to Salesforce

We've explored five reasons why K-12 schools are making the move to Salesforce. From breaking down silos to ensuring students receive the best education, the Salesforce

Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

Organizations that help animals find forever homes are turning to Salesforce to track adopters, donors, volunteers, events and more in a central location. Managing all animal

Facebook Fundraising Trends and the Expanding Nonprofit Technology Landscape

Facebook's waived donation fees and expanded fundraising and disaster relief tools have implications for the crowded nonprofit technology landscape in 2018.

The Benefits of Triggers in Salesforce

With Workflow Rules, Flows, and Process Builder at your fingertips, you may feel like code isn't necessary. However, there are times when code is needed over

Using Webforms for Useful and Actionable Data

The information your nonprofit gets out of Salesforce is only as good as the information your organization puts into it. Use webforms to collect useful and

#C4GGives – Cloud for Good Volunteer Week 2017

Cloud for Good held it's first ever Volunteer Week in 2017. Members of our team gave their time at area food banks and pantries. We not

Creating Donor Journeys to Increase Fundraising

Significant changes to the digital communication landscape help savvy organizations pivot to better engage their supporters. Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Journey Builder allow sophisticated, intelligent donor journeys

Having Fun and Playing Salesforce

While a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) platform is a must for many organizations, Salesforce can also be fun. We provide tips so your nonprofit can have

How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes

If your organization sometimes feels like a rodent warren of haphazard business processes, there are some things you can do to make them better. Start by

Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits

Each Salesforce release brings new and updated features to the platform. We explore some of the best Lightning features for nonprofits in the Winter '18 Release.

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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

Salesforce Scheduled Unit Tests

One of the simplest steps you can take to maintain the integrity of your Salesforce data is to implement automated unit tests. The up-front work is

Investing in Salesforce Success

Roll out is often considered the end of a software or systems project, but the end of every Salesforce project is really just the beginning. Investing

The 360 on roundCause

Even on a powerful platform like Salesforce, we’ve all had moments where we need a little bit more. Maybe your nonprofit is using the Non-Profit Starter

Let it Flow: Salesforce Visual Flows

A simple, streamlined process can improve data quality and reduce user frustration. Visual Flows are a powerful tool for streamlining and simplifying data entry. After you

The Evils of Multi-Select Picklists in Salesforce

None of us likes to limit our choices if we don’t have to, so on its surface Salesforce’s multi-select picklist (MSP) seems like a great field

Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Written by Cloud for Good Team On average, your constituents receive around 121 emails every day, including emails from their favorite restaurants, stores, or even meeting

Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) for Higher Education Advancement

While NPSP was historically associated with the nonprofit sector, the versatility and customizability of the solution can also support large-scale fundraising for higher education institutions.

You Can Have it all (With External Data Architectures)

Written by Cloud for Good Team It doesn’t always make sense to keep all of your data in Salesforce. Learn how organizations like the American Kennel

Managing Your Programs with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Human Service organizations work hard every day to make our world a better place. Whether you have one, twenty or

Unified customer experience with Service Cloud

Written by Cloud for Good Team The need for intuitive customer experiences is at an all-time high. Your customers deserve an intelligently-designed system that will enable,

Options for Your Accounting Reconciliation with Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team We often see a disconnect in nonprofit organizations between the fundraising process and the reconciliation of those details into finance.

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Top Five Reasons Your K-12 School Should Move to Salesforce

Salesforce: Managing Animal Welfare Constituents

Facebook Fundraising Trends and the Expanding Nonprofit Technology Landscape

The Benefits of Triggers in Salesforce

Using Webforms for Useful and Actionable Data

#C4GGives – Cloud for Good Volunteer Week 2017

Creating Donor Journeys to Increase Fundraising

Having Fun and Playing Salesforce

How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes

Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits

Latest Posts

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

Salesforce Scheduled Unit Tests

Investing in Salesforce Success

The 360 on roundCause

Let it Flow: Salesforce Visual Flows

The Evils of Multi-Select Picklists in Salesforce

Breaking Through the Noise This #GivingTuesday

Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) for Higher Education Advancement

You Can Have it all (With External Data Architectures)

Managing Your Programs with Salesforce

Unified customer experience with Service Cloud

Options for Your Accounting Reconciliation with Salesforce