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Apsona Mail Merge for Salesforce

Running monthly or yearly statements for your households can be a daunting task, from creating a report in your Salesforce instance --to exporting the data to...

4 Steps to Integrate Social Media Into Your Campaigns

4 Steps to Integrating Social Media into Successful Campaigns, is a helpful guide for understanding and using social media to meet your campaign goals....

Salesforce Sandbox and How To Use It

Who doesn’t like the idea of a sandbox? You can get creative, get dirty, and get better at what you’re looking to accomplish. Salesforce has some...

Volunteer Management in Salesforce

There are a handful of Salesforce apps that specialize in volunteer management, three of which stood out for me; HandsOn Connect, Volunteers for Salesforce, and Skillanthropy....

5 Ways to Get Staff on Board with Chatter

Learn how Kids Included Together implemented a social chatter approach across their organizations. Read more to learn about their 5 tips for keeping it social....

You Can Do Anything With Salesforce

Implementing Salesforce so that it can do “anything” requires leadership, capacity, and lots of expectations management. Learn why....

Three Ways To Make Sure that Your Next Big Software Project Is A Success

Buying a new fundraising CRM or replacing your finance and HR systems are big investments with critical outcomes. How can you make sure that big software...

4.5 Great Ways to use Pinterest and Salesforce

It hasn't exploded yet like the #askforce twitter channel, but it is gaining traction. Here are the top 5 ways Pinterest and Salesforce go together, like...

Why Integrations and Clean Manageable Data Help Change the World

For your non-profit, nothing can be more helpful than good, clean data. How to can you do that? Capitalize on integrations....

5 Key Items to Run a Successful Salesforce Implementation

When implementing new technology into your organization or expanding your existing system, a little bit of planning can go a long way in ensuring the success...

Top 5 Reasons to attend the NYC World Tour

Still on the fence about attending the World Tour in NYC on December 13th? Think no more, and read on for 5 fantastic reasons to attend!...

What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean For Nonprofit Organizations?

NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Artificial Intelligence is an area of computer science that trains machines to perform tasks that...

A New Year for Salesforce Resolutions

This is my favorite time of the year. The holidays are bringing families together, and as the year ends it is the perfect opportunity to reflect...

Change Management: Understanding the Type and Drivers of Change

Change is inevitable and one of the main forces behind improvement, strength and progress. For nonprofits, change, especially in technology, can be a game-changer. I’m a...

Cloud for Good Ranked Number 418 on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500™

Asheville, NC, August 15, 2018 – Cloud for Good today announced it ranked 418 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media,...

Duke Health Development and Alumni Affairs: Creating Efficient Prospecting Through Salesforce

Using Salesforces Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), Duke Health Development and Alumni Affairs were both able to alleviate bottlenecks, improve collaboration, and ultimately raise more funds to...