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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...

Discover Donor Giving Power Through Wealth Screening

Prospecting within your existing database of constituents is a great place to start your fundraising efforts, but it can be difficult to identify their capacity to...

Nonprofits and Recurring Donations

It has been said that the best things come in small packages and the same can be said of small donations. In particular, ones that are...

Engage Your Constituents with Text Messaging

Communication in a Digital Age Before coming to Cloud for Good, I worked for an organization that provides multiple income and food support services to low-income...

Which Pardot edition do I choose?

When I bought my first car, I hemmed and hawed over which Toyota Celica I wanted, the basic GT or the GT-S. Not to mention all...

Salesforce Advisor Link: A Game Changer for Higher Ed

We hear it time and time again – the higher education landscape is changing. Colleges and universities are competing for the same students with slimmer budgets...

Meet Cloud for Good at WITness Success

WITness Success is a 1½ day, community-led career development event in Colorado where woman in the Salesforce ecosystem meet to learn, network, grow, get inspired and...