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Five Ways Managed Services Can Improve User Engagement

By enhancing user experiences, providing tailored support, and driving continuous improvements, Managed Services fosters a culture of adoption within your organization that maximizes the value of...

Data Models and DeLoreans: How Salesforce Beats Microsoft in the Nonprofit Space

Microsoft can learn from the success of fellow technology giant Salesforce in creating a bold, powerful data model that has lived up to its name. Here’s...

The Future of Student Information Systems with Salesforce Education Cloud

Cloud for Good CEO and Founder Tal Frankfurt shares his thought leadership and expert insights on the future of Student Information Systems (SIS) with Salesforce Education...

What to Know About Data Segmentation and Activation in Salesforce Data Cloud for Direct Response

Here's what direct response customers should know about data segmentation, analytics, and activation within Salesforce Data Cloud for Direct Response and how to leverage them to...

Why Organizations Must Continue AI Investment Despite Budget Pressures

This guest blog by Applied AI expert James Villarrublia examines a fundamental shift happening in our workforce that encourages organizations to continue investing in AI amid...

AI Agents in Education: Highlights of the Education Summit 2025 Keynote

The Education Summit 2025 Keynote opened our eyes to all the innovations and ways the higher education space can use AI agents and Agentforce to empower...

3 Ways Cloud for Good Managed Services Empower Salesforce Administrators

Here are three ways Cloud for Good's Managed Services offering empowers Salesforce admins....

Visionary CIOs Shaping the Future of Nonprofit and Education: Highlights of Cloud for Good’s CIO for Good Summit in New York City

We kicked off 2025 with our CIO for Good Summit in New York City. The summit is the second of its kind, following in the heels...

Preparing Your Salesforce Environment for AI in 2025 with Managed Services

If using AI in Salesforce to elevate your organization’s impact and workflows is a goal you want to accomplish in 2025, here are the key steps...

Data Cloud for Education: Creating Meaningful Relationships Across the Student Lifecycle

Many innovative and modern technology solutions for the education industry are available today that higher education institutions can utilize to unify, unlock, and bring meaning to...

Adding it Up: Understanding Roll-Up Summary Fields

Roll-up summaries are a powerful tool within Salesforce to help you analyze your data without running a summary report. They can give you data specific to...

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...