Thought Leadership

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

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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...

At Project’s End: Separation Anxiety and User Adoption

Some of the biggest angst for my clients comes at the end of a project. Wrapping up an implementation brings all sorts of mixed feelings: pride...

12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard

Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013....

Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce

There’s a lot of talk about Best Practice in the nonprofit sector, and having consulted on projects large and small, I want to take moment to...

Better Living Through Training and Documentation

As a system administrator, it’s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created....

Ensuring Training Success

Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ...

Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to...

Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again

You choose a platform, signed with an awesome implementation partner who can translate your needs into technology, and you are extremely excited to get started. Wait…...

The Power of US Hub

Are you sometimes confused about where to go to get the answers you need in using Salesforce at your nonprofit? As you may have discovered there...

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Raiser’s Edge – And Here’s Why

Over the last decade Cloud for Good worked with hundreds of higher education and nonprofit organizations, completing over 2,000 projects. Many of these projects have been...

Cloud for Good Ranks on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT List as the #1 Small Business

June 18, 2019 [Asheville, NC] – IDG’s Computerworld announces Cloud for Good, a leading technology consulting firm for nonprofit and higher education institutions, as a 2019...

Cloud for Good Becomes Global Premium Partner in Nonprofit & Higher Education

April 11, 2019 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good has announced that it has become a Salesforce.org Premium Partner in North America under the Nonprofit and...

Cloud for Good Named a Great Place to Work® for 5th Year

Asheville, North Carolina – January 28, 2019 – Cloud for Good has again earned Great Place to Work Certification for the 5th year in a...

Making the Most of Your End-User Training

If you are responsible for coordinating your organization’s Salesforce User training, you’ve probably already read many articles, including from our own Cloud for Good blog, that...

Is Your Food Bank Ready to Leverage Salesforce?

The Hunger Problem In America, 1 in 6 individuals struggle to put food on their tables. This isn’t because we’re facing a lack of food, but...