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How AI Is Transforming Salesforce Migrations: What’s Next in the Stratus Roadmap

AI-powered Salesforce migration is redefining modernization. Explore how Stratus automates configuration, code, and UI migration to reduce risk and technical debt.

Technology Alone Won’t Transform Your Fundraising – People Will

Technology doesn’t transform fundraising—people do. During CRM implementations and data migrations, trust, confidence, and readiness determine whether Salesforce delivers real impact or becomes just another system.

Modernize with Confidence: Moving from NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud with Stratus

Migrating from NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud is no longer just a technical upgrade—it’s an operational shift. This blog explores how Stratus, Cloud for Good’s AI-powered migration

Salesforce Managed Services: Cloud for Good’s Reimagined Model for a New Year of Scalable Salesforce Success

Salesforce Managed Services have become essential for organizations that rely on Salesforce as a mission-critical platform. But as environments grow more complex, traditional managed services models

The Great Migration: Why Moving to Nonprofit Cloud is About More Than Data

As nonprofits face rising expectations and increasing complexity, the move from NPSP to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud marks a pivotal opportunity—one that transforms data into insight, modernizes

Hope, Gratitude, and Impact: Reflections on 2025 at Cloud for Good

Celebrate a year of resilience, innovation, and community impact with Cloud for Good. This 2025 reflection highlights transformative client outcomes, advancements in AI-powered IP, expanded partnerships,

7 Ways to Optimize Your End-of-Year Giving

Year-end giving is a major opportunity. With unified data, smart segmentation, and personalized outreach, nonprofits can boost donations and build lasting donor relationships.

Reimagining the Grantmaking Experience on Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking streamlines every stage of the grant lifecycle, empowering funders and grantees to focus on impact.

Meet the Monsters of Fundraising and Discover How to Defeat Them

The education keynote at Dreamforce 2025 unveiled groundbreaking announcements and innovations in Education Cloud and Agentforce from Salesforce. Here's what you need to know.

Education Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

The education keynote at Dreamforce 2025 unveiled groundbreaking announcements and innovations in Education Cloud and Agentforce from Salesforce. Here's what you need to know.

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Using Salesforce for Performance Monitoring and Program Evaluation

Salesforce can be a powerful tool that can enable an effectively implemented evaluation. However, there are ways to use Salesforce for program evaluation successfully, and some

Idealware Report: The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits

When our friends at Idealware approached us with their plans to research and write a new report, The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits: A Report on

Salesforce Peer to Peer Fundraising: Click and Pledge

Click & Pledge has pioneered the trend toward individual “peer-to-peer” fundraising. Watch this webinar to learn about their Salesforce integration.

Where Is My Salesforce Data?!

One of the most common complaints on the various forums that serve the nonprofit community is that data has somehow either mysteriously disappeared, or that it

You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances

When implementing a new Salesforce instance from an existing one, sometimes it’s not just the data you need to move. It’s the heavy stuff: Metadata. Without

Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone

Before assigning the System Administrator profile to a user, think carefully about the power and responsibility you are conveying on that user and try to right-size

Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance

So how do you go about identifying fields that are underutilized? The folks at Qandor developed a great app called Field Trip that is perfect for

Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cloud for Good is proud to release the first edition of our Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book. Our E-Book provides an

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It

Know that the clearer your vision, the more ready, supportive of, and willing for change, and the more you understand your own desired outcomes and metrics,

Make it Flatter with Chatter: 5 Ways to Break Down Organizational Silos

Breaking down organizational silos sounds easy. Any Internet search will yield articles with advice, most of which boils down to improving your communication: Share information widely;

Nonprofit Tech Strategies for the Season of Giving

Written by Cloud for Good Team Guest post By Sean Alpert, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Salesforce It’s hard to wrap your head around how large

Igniting Education Reform Through Salesforce

The Salesforce platform is great for organizations who are working to reform education. Implementing Salesforce allows your organization to develop a strategic plan to manage your

Advocacy Tools for Salesforce

Written by Cloud for Good Team Advocacy organizations and organizations that are working to influence policy can choose from a number of cloud-based technology options to

Making Sense of the Marketing Cloud

Written by Cloud for Good Team Salesforce is an excellent tool for tracking information about constituents, programs, fundraising, and so much more. But when you want

Hundreds of Nonprofits Attended Salesforce World Tour in NYC

On November 18, Cloud for Good attended the Salesforce World Tour in NYC and had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of local nonprofits utilizing Salesforce

Chili for a Cause: Volunteer Time Off

The Hanover Chili Cookoff may look like just another festival or fair but at its core is a group of extremely dedicated volunteers who organize an

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Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

How AI Is Transforming Salesforce Migrations: What’s Next in the Stratus Roadmap

Technology Alone Won’t Transform Your Fundraising – People Will

Modernize with Confidence: Moving from NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud with Stratus

Salesforce Managed Services: Cloud for Good’s Reimagined Model for a New Year of Scalable Salesforce Success

The Great Migration: Why Moving to Nonprofit Cloud is About More Than Data

Hope, Gratitude, and Impact: Reflections on 2025 at Cloud for Good

7 Ways to Optimize Your End-of-Year Giving

Reimagining the Grantmaking Experience on Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

Meet the Monsters of Fundraising and Discover How to Defeat Them

Education Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

Latest Posts

Using Salesforce for Performance Monitoring and Program Evaluation

Idealware Report: The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits

Salesforce Peer to Peer Fundraising: Click and Pledge

Where Is My Salesforce Data?!

You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances

Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone

Using Field Trip App to Clean Up Your Salesforce Instance

Salesforce Peer-to-Peer Fundraising E-Book

Why CRM Implementations Fail and How to Avoid It

Make it Flatter with Chatter: 5 Ways to Break Down Organizational Silos

Nonprofit Tech Strategies for the Season of Giving

Igniting Education Reform Through Salesforce

Advocacy Tools for Salesforce

Making Sense of the Marketing Cloud

Hundreds of Nonprofits Attended Salesforce World Tour in NYC

Chili for a Cause: Volunteer Time Off