Thought Leadership

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

Explore by Topic:

Industry
- Cloud for Good
- Financial Services
- Higher Education
- Nonprofit
- Public Sector
- Salesforce
Topic / Function
- Academic Operations & Research
- Advancement & Alumni Engagement
- AI & Automation
- Change Management & User Adoption
- Company News & Culture
- Constituent & Customer Experience
- Data & Analytics
- Events
- Financial Aid
- Fundraising & Donor Engagement
- Governance, Security & Compliance
- Grantmaking
- Impact Measurement
- Implementation & Optimization
- Marketing & Communications
- Member Experience & Lending
- Migration & Integration
- Patient Engagement & Care
- Program & Case Management
- Public Sector Services
- Recruitment & Admissions
- Salesforce Administration
- Student Information Systems
- Student Success & Advising
- Technology Strategy
- Volunteer & Membership Management
- Workforce & Staffing
Product / Service
- Admissions Connect
- Agentforce
- Blackbaud CRM & Luminate
- Cirrus Financial Aid
- Cirrus Fundraising Agent
- Commerce Cloud
- Crystal Reports
- Cumulus Fundraising
- Cumulus Grantmaking
- Data Cloud
- Direct Response Services
- EDA / HEDA
- Elevate
- Experience Cloud
- Financial Services Cloud
- Headless 360
- Health Cloud
- Managed Services
- Marketing Cloud
- Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
- Marketing Cloud Intelligence
- Marketing Cloud Personalization
- MuleSoft
- NGO Connect
- NPSP
- OmniStudio
- Other Apps & Integrations
- Public Sector Solutions
- Raiser's Edge
- Revenue Cloud
- Sales Cloud
- Salesforce Education Cloud
- Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
- Salesforce Platform
- Salesforce Shield
- Salesforce SIS
- Service Cloud
- Slack
- Stratus
- Student Success Hub / Salesforce Advisor Link
- Tableau & CRM Analytics
- Talent for Good

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.

Nonprofit Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

At the nonprofit keynote at Dreamforce 2025, Cloud for Good and other nonprofit Trailblazers learned about some innovations and a name change for Nonprofit Cloud, and

Public Sector Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

The public sector keynote at Dreamforce 2025 unveiled a bold vision to help public sector organizations and government agencies meet their mandate with the launch of

Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit, and Higher Education Sessions, Roundtables, and Events

Cloud for Good has created a dynamic, immersive experience at Dreamforce 2025 designed to connect, educate, and inspire nonprofit, higher ed, and public sector Trailblazers.

Education Cloud Summit: Dreamforce2U

Education Cloud Summit: Dreamforce2U Shaping the Future of Education with Salesforce Please save the date for this special event highlighting key updates from Dreamforce and upcoming

Salesforce’s Approach to Reimagining the Student Information System: A Learner-Centered and AI-Powered System

Salesforce, with support from Cloud for Good, is reimagining what a SIS can and should be by taking the power of a CRM and combining it

Revenue Cloud in the Impact Sector: Simplifying Revenue Management for Mission-Driven Organizations

Revenue Cloud is opening new possibilities for nonprofits and higher education institutions alike. When combined with Nonprofit Cloud and Education Cloud, it can help organizations break

Latest Posts

Data Migration: Apsona for Salesforce

Apsona for Salesforce is another exceptionally useful ETL (Export Transform Load) app, with some unique advantages that make it an essential tool to keep in your

Winter 13 Release for Nonprofits – Sales Cloud

Winter ’13 has more surprises for us in the nonprofit community, the Sales Cloud are the ones aimed specifically at the development directors who help keep

How to Integrate Online Forms with Salesforce.com?

There are number of ways to integrate your online website forms with Salesforce. How do they compare? We did the leg work for you and below

When Silence Is the System: Closing the Communication Gaps in Foster Care

Silence has failed the foster care system on both ends. On one end is the person who decided they might be ready to foster a child.

Moving Beyond Point-to-Point Integration: Why Salesforce Is a Powerful Alternative to Lingk for Higher Education

Joy Asakawa, Director of Sales, EDU For years, higher education institutions have relied on integration platforms and middleware solutionslike Lingk to move critical data between their

The AI Your Team Will Actually Use Is Already in Slack

AI adoption stalls when tools sit outside the workflow. Here is why Cloud for Good treats Slack as the employee AI productivity layer to start with.

Agentforce for Higher Education: Every Student Deserves a Timely Answer

An admissions officer managing hundreds of inquiries from prospective students. An academic advisor carrying a caseload that makes genuine support nearly impossible. An advancement officer trying to

Agentforce Nonprofit: Your Next Team Member Does Not Burn Out

Agentforce Nonprofit brings purpose-built AI agents into your Salesforce CRM. See how Cloud for Good implements it around your mission, not a template.

Salesforce Agentforce for Health: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Matters Now

Administrative overhead consumes nearly 25% of U.S. healthcare spending. Discover how Salesforce Agentforce for Health provides digital labor at scale. Cloud for Good maps out what

Thought Leadership

Latest Posts

Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

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

Nonprofit Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

Public Sector Keynote at Dreamforce 2025: What You Need to Know

Cloud for Good at Dreamforce 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit, and Higher Education Sessions, Roundtables, and Events

Education Cloud Summit: Dreamforce2U

Salesforce’s Approach to Reimagining the Student Information System: A Learner-Centered and AI-Powered System

Revenue Cloud in the Impact Sector: Simplifying Revenue Management for Mission-Driven Organizations

Latest Posts

Data Migration: Apsona for Salesforce

Winter 13 Release for Nonprofits – Sales Cloud

How to Integrate Online Forms with Salesforce.com?

When Silence Is the System: Closing the Communication Gaps in Foster Care

Moving Beyond Point-to-Point Integration: Why Salesforce Is a Powerful Alternative to Lingk for Higher Education

The AI Your Team Will Actually Use Is Already in Slack

Agentforce for Higher Education: Every Student Deserves a Timely Answer

Agentforce Nonprofit: Your Next Team Member Does Not Burn Out

Salesforce Agentforce for Health: What It Is, What It Can Do, and Why It Matters Now