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Engagement Plans and Levels Make Moves Management Work for You

Engagement Plans and Levels Make Moves Management Work for You

Engagement Plans have been added to the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and will provide an even more seamless experience in managing your moves to cultivate donors
Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

Choosing the Best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector

Choosing the best MailChimp to Salesforce Connector will ensure that you deliver the right message at the right time to your constituents. Cloud for Good has
Lightning Experience: Winter 17 and Beyond

Lightning Experience: Winter 17 and Beyond

The Salesforce Winter '17 release brought many changes to the Lightning Experience. We cover some of those changes and what's to come in this post.
Destination Adoption: Get Your Users Using Salesforce

Destination Adoption: Get Your Users Using Salesforce

Adoption can be a challenge for some organizations. Here are some tips to help you increase it!
Connected Nonprofits Use Technology to Manage Volunteers

Connected Nonprofits Use Technology to Manage Volunteers

Volunteers are often key to nonprofits' work but managing them with limited staff and budget can be a challenge. Utilizing technology effectively in volunteer management can
Paying It Forward: Nonprofits Helping Nonprofits

Paying It Forward: Nonprofits Helping Nonprofits

Nonprofits are helping each other in the Salesforce community through the Power of Us HUB and now with the Solutions Exchange. Learn how you, too, can
5 Nonprofit New Years Resolutions for Salesforce

5 Nonprofit New Years Resolutions for Salesforce

The new year is always a time to resolve to do better, try harder, and move farther toward your goals, but we all know keeping your
Process Builder: Tips and Tricks

Process Builder: Tips and Tricks

Process Builder is one of the more powerful tools to be added to the Salesforce platform in recent years. Much of what Process Builder can do
Make Salesforce Work for You: Workflows and Email Automations

Make Salesforce Work for You: Workflows and Email Automations

Workflows take processes that can be standardized and automate them when certain criteria are met. This can be especially useful for development teams, as they can
Burst your Silos and Become a Connected Nonprofit

Burst your Silos and Become a Connected Nonprofit

Functional silos or information silos refer to business processes or data systems that are incompatible or not integrated with other processes or systems. A silo is

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OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

OPM or (N)OPM? How Salesforce Can Transform Your Approach to Online Program Management

Written by Cloud for Good Team To OPM? Or n(O)PM? That is the question. No, that wasn’t the question that made it into Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, but

Dreamforce 2024_ Nonprofit Keynote Highlights_ Amplifying Your Mission and Impact with AI

Dreamforce 2024: Nonprofit Keynote Highlights: Amplifying Your Mission and Impact with AI

The Cloud for Good team at Salesforce’s highly-anticipated Dreamforce 2024 conference unpack the key insights, highlights, and product innovations on AI, data, and Nonprofit Cloud from
Dreamforce 2024_ Education Keynote Highlights_ Elevate Every Education Journey with AI + Data + Action

Dreamforce 2024: Education Keynote Highlights: Elevate Every Education Journey with AI + Data + Action

The Cloud for Good team at Salesforce's highly-anticipated Dreamforce 2024 conference unpack the key insights, highlights, and product innovations on AI, data, and Education Cloud from
Where to Find Cloud for Good: Dreamforce 2024

Where to Find Cloud for Good: Dreamforce 2024

Written by Cloud for Good Team Get ready for Dreamforce 2024! Salesforce’s flagship event is set to kick off on Tuesday, September 17th in San Francisco,

Highlights from the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement

Highlights from the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement

Jordan Sites shares the highlights of the 2024 CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement, where the Cloud for Good team and other advancement leaders learned, connected,
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Find Success with Event Management: 5 Key Considerations for Your Event Management Platform

This guest blog by Blackthorn CEO Chris Federspiel dives into the importance of choosing the right event management platform that can meet your current event management
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A Path to Success: Strategic Salesforce Roadmap

By laying a comprehensive strategic roadmap, Cloud for Good is helping the college harness the full potential of Salesforce, ensuring that its technology would both support
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Salesforce Announces New Product Innovations for Education Cloud at the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement

Salesforce announced three new product innovations for Education Cloud for Advancement & Alumni Relations at the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement in New York City
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Where to Find Cloud for Good This Summer: Upcoming Events

Written by Cloud for Good Team Summer is a season that many of us look forward to. Whether it’s because of the beautiful weather, scenic transformations

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Considerations for Migrating from NPSP to NPC: Review the Timing for Your Technology Transformation

Learn about some key questions you should ask as you determine the best time to make the change from Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) to Nonprofit
Cloud for Good Recognized as a Salesforce Summit Partner

Cloud for Good Recognized as a Salesforce Summit Partner

Cloud for Good announced its acclaimed recognition as a Salesforce Summit Partner, the highest tier a Salesforce partner can achieve.

Julie Laurie, Director of Professional Services

Written by Cloud for Good Team The Cloud Team SEE HOW CLOUD FOR GOOD CAN HELP YOU CREATE MORE VALUE WITH SALESFORCE. Julie Laurie, Director of

Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?- Cloud for Good

Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). Find out how Salesforce Tableau can
Salesforce Education Cloud Winter ’22 Release: What You Need To Know- Cloud for Good

Salesforce Education Cloud Winter ’22 Release: What You Need To Know

The Salesforce.org Winter ’22 Education Cloud Release features several updates and optimizations designed to help make institution operations more efficient.
Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) Winter '22 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) Winter ’22 Release: What You Need to Know

The NPSP Winter '22 release is introducing the Elevate Power of Us Edition, offering new ways to manage undeliverable addresses track Change Logs for Recurring Donations,
Migrating from Blackbaud Luminate CRM and Luminate Online to Salesforce- Customer Story- Cloud for Good

Migrating from Blackbaud Luminate CRM and Luminate Online to Salesforce

When harmony is created through technology systems like Nonprofit Cloud and Pardot, so too is it created for the diverse allies of the Rainforest Alliance as