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    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Sales Cloud - EE
    $36
    per month per user
    Sales + Service Cloud - EE
    $48
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - EE
    $60
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud is a much more robust and powerful tool than Slate. It is user friendly and very customizable. The number of add ons is also amazing and has made our team that much more successful with powerful integration of phone systems etc that are not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    I looked at many but they were all specific. I've looked at specific donation-only tools like Blackbaud. I've looked at volunteer-specific tools like GivePUlse. I've looked a just using spreadsheets. None scaled or could connect between programs like SF can.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce was complete and allowed for customization and has a team of experts available when we had questions. Access would have required complete creation and then finding someone to manage and revise it would have been difficult.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    We used Zoho as a database before we knew we needed a CRM. We even thought of creating our own database. We then tried Neon for a couple of years and then eTapestry. We found a few features missing with each of the packages when trying to manage our complicated family …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    I have managed CRM technology on a variety of different products in my career, including Salesforce (NPSP), Salesforce (Sales Cloud), NationBuilder, CiviCRM, Breeze, Hubspot. They all have strengths and weaknesses that I find compelling. Overall, they've all done the job! …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce is the best option for managing sales. Other software, such as Google sheets, has been used in the past to just create a simple sharable spreadsheet - but the data entered was inconsistent and it was difficult to track work in progress. Using Salesforce in this …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    DonorPerfect appeared to be a decent enough solution, fairly robust. eTapestry and NeonCRM left much to be desired from a UX standpoint. Ultimately, Salesforce would compare with solutions like Microsoft Dynamics, etc. since it's a well-rounded CRM solution and platform that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce for Nonprofits allows for the essentials to run a full nonprofit whereas some of the other Salesforce applications are "nice to haves" vs. "need to have". An example would be that you can still email your customers without the Marketing Cloud. Another example would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce is far more robust than these other tools, but it was built to be a sales platform and not specifically for nonprofits. Keep in mind that even the NPSP is built on a sales-style platform. The others are built specifically for nonprofit fundraising. My org chose …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    We use them in tandem and so they aren't really competing in my book. In my time here we have not tried out any other databases like salesforce so I cannot really speak to shopping around for a new database. I do know that Cvent, Mailchimp, and Salesforce are great partner …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce for Nonprofits is more user-friendly and customizable than eTapestry and DonorPerfect. It also visually displays client/donation/etc. information in a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing manner.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    I believe Salesforce for Nonprofits far exceeds expectations compared to these other tools. It has more free add-ons and a cleaner user experience.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    I have used other nonprofit CRMs, however, they were created especially for that nonprofit, so are not used more widely. We liked the innovation that was possible when using Salesforce, something that is a bit more challenging with the more custom options. For example, if your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce is not as robust as Blackbaud, but the price point makes up for it in the end. When my company transitioned to Blackbaud, we had to take over a year of implementation and still have issues to this day. Salesforce was easy and worked like a charm in the first few …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce gives you so much more than Infusionsoft, though it is the closest thing that I've worked with that I can compare it to. Customization is quite limited in Infusionsoft, but it will give you your basic needs. I suppose it depends on what you're looking for!
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Salesforce for Nonprofits is much more flexible than other tools I've used in the past. You aren't limited to staying with one company's suite of products - you have the ability to build out your database / fundraising solution using best in class applications. It also has a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    We reviewed all the mid-level options before we chose Salesforce. All the other options we looked at were eater very undefined and we woud be building from scratch or they were very defined and woud require our processes to change to match the system. Salesforce was the sweet …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Bloomerang CRM
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    DonorPerfect
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ellucian CRM Advance
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    If you only want to track donations, I'd go with something simpler. If you want to track donations and programs and connections between them, there may be nothing better. If you have no technical abilities and no budget, restricted yourself solely to what it does as described exactly in the manual. If you can't devote about 0.25FTE to the constant maintenance and upgrades, don't go with it.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
    • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
    • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
    • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Learning curve - very powerful, but takes time to learn
    • Batch processing - takes time and advanced skills to reach efficiency for data entry and certain operations which you want to do in batch
    • Mass email is extremely limited - must choose a third party tool which adds complexity and cost to the system
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    I think Salesforce has so much functionality that it makes it difficult in terms of overall usability. Once you can figure it out, it's a 10/10, it's just getting there. If you're willing to do the work to figure it out then you're golden. For what it's worth, I don't know if you're going to find something with this level of functionality that's easier to figure out
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Salesforce has allowed us to easily track donor communications in one area, which I believe has improved our donor communication overall.
    • Salesforce for Nonprofits has made it easier on my org to track and pull donation-related information and has reduced the amount of time we need to do these regular tasks.
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    ScreenShots

    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Case ManagementScreenshot of Contact RecordScreenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Management ModuleScreenshot of Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits