Nonprofits today are navigating a rapidly changing landscape. Donor expectations are rising, program delivery is becoming more complex, and organizations are being asked to demonstrate impact with greater speed and accuracy than ever before. Data is no longer just information; it’s insight. It’s the story of your mission, your relationships, and your outcomes.
That’s why the move from NPSP to Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud represents more than a technical shift. It’s an opportunity to modernize how nonprofits work, collaborate, and engage their communities. As organizations adopt Nonprofit Cloud, they’re gaining a unified platform that supports fundraising, programs, volunteers, and outcomes in ways legacy systems simply can’t.
Welcome to the Great Migration, a moment where nonprofits can align their people, processes, and data for the next decade of mission delivery.
Data Migration: Building the Foundation for What Comes Next
Data migration is often seen as the “plumbing” of a system transition, necessary but not strategic. In reality, the way your organization approaches migration sets the tone for everything that follows. Accurate, trusted, and accessible data is essential for meaningful reporting, successful adoption, and AI-powered insights.
Key questions nonprofits must answer early include:
- How clean is our existing data?
- What data needs to move forward, and what can be archived?
- Who needs access to which information in the new system?
To support this process, Cloud for Good developed Stratus: NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud, an AI-driven migration accelerator designed to streamline and standardize every step of the journey. Stratus reduces risk, compresses timelines, and ensures your organization starts Nonprofit Cloud with confidence, not chaos.
Pairing Stratus with Cloud for Good’s extensive migration expertise creates a predictable, transparent path forward. Your team can stay focused on strategy and transformation while we manage the technical complexity behind the scenes.
Change Management: Transforming How Teams Work, Not Just Where They Click
A successful migration isn’t defined by a go-live date; it’s defined by adoption. Moving from NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud requires intentional change management that supports how people work, think, and collaborate.
Stakeholder Alignment
Fundraising, programs, volunteer services, and leadership must share a common vision for the future. By identifying pain points and defining success early, organizations can configure Nonprofit Cloud to truly support their work.
Evolving Processes
Nonprofit Cloud introduces new data structures and expanded capabilities for outcomes, program enrollment, and volunteer engagement. Migrating to NPC is the perfect moment to revisit workflows and ensure they reflect how your organization wants to operate, not how legacy systems forced you to.
Training & Enablement
With a new user interface and data model, teams benefit from hands-on learning, sandbox practice, and internal champions who help guide peers through the transition. Adoption doesn’t happen by accident; it’s nurtured.
Governance & Continuous Improvement
Strong governance ensures your system continues to scale with your organization. Establishing clear process owners, feedback loops, and dashboard review cycles helps maintain long-term alignment and system health.
A Cultural Shift
Perhaps the biggest change is mindset. With Nonprofit Cloud, teams move from tracking transactions to understanding journeys, the donor journey, the participant journey, the volunteer journey. This unlocks richer insights and more personalized engagement across your entire mission ecosystem.
Why Nonprofit Cloud Over NPSP? A Platform Built for the Future
The shift from NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud isn’t just “newer.” It’s fundamentally more powerful.
Nonprofit Cloud offers:
- A native Salesforce architecture (no managed packages to maintain)
- Faster performance and fewer upgrade complications
- Enhanced program and outcome management
- Modern fundraising tools with batch gift entry, segmentation, and tagging
- A data model built for complex constituent relationships
- Ongoing innovation from Salesforce’s Industry Cloud ecosystem
Most importantly, NPC is where Salesforce is investing long-term. Remaining on NPSP means missing out on future capabilities, AI innovation, and platform enhancements.
Accelerating Fundraising with Cumulus Fundraising
To help fundraisers thrive on Day 1, Cloud for Good built Cumulus Fundraising, a pre-configured fundraising package on Nonprofit Cloud. It provides:
- Donor insights and levels
- Household and relationship management
- Automated soft credits
- Grant and deliverable tracking
- Matching gift workflows
- Accounting support
All packaged and ready to go, reducing your implementation timeline and accelerating time-to-value for your fundraising team.
AI + Nonprofit Cloud: Turning Insight Into Intelligent Action
Nonprofits no longer need to bolt AI onto their CRM. With Nonprofit Cloud and Data Cloud for Nonprofits, organizations gain a modern data foundation capable of powering predictive and generative insights.
With Nonprofit Cloud + Data 360 (Data Cloud), nonprofits can:
- Unite donor, volunteer, and program data into a 360° view
- Automate donor summaries and gift proposals
- Predict donor propensity or volunteer attrition
- Surface “next best action” recommendations
- Measure outcomes in real time
Cloud for Good’s Cirrus Fundraising Agent takes this even further. Designed specifically for nonprofit and higher education fundraising teams, Cirrus helps organizations:
- Identify high-potential donors
- Personalize outreach
- Optimize portfolios
- Deepen relationships with intelligent, data-driven insights
Fundraisers can spend more time engaging donors and less time chasing spreadsheets.
What the Great Migration Means for Your Community
While a migration may appear technical, its true impact is deeply human.
Participants Experience Dignity
One intake. One record. One story. No repeated questions. No siloed services.
Donors Experience Relevance
AI-powered insights tailor messaging and show meaningful impact. Donors feel understood, and connected.
Volunteers Experience Ease
Modern scheduling, better matching, and personalized communication make it easy to serve. While across the organization, engagement becomes more consistent, more intentional, and more mission-aligned.
Setting the Course with Stratus
Migrating to Nonprofit Cloud is more than a technology decision; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. With the right partner and the right tools, the benefits are significant: improved donor retention, stronger program insights, predictive analytics, and a unified platform that supports your entire mission.
Cloud for Good brings the nonprofit expertise, proprietary tools, and proven methodologies to help your organization make the shift smoothly and strategically.
To explore the journey in more depth, register for our upcoming webinar, “From NPSP to Nonprofit Cloud: A Seamless Journey with Stratus.” You’ll see Stratus in action and gain a clearer understanding of what a successful migration looks like.
If you’re ready to define your migration roadmap, your data, your team, your strategy — Cloud for Good is here to help.
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