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5 Women-led Organizations Using Salesforce to Empower Women and Girls

5 Women-led Organizations Using Salesforce to Empower Women and Girls Around the World

This year’s International Women’s Day was themed #ChooseToChallenge – challenging individuals and organizations around the world to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias, and take action for gender equality. Through our work, Vera Solutions has had the privilege to work alongside many organizations who #ChooseToChallenge everyday, working tirelessly to

31st March 2021

6 Benefits of Salesforce Experiences – with Powerful Real-world Examples

At Vera Solutions, we believe that collaboration is a cornerstone to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . Over the last decade, we’ve been fortunate to work with hundreds of organizations to deliver data solutions that unlock a culture of transparency, collaboration, and data-informed decision-making. Through our work, we’ve been

12th March 2021

Amp Impact Electra: Powerful new functionality for Work Planning and Logframes as well as key UX enhancements

Amp Impact Electra: Powerful new functionality for Work Planning and Logframes and key UX enhancements

Amp Impact Electra, the product’s Winter ‘21 release, brings powerful new functionality to strengthen work planning and logframe management, provides greater flexibility to use Amp Impact’s features on any Salesforce object(s), and adds key enhancements to continue strengthening the product’s user-experience. With the Delphinus release last Summer, we unveiled Amp

12th February 2021

7 reasons why Salesforce should be at the center of your nonprofit digital strategy

At Vera Solutions, we’re often asked, “Why do you build nonprofit solutions on Salesforce? Isn’t it just a CRM tool?” As a technology provider, we love Salesforce mostly for its extensive configurability and scalability—allowing us to build using ‘clicks, not code’, streamline and automate organizational workflow, and store all kinds

3rd February 2021

Reflections on a year of resilience: 5 ways Vera Solutions has grown in 2020

Reflections on a year of resilience: 5 ways Vera Solutions has grown in 2020

Our word for the year: resilience. Reflecting on 2020, Vera has surely faced unprecedented challenges, but we’ve also seen some great milestones and remarkable growth. In March, as the world adapted to widespread lockdowns and growing health and economic concerns as a result of the pandemic, we quickly shifted our

18th December 2020

Accelerate Your Impact with End-to-end Program Insights

Accelerate Your Impact with End-to-end Program Insights

Over the last decade, Salesforce – the world’s leading cloud computing platform – has steadily become a go-to platform for nonprofit program management. As COVID-19 has disrupted many aspects of nonprofit programming – from fundraising to delivery – the need for a centralized, end-to-end program management system is more important

16th December 2020

Acumen Solutions and Vera Solutions Announce Partnership to Deliver Transformative Solutions for Impact-Driven Organizations

Acumen Solutions and Vera Solutions Announce Partnership to Deliver Transformative Solutions for Impact-Driven Organizations

MCLEAN, VA. (PRWEB) November 20, 2020 — Acumen Solutions and Vera Solutions today announced a new strategic partnership to help nonprofits, grantmakers, and impact investors measure impact and more effectively manage the lifecycle of programs, projects, grants, and investment. The experience and service delivery excellence of Acumen Solutions, a Top

20th November 2020

Meaningful Business

Vera Solutions recognized in Meaningful Business 100 for 2020

October 20, 2020 – Meaningful Business, a global platform for leaders combining profit and purpose, has recognized Vera Solutions Co-founder and CEO Zak Kaufman as a Meaningful Business 100 (MB100) leader for 2020. Zak joins an impressive group of purpose-driven business leaders around the world, including the Founders/CEOs of Chobani,

20th October 2020

Vera Solutions Fellowship 2020-21

14 Fellows from around the world Join the Vera Solutions Family

Vera Solutions’ Fellowship offers impact-driven professionals the opportunity to join an innovative, global team using technology to transform the way the social sector engages with data. Learn more about the Fellowship here. We are delighted to introduce the 2020-21 Vera Solutions Fellowship cohort.  These 14 fellows – from Brazil, India,

14th October 2020

Amp Impact Delphinus Release

Delphinus Release Highlights: New Grant Applications and Reviews Module and Revamped Indicator Management

Amp Impact Delphinus, the product’s Summer ‘20 release, launches huge new features and enhancements for implementers and grantmakers. The most exciting addition is the Grant Applications and Reviews Module, a packaged set of functionality that helps streamline and automate the application management process for grant managers, reviewers, and applicants. Grantmakers

28th August 2020

IMM and MEL: Can one tool meet impact measurement needs across sectors?

IMM and MEL: Can one tool meet impact measurement needs across sectors?

Last week, Salesforce.org, Monitor Institute by Deloitte, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released Impact Measurement Today, a white paper outlining a cross-sector approach to impact management capacity building. While nonprofits and governments focus efforts and resources around monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), grantmakers and impact investors are getting increasingly

24th July 2020

7 Benefits of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud's New Program Management Module

7 Benefits of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud’s New Program Management Module

Salesforce.org has just released a whole slew of new products and feature enhancements that have generated a lot of excitement here at Vera. One of these, the Program Management Module (PMM), has been in the works for a while – we are delighted to see it brought to life and

4th June 2020

6 Capacity Building Tips to Scale Your Digital Transformation Strategy

6 Capacity Building Tips to Scale Your Digital Transformation Strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlo1mAVClWI&feature=youtu.beAround the globe, nonprofits are taking an impact-first approach to digital transformation and using technology to work cross-functionally, communicate effectively, and enhance program effectiveness. This webinar, hosted by Salesforce.org, brings together a well-rounded group of panelists – Zak Kaufman of Vera Solutions, Tim Fives of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Elena

18th May 2020

The Aga Khan University and Hospital | CoronaCheck

6 Organizations Using Digital Tools for Program Delivery in the COVID-19 Era

Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed how the COVID-19 pandemic is fast-tracking digital transformation around the world. Public health services, such as the UK’s National Health Service, are turning to more telemedicine resources to cope with the new demand. In the private sector, cloud meeting and team collaboration providers

14th May 2020