Three Simple Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Features to Help You Find and Nurture Your Next Big Donors

Donor Gift Summaries, Actionable Lists, and Action Plan Templates turn raw giving data into a prioritized major gifts pipeline, no custom development required, with Agentforce for Nonprofits (formerly known as Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud.)

Agentforce for Nonprofits comes with dozens of features designed to help fundraisers make a bigger impact. That’s a good thing. But when you’re staring down a big list of possibilities, it can be hard to know where to start. Which tools will actually make a difference? Which ones are worth the time to set up?

The good news is that you don’t need to implement everything all at once. Some of the most impactful features in Nonprofit Cloud are also the quickest to get up and running. Here are three that work especially well together and that most teams can get set up in a matter of hours, not weeks.

Donor Gift Summaries

Donor Gift Summaries are an out-of-the-box feature that automatically calculates giving metrics for every individual, household, and organization in your database. Once you’ve set it up, you’ll have immediate access to giving totals and counts by year, soft credit totals, recency-frequency-monetary (RFM) scores, and more, and they’re all calculated automatically and kept current.

On an individual constituent record, these data points give you a clear picture of past giving behavior and future potential. But the real power comes when you bring this data into reporting. That’s where you can start segmenting your donor base, whether you’re looking to separate lapsed major donors from consistent mid-level givers, or identify households that have been steadily increasing their annual contributions. Instead of working from instinct, your team can focus their energy where the data says it’s most likely to pay off.

Actionable Lists

Once you have rich donor data in place, the next step is building on it. That’s where Actionable Lists come in. The concept is simple: you define the criteria for the donors you want to engage, and Salesforce automatically keeps the list up to date in real time based on your rules.

For a major gifts team, this might mean pulling together every household or organization that meets a certain giving threshold, has made a gift in the last 18 months, and hasn’t yet been assigned to a portfolio. When your team logs in on a Monday morning, they’re not spending the first hour of their week building a spreadsheet — they’re looking at a current, prioritized list of prospects ready for outreach.

The criteria you set are entirely up to you, which means the list evolves as your donors do. Someone who’s been a mid-level donor for years but just made a significantly larger gift will surface at the right moment, without anyone having to catch it manually.

Action Plan Templates

An Actionable List tells your team who to reach out to. Action Plan Templates help make sure the outreach itself is consistent, thorough, and nothing falls through the cracks.

The idea is pretty simple. You create a reusable set of tasks that should be completed each time your team engages a new major gift prospect. Think an introductory call within five days, a follow-up email at two weeks, a site visit scheduled within the month, or whatever your process looks like. Once the template is built, your team applies it with a few clicks, and Salesforce creates and tracks the tasks automatically.

This matters more than it might sound. In most development offices, relationship-building with major donors is as much about consistency as it is about connection. A structured touchpoint plan means every prospect gets the same thoughtful attention, regardless of which team member is managing the relationship. It also makes it much easier for managers to see where things stand across the portfolio at any given moment.

Together, Donor Gift Summaries, Actionable Lists, and Action Plan Templates create a straightforward pipeline: surface the right people, get them in front of your team, and make sure the follow-through is there. None of them require custom development or lengthy configuration. They’re the kind of quick wins that make a real, immediate difference to how a fundraising team operates day to day.

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