Our Canvas Cloud retreat in Appleton, Wisconsin, brought opportunities to plan for the future, get creative, and share plenty of laughs! Alissa Arford, director of marketing, shares highlights of the gathering.

If your housing counseling organization is moving away from CounselorMax before the end of 2026, you’re probably weighing your options for a reliable replacement software that will carefully manage client data, preserve historical records, and maintain seamless HUD compliance and reporting. We can help.

Dreamforce offered ambitious demonstrations, emerging customer examples, and plenty of new terminology. We’re leaving with a familiar priority: help organizations make sound decisions for the people who rely on them.

At the beginning of a Salesforce project, everything tends to feel precious. Every feature has an advocate. Every automated email is essential. Every report is urgently needed and every formula field to output summary details on a Contact record is somehow a blocker. The most useful prioritization question isn’t, “Which feature does each stakeholder want most?” It’s, “What outcome is this project supposed to produce?”

Last week, August 26–27, 2026, Daniel Dibble had the opportunity to represent Canvas Cloud at the Coliseum Global Sports Venue Alliance Summit US, hosted at Chicago’s iconic Wrigley Field.

Last week, Daniel Dibble attended the NeighborWorks Training Institute (NTI), August 10-14, 2026, where Canvas Cloud was proud to serve as a sponsor and exhibitor. More than 1,400 professionals came together for a week of training, professional development, peer learning and networking focused on strengthening communities.

Canvas Cloud lead creative strategists Daniel Doodle and Benardo da Vinci give their top 10 expert tips for Dreamforce 2026!

When it comes to Document Lifecycle Management (DLM), a shortsighted approach can create significant gaps in the long term. A poorly matched tool may introduce manual workarounds, compliance risks, low adoption, and expensive migrations later. It’s about more than selecting software, it’s about defining how your organization manages important information throughout its lifecycle, from creation and use to protection, retention, and secure disposal.

Canvas Cloud is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with FinDock, a Salesforce-native payment management platform, as part of the Beyond NPSP initiative. As nonprofits navigate the shift from Salesforce NPSP to Agentforce Nonprofit, this collaboration provides the strategic guidance, payment management expertise, and implementation support needed for a successful transition.

Last week (June 28-30, 2026), Daniel Dibble attended SEAT 2026 in Charlotte, where sports and entertainment leaders gathered to discuss the future of fan experience, venue operations, technology, and data. This was our first time at SEAT, but we’ve helped organizations build Salesforce Centers of Excellence that support multiple venues, departments, events, and business units through a shared platform and governance model.

The Intersolar & Energy Storage North America (IESNA) Midwest 2026 in Rosemont, Illinois, brought together developers, EPCs, manufacturers, utilities, investors, and technology providers for three days of education, networking, and discussion about the future of clean energy in the Midwest. Here are a few takeaways from the event.

Our team at Canvas Cloud has implemented and optimized Salesforce across more than two dozen professional sports venues, including organizations that manage professional baseball, football, basketball, and hockey operations, concerts, special events, nonprofit volunteer programs, and hospitality services.

Last week, I was at Salesforce Connections 2026 in Chicago, and if there was one theme that showed up everywhere, it was this: Salesforce is focused on helping organizations put AI agents to work today. From the opening keynote to customer sessions, workshops, and hallway conversations, Agentforce, Data Cloud, and connected customer experiences dominated the discussion.

Salesforce is rolling out new phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) requirements for high-access users in summer 2026 as part of its broader security roadmap. The change is designed to strengthen protection against modern phishing attacks that can bypass passwords and traditional MFA methods.