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Whether your organization is just beginning to consider implementing the established Salesforce Advancement solutions or the exciting new Salesforce Education Cloud, Attain Partners is here to help you achieve your goals.

Learn more about Attain Partners and discover how we accelerate the Advancement transformation efforts of organizations nationwide.

Named the 2022 Salesforce Consulting Partner of the Year – Education, Attain Partners is a leading strategy, technology, and compliance consulting firm delivering services and solutions to advance client missions across the education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government landscapes. With nearly 1,000 Salesforce projects completed across a diverse range of clients, Attain Partners has proven experience serving the nation’s top education institutions, including all the Ivy Leagues.

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At Attain Partners, we use our unparalleled expertise serving higher education to help institutions improve student recruitment and retention from undergraduate to lifelong learning, boost alumni engagement and fundraising, and manage operations more efficiently. We fuse our deep understanding of the student lifecycle with proven strategies on how to best architect and use Salesforce to enable institutions to drive engagement in a scalable, comprehensive way.

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ascend Certified Implementation Partner

As an official ascend Certified Implementation Partner with 19 ascend certifications (and counting!) across our team, and as the very first UC Innovation Partner to go live with the ascend solution, Attain Partners has certified proficiency in implementing and leveraging the solution.

Attain Partners has delivered over 300 successful projects in Higher Education since 2005 and is the 2022 Salesforce Consulting Partner of the Year – Education. We’re currently engaged in multiple Advancement projects with our partners at UC Innovation and Salesforce.

These incredible achievements, combined with our Salesforce Summit Partner status and Expert status in Education Cloud, allow us to transform the way Advancement teams work.

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Leveraging ascend for Advancement

Advancement Leaders

Always striving to Be the Best, Attain Partners has dozens of expert team members with Advancement backgrounds, ascend certifications, and experience delivering ascend projects on time and under budget.

Meet Our Team

Alanna Steffens

Senior Principal and Practice Lead
Salesforce Practice

As Attain Partners’ longtime Salesforce Practice Lead, Alanna and her team bring over a decade of experience implementing Salesforce in Higher Education.

Doug Barrow

Higher Education Market Lead
Salesforce Practice

Attain Partners’ Higher Education Lead for our Salesforce Practice and the former Salesforce.org’s Advancement lead for the last five years.

Jason Hunter

Senior Principal / Technical Advisor
Advancement

Bringing over eight years working in Higher Education and nearly two decades developing data technology offerings within high-tech Fortune 50s and 100s, Jason is a seasoned expert—and has successfully led the most complex Salesforce Advancement implementation to date.

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Insights from our thought leaders

Advancement Expert Chris Campbell Joins Attain Partners After Nearly Two Decades in Higher Education

ascend Partner Spotlight - Attain Partners, UC Innovation

Migrating to Salesforce from Raiser’s Edge—Part 3: Portfolio and Moves Management and Third-Party Apps

Thinking of Migrating from Ellucian Advance Web to UC Innovation's ascend?

Education Cloud: Strategic Insights to Navigate the Transformation

Higher Education Technology and Advancement Expert Andrew Whittaker Joins Attain Partners

Navigating the Salesforce Implementation Seas: Lessons Learned from Collaborating with the Michigan SBDC

Creating a Culture of Inclusion with Salesforce

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