Session Presentations

We hope you’re ready for three action-packed days of networking, learning, and fun. Our goal is to ensure that all attendees find information that meets their needs and get answers to the questions that keep them up at night.  That’s why we’re offering over 110 sessions across 10 tracks, covering topics most pressing to nonprofit professionals. In each well-planned session you’ll receive advice that can help you better do your job as soon as you return to the office.

Enjoy a sneak preview of each session by clicking the links below (PDF).

• Creating Effective Policies and Procedures for The Raiser's Edge
• Customizing Your Raiser's Edge Database
• Dashboards in The Raiser’s Edge: Reporting Made Easy
• Enhancing the Partnership Between Development Officers and Development Services
• Introduction to Mail Merging
• Lights, Camera, Action Tracks!
• Maximizing Event Productivity with The Raiser's Edge
• Ready, Set, Import!
• Save Time and Energy! Use The Raiser's Edge More Efficiently
• Simple Crystal Reports® for Development Offices
• Small Fish, Big Pond: Making The Raiser's Edge Work for Small Departments in Large Organizations
• Successful Mailings in the Raiser's Edge + Handout
• Top Five Most Frequently Asked Questions from Raiser's Edge Support
• Tributes: More than Just Memorial Gifts

• Beyond the Basics: Advanced Importing in The Raiser's Edge
• Creative Querying in The Raiser's Edge
• Custom Reporting On-Demand: Advanced Pivot Reports
• Demonstrate Your Effectiveness: Optimizing Campaigns, Funds, and Appeals
• Integrating The Raiser's Edge and The Financial Edge
• Moves Management in The Raiser's Edge
• New Users, New Processes, New Software? A Methodology for Successfully Implementing Change
• PCI — Technical Impact of the Blackbaud Payment Service
• Preparing The Raiser's Edge for the Internet Age
• Using the Raiser's Edge for Prospect Management
• Rescue My Database!
• Solid State Crystal: Advanced Crystal Reporting
• The Raiser's Edge and the Generational Divide
• The Raiser's Edge: Stabilization and Optimization

• Allocating Overheads in The Financial Edge
• Exploring New Grant Functionality in The Financial Edge 
• FASB Update — A Review of Standards Issued in the Past Year
• Financial Reporting — What Every Finance Officer Needs to Know
• Financial Controls for Nonprofits; Handout 1, 2
• Financial Management with Training Wheels; Handout 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 
• Financial Reporting for the Masses — Distributed Financial Reports
• Financial Signs of Strategic Goofs; Handout 1, 2, 3, 4 
• Future Plans for The Financial Edge — A Road Map Preview (no PPT available)
• Getting The Most out of The Financial Edge
• Going Paperless — Take Your Financial Documents into the 21st Century!
• How Accountable Are You? 
• Integrating The Raiser's Edge and The Financial Edge
• Internal Controls and Time Savers in Accounting Software
• Measures that Matter: Dashboarding Financial Ratios
• The Financial Edge Portal: Web Purchasing (no PPT available)
• The Heat is On — What Your Organization Needs To Know in the New Tax-Exempt World
• The Power of Querying and Exporting in The Financial Edge™
• The True Cost of Fundraising
• UPMIFA — The New State Laws for Managing Endowment Funds

• Business Intelligence on the Infinity Platform
• Cool Things You Can Do with the Blackbaud NetCommunity OpenPlatform
• Emerging Technology: What’s on the Horizon for Blackbaud (no PPT available)
• Introduction to the Infinity SDK
• PCI Compliance and Blackbaud Payment Service
• Performance Testing on the Infinity Platform
• Test Technology: Ensuring Quality through Robust Automation
• Using the Infinity SDK
• WebPurchasing: Web Development using Blackbaud’s 7.X API and Emerging Technologies

• All Fundraising is Still Personal: How Personal Relationships Still Matter in this Age of New Media
• Are You Ready To Start a Planned Gift Program
• Campaigning in a Tight Economy
• Challenges of Fundraising in the 21st Century
• Creating Extraordinary Ideas To Attract Extraordinary Donors
• Donor Retention: From Analysis to Action
• Enhance Your Planned Giving Program with the Right Marketing Strategies
• Mid-Level Donors: How to Get ’em, Grow ’em, and Keep ’em
• The True Cost of Fundraising

• Alternative Uses for Blackbaud Analytics Data
• Building a Partnership between Prospect Research and Major Gifts
• Designing and Executing Peer Screening
• Leveraging Cooperative Data To Build Your Donor Base
• Proactive Prospect Research
• Prospecting and Moves Management: Finding New Donors and Keeping Your Pipeline Flowing
• Prospecting in a Restricted Environment
• The Value of Data — So Much Data, So Little Time
• You Are Not Alone! Make New Friends and Learn from Peers through Collaborative Benchmarking

• 25 Take-Aways to Kick-Start Multi-Channel Fundraising in Your Nonprofit
• A Deep Dive into Sphere eMarketing
• Branding Power! Advance Your Mission and Raise More Money
• Cool Tools — Using the Latest Internet Tools to Engage New Supporters
• Deep Dive into Blackbaud NetCommunity
• Direct Marketing — A Primer for Managing a Direct Marketing Program
• Is Email Dying? Shaping Your Constituent’s Online Experience
• Make Waves: Socially Engaging Your Constituents with Blackbaud NetCommunity
• Online Options To Grow Your Base of Supporters and Donors
• Public Relations Boot Camp for Nonprofits: Focus on Media Kits; short version
• The Fountain of Youth: Communicating with the Next Generation
• The New World of Email Communications: The Basics for Beginning an Email and Web Centric Program for Relationship Building
• The Power of Friendship — Best Practices for Raising Funds through Online Events
• The Right Message, the Right People, the Right Time: Making the Most of Email Marketing
• The State of the Industry: The “Customer” Rules
• The World Wide Web Show — Turn Your Staff into Stars with the Real-Time Social Web
• What’s New at Blackbaud? The Blackbaud Direct Marketing Solution
• What Social Networks Should Be Doing for You

• Global Philanthropy: How a Flattening World Is Changing the Fundraising Landscape
• Partnering for a Brighter Future: Lessons Learned Employing a Blackbaud Enterprise Environment
• PCI — The Credit Card Changes that Will Impact You!
• Seismic Tremors along the Three Tectonic Plates of Fundraising’s Environment: Socio-Economic Change, Nonprofit Growth, Philanthropic
• The Cost of Turnover and Impact on Your Fundraising Systems
• The Staff, Board, and Fundraising — Whose Job Is It Anyway?
• The Story-Driven Board: Creating Leaders, Storytellers, and Champions
• Tying It All Together: Quality, Accessibility, and Stability
• Using Consultants for a Competitive Advantage
• Wealth and Philanthropy in America

• Best Practices for Successful Integration for Cultural Solutions
• Creating Extraordinary Ideas To Attract Extraordinary Donors
• The Staff, Board, and Fundraising — Whose Job Is It Anyway?
• Tying It All Together: Quality, Accessibility, and Stability
• Tips and Tricks for The Patron Edge and The Patron Edge Online

• Best Practices for Maintaining Data Integrity in Blackbaud's School Solutions
• Creating Statements Using Student Billing
• Managing the Student Life Cycle at Your Small College to Create Alumni Support
• Student Billing Open Item Best practices — Using Blackbaud Software to Better Collect Receivables
• Taking Blackbaud’s School Solution Online
• Tips and Tricks for The Education Edge; handout 1, 2, 3