Webinars

Join us for an insightful and engaging webinar featuring James Candido, account executive, and Kelly Merrion, principal solutions engineer, both seasoned fundraising experts from Blackbaud.

This session will delve into how Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® can revolutionize major gift fundraising efforts in Higher Education, bringing together executives, fundraisers, and advancement services team members for a unified approach.

Key Takeaways:

• For executives: Learn how Raiser’s Edge NXT® supports major gift work through comprehensive reporting and fund analysis
• For fundraisers: Discover the power of the Work Center, Moves Management, Prospect Insights, Data Intelligence, and Segmentation to enhance your fundraising strategies
• For advancement services: Explore the integration of online giving components, optimized forms, donor cover, and the management of pledges, stocks, and planned giving

Come see why Raiser’s Edge NXT® is different and how it can help your team achieve greater success in major giving!

Advancement leaders operate in an ever-changing environment all while managing a team of fundraisers, expanding their reach, finding new donors and increasing contributions. The demands of the job have never been more challenging!

Blackbaud research reveals that 53% of assigned prospects are not getting visited, and 67% of best prospects may not even be assigned at all. Additionally, on average, gift officers typically stay in their roles for less than three years, further challenging achievement of your campaign goals.

Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management™️ is designed to make it easier and more predictable to manage fundraisers and use data to hit fundraising goals. Join us for this 60-minute session to learn how Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management can help you:

• Coordinate major gifts and leadership annual gifts pipelines while enhancing portfolio health
• Customize strategies that drive gift officer “productivity” rather than mere activity
• Expand audience segmentation beyond donor status to boost renewal, retention, and acquisition for annual giving teams
• Empower front-line fundraisers with powerful tools for informed decision-making aligned with organizational objectives

As times continue to change and student needs evolve, student access to scholarship funds and cross-functional visibility into your scholarship and award cycle is vital to student success! By taking control of your award cycle, you are able to ensure students are connected to scholarship and award opportunities, more fully utilize available funding, create and unbiased awarding process, and save time on donor impact reporting — all while providing a modern, digital experience for students and stakeholders alike.

Join our upcoming webinar to uncover how Blackbaud’s Award Management and Stewardship Management systems can help you save time and optimize operations across the board.

Thousands of nonprofit organizations just like yours have used Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge® to manage tasks like gift entry, acknowledgements, direct response lists, and tax receipting. While Raiser’s Edge is still an excellent fundraising database and CRM, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® contains a suite of features and functionality that will help you raise more–smarter.

Come to one of the interactive sessions in this webinar series to see what Raiser’s Edge NXT could bring to your organization.

Have a unique use case that you’re unsure whether Raiser’s Edge NXT can handle? Share your questions ahead of time and our presenters will be sure to cover it during the session!

In this webinar for current Financial Edge®️ customers, you’ll learn about the ways your organization will become more efficient, accountable, and data-driven when you migrate to Financial Edge NXT. Join us to see how a migration can help you:

• Save time and reduce errors by eliminating manual data entry
• Simplify reporting to show your data the way you want, drill down into data, and easily share data with customizable dashboards
• Connect your financial team from any location, and securely share reports with other non-financial users on a view-only basis
• Easily customize and scale your solution with access to our vast partner network

Can’t make it live? No worries, we’ll send you a recording for on-demand viewing within 24 hours!

Get more done faster to supercharge your year-end campaign using AI. In this webinar, hosted by Griff Bohm, fundraising expert and fundraising.ai committee member, we will cover 8 ways you can use AI to help with giving season that go well beyond simple copywriting tasks. Learn some of the tools and prompts out there that will help you develop visuals (images and video), as well as methods that you can use to plan, execute, and optimize your campaigns along the way.​

Takeaways:

• Explore how standard AI tools can be used to help plan, brainstorm, and develop your year-end fundraising campaigns.​
• Discover multi-modal AI models that can generate assets like images, videos, and more to speed up design cycles.​
• Experiment with some of the leading tools on the market.​

Thousands of nonprofit organizations just like yours have used Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge® to manage tasks like gift entry, acknowledgements, direct response lists, and tax receipting. While Raiser’s Edge is still an excellent fundraising database and CRM, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® contains a suite of features and functionality that will help you raise more–smarter.

Come to one of the interactive sessions in this webinar series to see what Raiser’s Edge NXT could bring to your organization.

Have a unique use case that you’re unsure whether Raiser’s Edge NXT can handle? Share your questions ahead of time and our presenters will be sure to cover it during the session!

Higher Ed Annual Giving programs are at a pivotal moment in time. Please join fundraising experts, Brian Kish and Stacy Rooney, as they add context to data trends emerging from hundreds of institutions.

Leveraging data from both the donorCentrics and Fundraiser Performance Management communities, Brian and Stacy dive into topics such as:

• Higher Education climate in 2024
• Annual Giving Trends emerging from FY24
• How to think about strategy for 2025 and beyond

This annual webinar is an opportunity to find inspiration for the year ahead with insights into the best strategies for the current environment.

Engaging new audiences, delivering impactful programs, and ensuring a seamless ticket-buyer experience while raising critical funds is challenging. Data silos and manual processes hinder growth and community impact, leading to missed fundraising opportunities and disjointed patron experiences.

Enrich the guest experience and set your fundraisers up for success!

Blackbaud Altru™️ is a comprehensive ticketing, fundraising, and membership management software designed for general admission cultural organizations. It empowers you to raise more for your mission.

Join us for this 60-minute session and product tour to learn how Blackbaud Altru can help you:

• Turn first-time ticket buyers into members and donors
• Enhance employee engagement and maximize your team’s potential
• Enrich the guest experience and build high-impact supporter relationships
• Confidently pursue your goals while making data-informed decisions

Join us for a tour of the leading nonprofit CRM software built specifically for fundraisers to power your organization. Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is proven to increase the number of donors, number of gifts, and total dollars raised.

Get an exclusive look at the tech in action to see how you can:

• Raise more revenue using a proven system with fundraising expertise built in
• Centralize your work, with everything fundraisers need in one place
• Grow with confidence, with the system depth and flexibility to help you achieve your most ambitious goals

As a prospect research software, Blackbaud ResearchPoint™ allows you to build comprehensive wealth profiles, manage lists of prospective donors, and access publicly available wealth and asset data. In these sessions, we will be walking through the ResearchPoint database, and the tools and features embedded within it.

• Administrative Functions
• Managing Users/System Roles
• Global Changes
• Custom Attributes
• Importing/Exporting in ResearchPoint

Stand out from the crowd by creating an inspiring online giving experience this GivingTuesday.

In this webinar, Allison King and Amy Matthews from Blackbaud University will share proven tactics to help your donation forms stand out and motivate your audience to take action.

Learn strategies for designing, testing, and optimizing your donation forms for maximum impact. Explore how to align your donation forms with your overall GivingTuesday strategy, and discover how to create a compelling online donation experience that engages donors and makes giving easy and enjoyable.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your donation forms and increase your GivingTuesday donations!