Webinars

Tired of check runs, postage, and EFT emails? Introducing a new way to improve efficiency and mitigate risk with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® Payment Assistant™. By partnering with REPAY®, a trusted payments technology platform, you can automate payments natively in Financial Edge NXT. Payment Assistant digitizes and automates how organizations pay vendors, reducing reliance on paper checks and eliminating the need to send sensitive financial information through the mail. During this webinar, you’ll learn how Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant can:

• Help you eliminate paper checks, reducing the risk of theft, fraud, and unauthorized alterations
• Provide robust encryption and authentication measures to safeguard payment data
• Process payments more quickly than traditional paper methods, improving cash flow and reducing time-consuming manual tasks and associated errors
• Give you real-time tracking and reporting for complete visibility into transactions
• Enable you to easily monitor payment status, access detailed reports, and gain valuable insights to optimize your AP workflow
• Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant is included as part of your

Financial Edge NXT subscription at no additional charge.

Connecting with donors on a personal level is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. This webinar will equip you with the strategies to create individualized donor journeys that foster deeper engagement and inspire renewals and upgrades.

We’ll begin by exploring audience segmentation tactics, diving into methods like recency, monetary, frequency (RFM) analysis, interest-based categorization, and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). Once we’ve established how to segment your audience, we’ll move on to compelling content ideas specifically designed to resonate with each unique segment.

Finally, we’ll delve into the practical mechanics of personalization, discussing how to implement these strategies via conditional content or automation or a combination of both, within your email campaigns.

Ready to engage your donors even further? Join us for this insightful webinar and discover the power of personalization.

The world is evolving, and Blackbaud Grantmaking™ is here to support this transformation. Experience the flexibility of Blackbaud Grantmaking on any browser and device, anytime and anywhere.

It enhances your efficiency and communication, providing transparency in your giving process and guidance for you and your stakeholders.

This boosts collaboration and ensures data is at your fingertips for every decision.

Join our live tour to see Blackbaud Grantmaking in action.

Can’t attend live? Watch this recording on demand.

The ability to analyze and act on your financial data is key to building an accountable and financially sustainable organization but you can’t do that if you’re spending all your time manipulating data to manually produce and distribute reports. Join Blackbaud and Reporting Xpress for a discussion about technology and tools that can help make your financial data accessible and actionable. You’ll see Blackbaud’s fund accounting solution in action and learn how it integrates with Reporting Xpress, an automated reporting and report distribution platform, to help your organization:

Save time on both sides of every information request (internal customers and finance department)

Improve service to ”internal customers” and enable non-financial users to quickly and securely access information

Make data-driven decisions and increase accountability across your organization

What is Reporting Xpress and PARIS?

Reporting Xpress is an automated Reporting and Report Distribution platform that integrates with Financial Edge NXT and Raiser’s Edge NXT via the SKY API. The platform can automate custom reports that are challenging for any number of reasons, such as: needing to run large volumes of reports (project reports), you must export data or reports to Excel and combine/massage the data there to get the desired results; reports that hinge on data from multiple systems being merged together, etc.

PARIS (Project Activity Reporting Information System) is a self-service portal and automated report generation and distribution platform that enables non-financial users to quickly and securely access information from Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®️. PARIS leverages the power of and complements Financial Edge NXT. It sits in front of Financial Edge NXT, abstracting non-financial users from the complexity typical of an enterprise financial system.

While most organizations’ strategic plan includes growth of some kind, changes to the landscape this year might make the idea of growth seem impossible. It is important to remember that growth doesn’t always start with expansion. It often begins with focus. In this webinar, we’ll explore how organizations and finance departments can achieve sustainable growth by narrowing their focus to their core mission and then building on from there.

You’ll learn how to align planning and budgeting with your most critical objectives, using a disciplined “sources and uses” approach to allocate resources effectively.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to define your organization’s central purpose and use it as a foundation for all strategic and financial decisions.
• Learn how to map out funding sources and align expenditures to ensure every dollar supports mission-critical activities.
• Discover how to create a flexible, focused budget that supports growth through intentional restriction and resource alignment.

In this session, Strategic Consultant Meghann Batchelor will share a comprehensive report of findings from donorCentrics’ FY24 Public TV and Radio Benchmarking meetings.

While the future of funding from the Corporation for Broadcasting is uncertain, what is clear is that individual, member funding will be more vital than ever to the longevity of these stations. How are donors giving to public media organizations, and what lessons can we learn from the past to apply to a rapidly-changing fundraising landscape?

This report will analyze data and trends from nearly 2 million public media donors, representing over $480M in giving in FY24, including:

• Year-over-year changes to key donor/revenue metrics
• The state of public media acquisition
• Growing, changing sustainer populations
• Channel and revenue shifts
• Lapsed donor recapture

The State of the System will analyze TV and Radio Donors separately to examine how these programs have changed over time, highlight successes and growth, and identify areas of opportunity for the future.

Revolutionize your efforts with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, the world’s most popular and powerful fundraising system.

Purpose-built for the fundraising and engagement needs of social impact organizations, Raiser’s Edge NXT is proven to help raise and retain more revenue to reach and exceed mission goals.

Join us for a tour to learn how Raiser’s Edge NXT powers you to:

• 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

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!

Join us for a live tour of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Blackbaud Grantmaking.

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is a total cloud fund accounting solution designed to meet the unique needs of nonprofit entities and delivers the industry’s best tools to manage financial reporting, monitor program success, and ensure overall integrity for your organization.

Blackbaud Grantmaking is a comprehensive grant management solution that can effectively manage your entire grant cycle—from accepting online applications to assessing and communicating outcomes—all in one purpose-built solution that’s intuitive, scalable, and secure.

To build trust with donors and constituents, you need to show how their support impacted your mission, but this can be difficult without tools to effectively track how each dollar was spent.

Join us for a live tour of the accounting solution built to simplify the way you manage restricted funds. You’ll see Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® in action and learn how it can help your organization:

• Easily verify to donors and constituents that funds were used for their intended purposes
• Share timely information across your organization and reduce ad hoc reporting requests
• Integrate development and finance to reduce duplicative data entry and end of month reconciliation time

As an organization that receives grants, accurately communicating how funds were spent is critical to demonstrating fiscal responsibility to your funders—as well as making sound, strategic decisions for your organization.

Join us for a live tour of the accounting solution built to improve compliance with funding requirements. You’ll see Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® in action and learn how it can help your organization:

• Demonstrate accountability to funders to increase grant renewals and develop a reputation as a fiscally responsible organization
• Track financial activity by grant or contract, generate grant-compliant reports, and enforce budget spending rules
• Ensure that funds are being used only on approved expenditures with advanced user controls
• Allocate expenses based on allowable cost rates without having to rely on complicated spreadsheets

Revolutionize your efforts with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, the world’s most popular and powerful fundraising system.

Purpose-built for the fundraising and engagement needs of social impact organizations, Raiser’s Edge NXT is proven to help raise and retain more revenue to reach and exceed mission goals.

Join us for a tour to learn how Raiser’s Edge NXT powers you to:

• 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

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!