Webinars

In the current challenging landscape, nonprofit organizations are grappling with heightened pressures—from reduced budgets to a lack of tools and an urgent need to adopt new skills quickly. Deliberate strategies around donor cultivation and engagement, innovation, and resourcing are essential for these organizations not only to sustain their performance but to thrive and flourish in the long term.

This webinar will feature new research from the Blackbaud Institute into the ways that modern fundraisers in the United States are leveraging tech integration and AI tools to drive success, despite uncertainty. Join us for a discussion on this data, with expert recommendations for organizations navigating the convergent pressures of tech adoption with the fluctuating economy.

Takeaways will include:

• Action steps to take in July for resilience through year-end
• The key drivers of success for fundraisers in the United States today
• A focused look on how to get the most out of your tech investment
• How AI tools can level up your engagement during economic uncertainty

We are thrilled to present the latest enhancements and releases for Blackbaud Donation Forms.

Join us to see demonstrations of recent releases,and get a sneak peek at upcoming developments. Our product experts will be available for a Q&A session, so bring your questions!

This session will cover several exciting new features:

• Set recurring processing dates on Standard Form
• Tribute enhancements in Optimized Form and Online Data Review
• More updates to Optimized Form including Social Sharing and Recurring Gift Upsell
• Expanded hyperlink parameters

Embarking on a journey of digital transformation is not without its challenges, but the rewards can be game-changing. Learn how USC Foundations overcame obstacles such as outdated workflows, integration hurdles, and initial resistance to change to build a seamless, automated, cloud-based system.

This session will guide you through their step-by-step process, from tackling the transition to new accounting software to integrating partners and converting vendors to EFT. Their success story serves as proof that with the right strategy and commitment, the path to a robust digital backbone is achievable for organizations of all sizes.

Are you ready to show families the value of their child’s education, give teachers a single place to manage their many responsibilities, and empower administrators with real-time insights? Blackbaud’s Total School Solution is designed to do just that—by connecting your entire school community through one intuitive platform.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how Blackbaud’s decades of experience in K–12 education have shaped a solution that simplifies daily tasks, strengthens engagement, and supports smarter decision-making. You’ll see how a unified database and single login create a seamless experience for every user—whether they’re in the classroom, the front office, or at home.

Join us to discover how Blackbaud’s Total School Solution helps families stay connected and engaged in their child’s learning journey. Teachers manage classes, communication, and grading—all in one place. administrators gain a clear, comprehensive view of school operations. Plus, get a firsthand look at how the parent experience is elevated across Blackbaud’s K–12 education management portfolio.

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.

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.

Join us for an introduction to Blackbaud Advisory+ for Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® and learn how our consulting services can help you streamline your data processes using the Total Web Solution. We’ll cover best practices for importing in Financial Edge NXT, guide you through the new importing experience, share actionable best practices, and demonstrate how partnering with a Blackbaud subject matter expert can help your organization adopt these changes with confidence and long-term success.

What You’ll Learn:

Understanding the New Importing Workflow in Finacial Edge NXT: Discover how the Total Web Solution transforms traditional importing methods. We’ll walk through the updated interface, key features, and how it integrates with your existing workflows.

Best Practices for Clean, Accurate, and Efficient Imports: Learn how to prepare your data for import, avoid common pitfalls, and ensure accuracy. We’ll share tips and templates that can save time and reduce errors, helping you maintain data integrity across your organization. Change Management

Strategies for a Smooth Transition: Understand how to prepare your team for the shift to the new importing process. We’ll cover communication tips, training resources, and strategies to build internal buy-in and ensure a smooth, organization-wide rollout.

Why Attend?

Implementing new processes can be challenging—but you don’t have to do it alone. Our Blackbaud experts bring deep product knowledge and nonprofit experience to help you turn technology into a strategic advantage. Let us help you make the most of your investment in Financial Edge NXT.

Blackbaud and Turnitin are bringing an enhanced Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) integration to the Blackbaud Learning Management System™ (LMS).

Meet with product managers from both Blackbaud and Turnitin as they demo the new integration and highlight some of the key workflow differences that the enhanced integration brings. If you’re an existing Turnitin customer, you’ll learn how to move your LTI 1.1 connection to the enhanced LTI 1.3 version, while still retaining your historical assignment information.

You’ll also get a chance to learn a little of how Turnitin is updating the LTI 1.3 integration to better meet the needs of faculty at your school!

Join Blackbaud and Giving Docs for a dynamic 45-minute webinar designed to help nonprofits develop and grow successful planned giving programs. In this session, we’ll explore the strategic foundations of planned giving, share best practices for getting started or expanding your impact, and demonstrate how integrated tools can accelerate results.

You’ll hear how organizations can use Prospect Insights Pro to identify high-potential planned giving donors with clarity and precision, turning data into actionable opportunities. Then, we’ll show how Giving Docs empowers those donors with a modern, accessible, and easy-to-use platform to create their legacy—making the journey from intention to impact remarkably simple.

Featuring insights from Carrie Goldberger of Blackbaud and Brantley Boyett of Giving Docs, this webinar offers a complete roadmap to planned giving success—from pinpointing the right donors to enabling them to take meaningful action. Whether you’re building your program from the ground up or looking to enhance what you already have, this session will provide valuable guidance and tools to help you thrive.

Grab your sunglasses and dive into summer strategy with a refreshing look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of fundraising. In this fun and fast-paced session, Kelly Merrion will guide you through the powerful pairing of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® and Prospect Insights Pro—showing how to work smarter (not just harder) this giving season.

Using new insights from the Blackbaud Institute’s Status of Fundraising 2025 report, we’ll spotlight how AI is helping education institutions like yours:

• Build a strong pool of qualified major donor prospects
• Clear out low-potential records and focus your energy
• Surface hidden blended gift opportunities
• Move from reactive to proactive with smarter modeling and data-driven strategy

Whether you’re basking in vacation mode or powering through FY planning, this webinar is your chance to trade in beach novels for real fundraising intelligence. We’ll even suggest adding the Status of Fundraising 2025 report to your summer reading list—because what’s cooler than using data to drive real results?

Who should attend:

Fundraising professionals and advancement leaders in K–12 and higher education looking to boost results through smarter prospecting and AI-powered insight.

Make a splash this summer—register now and get ready to turn up the heat on your fundraising strategy!

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.

Discover how organizations as diverse as hospital foundations, leading cancer research centers, prestigious universities, and innovative K-12 schools have harnessed the power of Financial Edge NXT’s customization and integration. Hear their inspiring stories of overcoming unique challenges to achieve seamless workflows, groundbreaking efficiencies, and extraordinary successes!

You’ll hear from:

MUSC Foundation

• Wanted a high level of front-end calculation work to be done on their reimbursement requests
• Needed to track user permissions for other systems, live track spendable balances on front-end of reimbursement requests, and compare requests actively against AP policy/IRS limits
• Wanted integration between financial and CRM platforms, tying data together from both to create division-level snapshots of contributions and distributions

Well-Known Cancer Research Organization

• Found a creative use of custom fields for reporting
• Needed to track reporting categories, project administrators, authorized signatories, and region – multitasking custom fields for integrated system permissions
• Used custom fields to track associated projects (endowed funds with their spendable counterparts)
• Needed to send yearly donor letters with snapshots of the endowed funds

Prominent University

• Creatively used custom fields on records to easily split spendable versus non-spendable activity within donor restricted funds

Other Organizations

• Outside-the-box uses of chart organizer and account structure
• Needed to run activity reporting for individual grants
• Implemented top-of-the-line CRM and fund accounting integration practices