Webinars

As CRM director for The Salvation Army, Tim McCleary supports fundraising and operations for the nine divisions of the Southern Territory. The Southern Territory relies primarily on Blackbaud CRM™ as their fundraising database of record receives a set of predictive model scores from Blackbaud which help them assess financial capacity and likelihood to give across their donor base.

Concerned about inconsistency in adoption and activity logging across the organization’s numerous groups, Tim used PowerBI to develop a comprehensive “major giving dashboard” to streamline goal setting, performance measurement, and portfolio moves management across the organization. Join us for a discussion of Tim’s journey with PowerBI and best practices for employing it at your organization.

As email revenue continues its decline, text messaging will play a larger role during this year-end giving season. So how do nonprofits “get it right” with texting and maximize the sizable opportunity that lies ahead in November and December?

This webinar will outline four keys to raising more money from text messaging this GivingTuesday through early January.

We’ll examine key factors that increase text conversion rates and average gift amount. We’ll also take a close look at the type, timing and frequency of text messages that have helped nonprofits raise more money during the holiday season – including lots of examples from 2023.

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

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!

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.​

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.

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!

As the year-end approaches, the race to meet fundraising goals heats up. Join us for an engaging and dynamic webinar with Rosita Bradham, senior principal customer success manager at Blackbaud, where she shares the secrets to supercharging your major gift fundraising efforts.

In this session, we will dive into:

• Decoding Donor Patterns: Uncover insights from key donors’ past contributions to predict and enhance future support.
• Community Challenges: Spark community spirit and boost participation through innovative group challenges.
• Maximizing Matching Gifts: Amplify individual donations by promoting matching gift opportunities.
• Corporate Partnerships: Double your impact by collaborating with corporations to match employee donations.
• Incentivizing with Challenge Gifts: Motivate donors with challenge gifts that set exciting and achievable goals—GivingTuesday is the perfect kick-off!

Get ready to transform your fundraising strategy and make this year-end your most successful yet!

As the year-end giving season approaches, nonprofits and fundraising professionals focus on their campaigns. But what happens after the donations come in?

In this webinar, Matt will explore strategies to extend the impact of your end-of-year campaign. From personalized thank-you messages to ongoing donor communication, he’ll share practical tips for nurturing donor relationships beyond the transactional phase. No matter the size of your organization, this webinar will equip you with actionable steps to enhance donor retention and loyalty.​

Key Takeaways:​

• Crafting meaningful post-campaign communications​.
• Leveraging storytelling to connect donors to your mission.
• ​Implementing donor recognition practices​Building a year-round stewardship plan​.

Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your donor relationships and create lasting impact. Register now!