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.

Imagine if all your school management software was connected. Blackbaud’s K-12 software connects every office in your school, from admissions and enrollment to academics and athletics, from the business office to the advancement office, and everything in between. You can streamline your operations, engage your students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and donors, and deliver an exceptional educational experience, both online and on-campus.

Join Whitney Donnelly, Blackbaud K-12 Principal Solutions Consultant, Former Teacher, IT Director, and Blackbaud Customer as he demonstrates key features and functionality across all K-12 school offices, driving the outcomes your school needs to be successful in today’s private school environment.

Discover how to create seamless, meaningful donor experiences through automation. In this webinar, we’ll explore strategies for automating key touchpoints in the donor journey—from acquisition to renewal.

Learn how to use tools like surveys, personalized emails, and eNewsletters to enhance engagement, build stronger relationships, and ensure long-term donor retention.

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

In the nonprofit sector, accurate and timely financial data are essential for effective decision-making, ongoing impact, and growth. Is your system designed to support this need? Can you promptly provide your management team and board with relevant and useful data? How much time does your team spend manually updating spreadsheets in Excel? And how does all of this impact your ability to protect and grow incoming revenue?

This webinar will explore best practices for managing financial data and using technology to boost transparency and efficiency. Our expert speakers will address the importance of financial data health, practical tips for keeping accurate and compliant financial records, and how to leverage technology for improved financial management and organizational capacity.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain a Comprehensive Understanding of Financial Data Health: Attendees will gain a deep understanding of the concept of financial data health and its critical role in ensuring the long-term sustainability of their organizations.
• Implement Best Practices for Financial Data Management: The webinar will provide practical tips and strategies for maintaining accurate, compliant, and transparent financial records, helping nonprofits build trust with donors and stakeholders.
• Assess the Effectiveness of Current Systems: Participants will evaluate whether their current financial data management systems support or hinder their organization and determine if a reset or change is needed.

Imagine automating your finance processes and freeing up your team for more strategic work. What if you could boost efficiency and reduce risk with automated accounts payable?

Join us for an insightful webinar on revolutionizing your AP workflows with embedded automation in Financial Edge NXT. Say goodbye to paper-based checks and manual approvals, and discover a faster, more cost-effective, and secure way to manage your invoices. Gain real-time visibility into your payables, streamline efficiency by minimizing manual errors, and enhance security to protect your financial data. Additionally, mitigate risks associated with fraud and compliance issues.

We’ll explore how to streamline expense management with purchase cards, digitize and automate vendor payments with the payment assistant, and simplify bank reconciliation processes.

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your AP workflows and elevate your financial operations with Financial Edge NXT. Register now to secure your spot!

Join us for an enlightening webinar on intentional grateful patient prospecting, led by Danielle Lavon, Founder of Development Data Discovery. Discover how to harness the power of data to identify and engage high-potential prospects, enhancing your grateful patient programs’ effectiveness.

Key Takeaways:

• Identifying High-Potential Prospects: Learn to define and categorize prospects based on capacity, inclination, and affinity.
• Leveraging Data Insights: Understand how to use demographic, visit, and patient modeling data to build and manage your prospect pipeline.
• Effective Data Management: Gain best practices for maintaining clean and actionable data to support your philanthropy efforts.

Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your grateful patient philanthropy initiatives with actionable insights and expert guidance. Register now to secure your spot!

Join us for an insightful webinar where we will explore how YourCause products and partnerships can significantly enhance your disaster relief programs. Hosted in partnership with the Medtronic Foundation, we will share best practices on leveraging technology to facilitate employee engagement programs in times of crisis and disaster.

In this session, we will cover how YourCause CSRconnect and GrantsConnect can be used to support employees and communities after an event occurs through features like Engagement Elements, Match Programs, Community Partnerships, and grant applications. Hear practical advice from the Medtronic Foundation’s Team on how they have redesigned their strategy and operating mechanisms in light of the increasing pace and rate of crisis events.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to effectively enhance your disaster relief efforts and make a lasting impact on your community.

As a mission driven organization, it’s critical to have a donation form that delivers results. Blackbaud’s Optimized Donation forms are proven to boost your fundraising while minimizing costs with $0 transaction fee options.

These intelligent forms are designed to maximize your fundraising efforts, improve the donor experience, streamline administrative tasks, and reduce processing costs. Join this virtual workshop to learn how to set up your own optimized forms.

Designed to prioritize the donor’s experience, Blackbaud’s optimized donation forms are designed to raise more through:

• Intelligent forms that automatically adjust to increase gift amounts based on donor data analysis
• Mobile accessibility and seamless integration on your website without additional webpages
• Streamlined checkout: donors pay directly within the form
• Consistent branding with customizable images and your own mission statement

*We have a few pre-requisites to make sure you are set up for success prior to joining this workshop:

1. This webinar is for existing Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® Customers
2. Make sure you have access to Online Giving
3. Make sure you do not have anything in the “needs attention” section. If so, click here for more information

Each year, donorCentrics® Collaborative Benchmarking compiles fundraising data from a broad sample of large national nonprofits to evaluate overall trends in recurring giving behavior.

Join Blackbaud Senior Principal Consultant and recurring giving expert Paige Grainger to learn key insights from the 2025 donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit, which brings together analysis of 19 million donors and over $3.4 billion from 38 organizations of varying sizes and missions.

Takeaways will include insights into key sustainer metrics and emerging trends from organizations focused on growing their recurring giving populations and how recurring donors have provided stable revenue during fluctuations in giving from single gift donors.

Discussion points include:

• Are single and recurring donor populations shifting? How are recurring donors increasing as a share of the donor base?
• How does retention of recurring gift donors compare to single gifts?
• What sources are used to acquire donors directly to recurring giving?
• Are organizations having success in converting single gift donors to recurring gift donors?
• What’s new trends are emerging in recurring giving?

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.