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

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 Learn how USC Foundations overcame obstacles such as outdated workflows, integration hurdles, and initial resistance to change to build a seamless, automated, cloud-based system.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.

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!

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

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

Blackbaud ResearchPoint™ is the most comprehensive software for donor prospect research.
Blackbaud’s ResearchPoint can make it easy for your team to consume and act on the data. Do more with workflows designed specifically for nonprofit prospect researchers, from simple segmentation to complex campaign planning.

In this webinar series we will cover topics to help you uncover hidden potential in your database by exploring different topics and use cases within the product.

Are you ready to take your prospect research to the next level?

Session 3: Administrative Functions

• Managing Users/System Roles
• Global Changes
• Custom Attributes
• Importing/exporting in ResearchPoint