Webinars

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!

Gone are the days of the sloppy handwritten thank you letters from your scholarship recipients. No longer do you need to spend hours and hours pulling student data to create individual donor reports that you then hand package and ship to your scholarship donors.

Join us for this 60-minute product tour to discover how Blackbaud Stewardship Management™ can help streamline your institution’s current donor stewardship processes to help you drive donor retention and growth efforts while saving you time and energy across the board.

Blackbaud NetCommunity™️ and Blackbaud Online Express™️ have been driving growth in online giving for more than 20 years now. Is now the right time to upgrade your digital fundraising tools?

Join this informative webinar to learn how SJ Consulting has helped many organizations make their successful transition to Blackbaud Donation Forms within Raiser’s Edge NXT®️.

Successful organizations continuously drive growth by leveraging the power of new technologies or related new processes.  In this session, join Mike Reardon, Ph.D., as he leads a discussion of tips and best practices to help you, and your teams navigate through such changes–and do so while still maintaining your core mission.

This session is the first in a series on Change Management and Mike will offer key elements to help lead your team while previewing upcoming sessions where we will dive more deeply into individual topics, including Assessment/Audience Analysis, Communication Planning, Dealing with Resistance, and more.

The expectations of CFOs are constantly evolving, and no one is sure if they’re doing enough. In this webinar, experts from Forvis Mazars will discuss the new role of a CFO as a Chief Future Officer, how you can embrace and promote innovation and forward-thinking at your nonprofit, and three areas where nonprofit CFOs can spearhead transformational change.

Learning Objectives:

1) Develop skills to use the data of today to predict tomorrow

2) How fully utilizing the current technology can position you and the organization for the future

3) Create roadmaps for future planning and develop staff skills to embrace innovation

In today’s challenging financial landscape, nonprofit organizations are tasked with not only fulfilling their missions but also managing their finances with unprecedented precision. Here’s how a strategic approach to financial management can revolutionize nonprofit operations:

• In-Depth Financial Analysis: Engaging in a thorough review of expenses allows nonprofits to uncover hidden costs. This analysis isn’t just about cutting costs but about understanding where every dollar is being spent.
• Strategic Spending Discipline: Implementing a disciplined approach to spending ensures that resources are allocated where they will have the most impact, aligning financial decisions with the organization’s strategic objectives.
• Unveiling Savings Opportunities: Often, savings lie in areas nonprofits might not have the bandwidth to explore. A specialized review can identify these opportunities, from operational efficiencies to better vendor negotiations.
• Risk-Free Financial Optimization: Adopting a contingency fee model for consultancy services means nonprofits can embark on this journey without upfront financial risk. Savings generated fund the consultancy, ensuring the organization benefits financially from the outset.

By embracing these principles, nonprofits can not only enhance their operational efficiency but also strengthen their financial foundation, allowing them to focus more on their mission and less on financial constraints.

Join us to learn more!

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!

Successful organizations continuously drive growth by leveraging the power of new technologies or related new processes.  In this session, join Mike Reardon, Ph.D., as he leads a discussion of tips and best practices to help you, and your teams navigate through such changes–and do so while still maintaining your core mission.

This session is the first in a series on Change Management and Mike will offer key elements to help lead your team while previewing upcoming sessions where we will dive more deeply into individual topics, including Assessment/Audience Analysis, Communication Planning, Dealing with Resistance, and more.

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:

1. Save time on both sides of every information request (internal customers and finance department)
2. Improve service to “internal customers” and enable non-financial users to quickly and securely access information
3. Make data-driven decisions and increase accountability across your organization

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!

Fundraising and finance are the two critical functions that keep your organization running but oftentimes these teams can feel disconnected. But what if your technology enabled you to get these two teams on the same page, empowered them with the right data, and offered visibility into how money flows through the organization from funding to disbursement? Join us for a live tour of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT and Financial Edge NXT, the integrated solution that will give your team the foundational tools to do their jobs efficiently and keep your funders informed and engaged. Whether you work in fundraising, finance, or leadership, you’ll see how technology can help these two teams work together to drive more impact for your organization.

As 1099 season approaches, ensure your organization is prepared and stress-free by leveraging Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. In this webinar, you’ll learn best practices for efficiently managing your end-of-year financial tasks, including generating and processing 1099 forms, and reconciling accounts. Join us to discover how Financial Edge NXT can streamline your workflow and help you close the calendar year with confidence.

Who should attend:

This webinar is ideal for finance professionals, accountants, and administrators who use Financial Edge NXT and are responsible for managing end-of-year financial tasks, particularly the generation and processing of 1099 forms.

Key learning objectives:

Here are three key objectives that the audience will learn during the webinar:

1. Streamlining 1099 Processing: How to efficiently generate and process 1099 forms using Financial Edge NXT, reducing manual work and minimizing errors.
2. 1099 Reconciliation: Techniques for reconciling 1099’s with accuracy and confidence.
3. Optimizing 1099’s: Tips and strategies for utilizing the full potential of Financial Edge NXT to simplify end-of-year financial tasks and improve overall workflow efficiency.