Webinars

It’s estimated that over the next 25 years, Baby Boomers will pass an estimated $70 trillion to younger generations as well as benefit charitable organizations they care about. This transfer has been underway since 2011 when the oldest Boomers turned 65.

Analytics and prospect research help you identify Boomers, Gen X, and Millennial constituents throughout your database for varying segments groups and the cultivation strategies best applied to each, including planned gifts and gifts of assets. This presentation provides both the prospect research management professional and the major gift/planned giving professional specific guidance in identifying them.

This webinar will show you how Blackbaud products can:

• Provide prospect researchers profile-based identification segments
• Learn the analytic attributes and public-record data sources that support each segment
• Take home profile templates that present digestible information to managers and fundraisers
• Provide major gift officers selection criteria scaled to your organization’s donor program and readiness to cultivate gifts of assets from constituents
• Provide planned giving officers selection criteria scaled to your organization’s sophistication and readiness to cultivate planned gifts from constituents
• Learn how to select appropriate giving vehicles to explore and gift solicitation amounts at the prospect-by-prospect level

Looking for creative ways to achieve more with less to drive advancement & institutional success, but aren’t sure where to start? Evaluating how you leverage your current and future scholarships is a great first step.

Join our team as we reveal how to utilize Blackbaud Award Management to effectively leverage your existing scholarships to optimize available funds and positively impact your institution’s bottom line. Learn how you can use Blackbaud solutions to help you accomplish more with your scholarships while using less manual effort to recruit, enroll and retain your institution’s best assets—your students.

During this product tour, you’ll discover:

• Actionable strategies to leverage awards to drive institutional success

• Functionality that enables seamless workflows between enrollment, financial aid & scholarship teams

• Data driven insights to identify best-fit candidates to award

• Capabilities that provide flexible applicant scoring options

• Dynamic awarding capabilities tailored to fit your needs

• Transparency into funds to monitor utilization and spending commitments

Revolutionize your efforts with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, the world’s most popular and powerful fundraising system.

Purpose-built for the fundraising and engagement needs of social impact organizations, Raiser’s Edge NXT is proven to help raise and retain more revenue to reach and exceed mission goals.

Join us for a tour to learn how Raiser’s Edge NXT powers you to:

• 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

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!

Join us for an introduction to Blackbaud Advisory+ for Financial Edge NXT and learn how our consulting services can help you streamline your budgeting process, increase adoption within your organization, and ensure accurate reporting. Our experts will provide a comprehensive overview of the powerful budgeting features of Financial Edge NXT and review best practices for creating and managing budgets.

What we’ll cover:

· Creating a budget: Learn the essential steps and considerations for developing a budget that aligns with your organization’s goals and financial realities.

· Adding data to your budget: Explore the two primary methods for adding data to your budget—manual entry and the import feature—and understand when to use each.

· Budget vs. actual reporting: Discover how to effectively compare your budgeted figures with actual financial performance to identify variances and make informed decisions.

Who should attend:

· This webinar is ideal for finance professionals using Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

Register now to secure your spot and take your budget management to the next level!

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!