Blackbaud Rallies Thousands of Social Good Professionals at bbcon 2021 Virtual
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Blackbaud Product Innovation and Announcements
Blackbaud's top commitment is helping customers drive more impact. To that end, the company shared several innovations aimed at enabling customers to work more effectively and to reinvent the way they accomplish outcomes and track results.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking™ Enhancements:
The recently updated Blackbaud Grantmaking experience is making work smoother and more effective, with grantmaking technology now available anywhere via any browser on any device. Powered by Blackbaud SKY UX®, the new interface serves up capabilities from multiple products in one place, connecting fundraising, fund management and grantmaking. Automation capabilities and built-in contact relationship management workflows free up more time to focus on other tasks, all while providing users with a holistic view of the relationships driving their grantmaking.
- Accounts Receivable in Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®:
Many Blackbaud customers rely on accounts receivable—for example, to receive funds from grantors, tuition payments or service fees. Blackbaud is transforming how the social good community manages these functions with new workflows in Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. Customers will soon be able to generate an invoice with complex distribution line items, send it via email and take payment for that invoice with a credit card or check—all from the same screen.
- Payment Terminal Launch:
With Blackbaud's recently launchedPayment Terminal , organizations with in-person visitors can now receive secure, contactless chip and tap payments for tickets and donations via an integrated experience between Blackbaud Altru® and Blackbaud Merchant Services™. Not only does this help organizations welcome visitors more safely, but payment processing is three times faster than with magnetic swipe devices. In addition, users can conveniently reconcilePayment Terminal transactions with any other transactions made via Blackbaud Merchant Services.
- Expanded Developer Platform and
Blackbaud Marketplace :
With theBlackbaud Marketplace , customers have access to an open platform that connects Blackbaud software to the rest of their tech stack and extends the software with additional capabilities.The Blackbaud Marketplace has seen more than 150% growth since its launch, and over 6,400 organizations have already utilized a marketplace offering to help them work smarter. Blackbaud has created more tools enabling its ecosystem of 5,500 external developers to create new capabilities that extend Blackbaud solutions. In addition, Blackbaud is helping more people act as developers with no-code or low-code tools such as the Microsoft Power Platform connector, which allows users to build automated workflows using SKY API®.
- New Data Intelligence Capabilities, Including Blackbaud Giving Search:
Blackbaud's Intelligence for Good® approach combines unmatched data, sector-specific expertise, artificial intelligence and robust analytic methodologies—all optimized to enable social good organizations to achieve their most important outcomes. With data intelligence capabilities embedded in Blackbaud software, customers receive actionable constituent insights and benchmarking tools that enable data-driven decisions in order to optimize fundraising programs and move their mission forward. Blackbaud announced that it will introduce a new search experience powered by Blackbaud SKY® early next year in Blackbaud Giving Search—the world's most robust searchable database of philanthropic giving. In addition, Blackbaud will release a new wave of data intelligence capabilities in 2022 focused on delivering AI-powered predictions within Blackbaud solutions, starting with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® and expanding to other Blackbaud software in the future.
- Launch of Giving Checkout Featuring Complete Cover in the
U.S. :
With the growth in online giving, optimizing donor experience and reducing the cost of online transactions is mission critical for social good organizations. Blackbaud announced theU.S. launch of Giving Checkout, an easy-to-use, standalone donation button that can be used by any nonprofit organization, featuring Complete Cover, a powerful new model that covers the full cost of processing, so that social good organizations receive 100% of their donor's gift. With Complete Cover, Blackbaud empowers donors to choose at checkout if they want to contribute to processing costs. This donor coverage is optional, but Blackbaud will cover the processing costs no matter what the donor decides—so organizations receive free processing for every donation. Blackbaud previously released Giving Checkout with Complete Cover on its JustGiving® platform in theU.K. , testing the model across more than 20 million donations totaling over$1 billion . Giving Checkout with Complete Cover is now available toU.S. organizations, with additional markets to follow. Blackbaud plans to expand the Complete Cover model to additional products, transaction types and countries in the future as feedback is received.
- Free Blackbaud University Basic eLearning Courses:
Recognizing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, Blackbaud has made its entire curriculum of recordedBlackbaud University basic eLearning courses available for free to all customers. Last year alone, this community logged more than 260,000 training hours—the equivalent of more than 30 years of training, learning and professional growth. On average, customers who completeBlackbaud University instructor-led courses report increasing fundraising by 15% and saving six hours per week due to increased efficiency. There were more than 13,000 new Blackbaud Certified® recognitions granted last year.
Learn more about Blackbaud's innovation and recent developments at the company's Product Update Briefings later this month.
Blackbaud Gives Back
bbcon has a tradition of giving back as a community. This year, Blackbaud partnered with Goodera to bring virtual volunteering opportunities to bbcon attendees to benefit underserved children and people living with disabilities. bbcon participants recorded audiobooks for Ronald McDonald House Charities
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