As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, 2006

Registration Statement No. 333-122122

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE
AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO

FORM S-1

ON

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

BLACKBAUD, INC.

Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		11-2617163 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

2000 Daniel Island Drive
Charleston, South Carolina 29492
Telephone: (843) 216-6200
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

MARC E. CHARDON
President and Chief Executive Officer
Blackbaud, Inc.
2000 Daniel Island Drive
Charleston, South Carolina 29492
Telephone: (843) 216-6200
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

DONALD R. REYNOLDS
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
(919) 781-4000
Fax (919) 781-4865

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

     Blackbaud, Inc. (the “Registrant”) filed a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-122122), as amended on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), which registered 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Registrant for sale by the selling stockholders named therein. The offering contemplated by the Registration Statement has terminated. Pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement, the Registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to deregister the shares registered by the Registration Statement that remained unsold as of the termination of the offering.

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this amendment to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charleston, State of South Carolina, on this 6th day of November 2006.

		BLACKBAUD, INC.
		By:		/s/ Marc E. Chardon
				Marc E. Chardon, Chief Executive Officer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment to Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature		Capacity		Date
/s/ Marc E. Chardon		President, Chief Executive Officer
Marc E. Chardon		and Director (Principal Executive Officer)		November 6, 2006
/s/ Timothy V. Williams		Vice President and Chief Financial
Timothy V. Williams		Officer (Principal Financial and		November 6, 2006
		Accounting Officer)
/s/ George H. Ellis
George H. Ellis		Director		November 6, 2006
/s/ Marco W. Hellman
Marco W. Hellman		Director		November 6, 2006
/s/ Andrew M. Leitch
Andrew M. Leitch		Director		November 6, 2006
/s/ John P. McConnell
John P. McConnell		Director		November 6, 2006