CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading
cloud software company powering social good, continues to
demonstrate growth and momentum in K–12 by creating integrated,
seamless digital experiences for leading private schools across the
country. With more than 30 years of industry leadership experience,
Blackbaud has been the trusted partner for K–12 institutions for
decades, providing comprehensive capabilities to connect the whole
school from admissions to fundraising. As it wraps up a landmark
2019, Blackbaud continues to increase efficiencies and drive
revenue for K–12 schools while rapidly growing its customer
base.
"As private schools are facing more competition, it's becoming
even more important for them to operate efficiently while
delivering the exceptional experiences parents, teachers and
students have come to expect," said Travis
Warren, president and GM, Blackbaud K–12 Solutions.
"Blackbaud offers a total school solution that is helping
institutions meet these needs head on by streamlining data flow,
boosting productivity and providing the holistic reporting
necessary for school leaders to make informed, data-driven
decisions."
Growing the Blackbaud K–12 Community With an Integrated Total
School Solution
Leading private schools throughout
North America are seeing the value
and importance of connecting the whole school through Blackbaud.
Since the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year in September, over
800,000 unique parents, students and school faculty and
administrators utilized Blackbaud's education management platform,
which is a 14% increase year-over-year. Additionally, there were
over 32 million total logins in September, up over 30%
year-over-year. These increases reflect the growth in Blackbaud's
customer base as well as the effectiveness of the total school
solution. In 2019, over 300 private schools adopted Blackbaud's
Cloud Solution for K–12 Schools, including:
- Pine Crest School, one of the nation's leading independent
schools. Pine Crest School selected Blackbaud to put a modern,
scalable SaaS solution in place, which will greatly improve data
integrity and the overall experience for parents, teachers and
students.
- The Galloway School, an independent day school serving a
diverse student body located in Atlanta,
GA. Galloway selected Blackbaud as its total school solution
to create efficiencies by eliminating duplicative vendors and
connecting the school across offices and school levels. Galloway
will also take advantage of Blackbaud's comprehensive training,
implementation and post go-live managed services to ensure
long‑term success as it grows with the Cloud Solution for K–12
Schools.
- Punahou School, the largest coeducational, independent K–12
school on a single campus in the U.S. Punahou selected Blackbaud's
Cloud Solution for K–12 as its total school technology partner and
is in the process of implementing Blackbaud solutions across the
school – from tuition management and finance to enrollment and
academic management. The school is also utilizing Blackbaud's
service solutions to support the implementation process.
"Our SIS selection committee selected Blackbaud because we felt
it was the best fit for Punahou – now and into the future. Our
technology team is very excited with the selection of Blackbaud
because it is an integrated solution, which will free up our IT
team to focus more on future technologies for Punahou, like
enhancing our analytics capabilities and exploring more uses of AI.
We feel this is a far better use of our intellectual capacity than
spending our time and energy managing multiple vendors and bridging
the gaps between disparate systems," said Jim LaClair, Chief Information Officer, Punahou
School. "For schools that select Blackbaud as their business
partner, we highly recommend incorporating Blackbaud services with
the implementation. We wouldn't have had the success to date
without the Blackbaud services team to support our implementation
process. The team knows us and our school, and it's made a huge
difference. We've found great value in our partnership with
Blackbaud, and we look forward to all that's to come."
Enhanced Purpose-Built Solutions
As part of
Blackbaud's commitment to continually grow its fully integrated,
comprehensive solution for schools, the company launched several
key enhancements to the Cloud Solution for K–12 Schools over the
past year:
- Blackbaud introduced online Committee Review as part of its
Blackbaud Enrollment Management System™, which
significantly streamlines the candidate review process by providing
a cloud-based hub for enrollment committee members to review
documentation and provide feedback. Available on mobile devices,
Committee Review creates efficiencies and eliminates unnecessary
meetings by enabling admission officers to collaborate anytime,
anywhere.
- Schools can now create their own transcript template to meet
their individual schools' needs and regulatory requirements using
Transcript Builder as part of the Blackbaud Student Information
System™. This capability simplifies the otherwise
complex and time-consuming task of creating a customized
transcript.
- Blackbaud's education management portfolio is now OneRoster
compliant. OneRoster is a standard set of REST application
programming interfaces (APIs), which enable schools to securely and
reliably exchange information about rosters, course materials and
grades between multiple web services. For example, Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, MD is using the OneRoster
integration to connect their Blackbaud student information with
their digital textbook provider, so that resources automatically
populate for the student.
- To ensure private schools deliver highly accessible websites,
Blackbaud School Website System™ achieved compliance
with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines' (WCAG) AA 2.1
standard.
"Blackbaud has been a trusted technology partner for St.
Christopher's School for 23 years. Through Blackbaud solutions,
we've been able to better utilize and understand our data, so we
can create metric-based decisions," said Hiram Cuevas, director of academic technology at
St. Christopher's School and executive director of
Blackbaud K–12 Solutions' advisory board. "The enhancements
that Blackbaud introduced in 2019 are exciting. The continuous
iterations and enhancements to Blackbaud's solutions continue to
strengthen our technology landscape both operationally and
academically. We look forward to all that's to come in 2020."
For more information about Blackbaud's Cloud Solution for K–12
Schools, visit Blackbaud.com/who-we-serve/k-12-schools.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the
world's leading cloud software company powering social good.
Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations,
companies, education institutions, healthcare organizations and
individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers
organizations to increase their impact through cloud software,
services, expertise and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio
is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions
for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer-to-peer
fundraising, corporate social responsibility, school management,
ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing
and analytics. Serving the industry for more than three decades,
Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston,
South Carolina, and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa
Rica and the United
Kingdom. For more information, visit
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