CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software
company powering social good, announces today the general
availability of its groundbreaking Blackbaud Church Management™
solution, which is already transforming the church technology
landscape, and the continued expansion and growth of its Cloud
Solution for Faith Communities. The announcement is being made at
bbcon, Blackbaud's three-day tech gathering specifically designed
to empower the social good ecosystem, including faith
communities.
For decades, Blackbaud has been helping thousands of
denominations and ministries connect their organizations, and just
last year, Blackbaud announced the expansion of its Cloud Solution
for Faith Communities with the introduction of Blackbaud Church
Management. Now, a year later, Blackbaud is digitally transforming
the day‑to‑day operations of churches by offering solutions that
can reduce their IT footprint by eight to 12 systems; creating a
truly connected church experience.
"We have already heard from our faith customers what a
difference our solutions are making in their congregations – our
solution is intuitive and easy-to-use, cloud-based and completely
mobile responsive, so you can easily look up a member, jot down a
note, check in attendees, pull a report or take a quick look at a
dashboard, all from your mobile device," said Kevin Knight, president and general manager,
Blackbaud Faith Solutions. "We are a committed and reliable partner
to churches as we continue to invest in our solutions and
capabilities specifically designed for their
needs."
Within just one year of announcing plans for Blackbaud Church
Management, the company now serves churches in more than half of
the 50 U.S. states, representing congregations of all different
sizes and spanning more than 10 denominations. Key capabilities
that are revolutionizing the day‑to‑day operations of these
customers and bringing congregations closer together include:
- Seamless management of small groups and volunteers
- Secure child check-in, which keeps children safe
- Streamlined bookkeeping, including offline and online giving,
fully-integrated payment processing and check scanning that easily
posts to Blackbaud Financial Management
- Simplified workflows, such as intuitive drag-and-drop email
designer for non-HTML experts and event management handled online
and in sync with the church calendar
- Robust reporting and analytics to drive communications strategy
and ensure that churches reach their members in the most effective,
personalized way
- Comprehensive solution, which allows for vendor
consolidation
"We love how intuitive and easy Blackbaud Church Management is
to use," said Josh Taylor, youth
director, Calvary Baptist Church in Lansdale, PA. "Our team doesn't have to spend
time troubleshooting or trying to figure out what to do. We love
the drag and drop, simple design of the email builder, and the
confidence of knowing that the children in our children's ministry
are safe and accounted for with check‑in. Blackbaud Church
Management is already saving us time to focus more on our
ministries, and we look forward to what's to come with our
partnership with Blackbaud."
As their needs scale and change, churches are leveraging other
Blackbaud capabilities from the Cloud Solution for Faith
Communities—all through one integrated experience, which is powered
by Blackbaud SKY®, Blackbaud's platform for social good
cloud innovation. In fact, nearly one of every three Blackbaud
Church Management customers currently leverage at least one other
Blackbaud solution to maximize their technology portfolio.
"Since introducing Blackbaud Church Management, we've been on
the ground with churches to optimize our already robust technology
platform specifically for their needs," said Kevin McDearis, Blackbaud's chief products
officer. "Following the same rapid innovation process that has made
us the leading software company powering tens of thousands of
social good organizations around the world, we have moved from
discovery to learning from our early adopters and are now making
our solution available broadly to the market and launching new
capabilities, such as our congregant app,
MobileMission™, to best serve these
customers."
MobileMission, which is being announced today at bbcon, is a new
mobile app for Blackbaud Church Management customers, which enables
church congregations to easily and securely send tithes and
offerings from their phones – anytime, anywhere. This is just one
example of how Blackbaud is optimizing and enhancing its already
groundbreaking solution to continue to create one seamless
integrated experience for churches of all sizes and
denominations.
For additional information about Blackbaud's Cloud Solution for
Faith Communities, visit
Blackbaud.com/who-we-serve/faith-communities.
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 and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit
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