With Recent Enhancements for Blackbaud
Raiser's Edge NXT® and Blackbaud Grantmaking™, Organisations Can
Raise More Funds and Drive More Impact
LONDON, July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ:
BLKB), the leading provider of software for powering social impact,
is helping U.K. customers maximise their impact with technology
innovations that enable charities and universities to raise more
funds and streamline their operations.
Blackbaud's recently announced enhancements for its flagship
fundraising product Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® illustrate the
cutting-edge technology available to help fundraisers engage
donors, save time, and deliver remarkable outcomes for their
organisations. New features that will be available to all users at
no extra cost, include:
- Powerful new fundraising AI
- A streamlined Raiser's Edge NXT user experience
- Personalised productivity dashboards
- Top-performing donation forms
In addition, new capabilities are being rolled out for Blackbaud
Grantmaking™, including a new applicant-centric portal. This portal
allows grant applicants to view and edit applications across
funders that use Blackbaud Grantmaking. The submission process has
been streamlined with features that enhance communication, enabling
both grantmakers and applicants to save time. In addition, new AI
features allow users to translate application forms to over 25
languages, including French, Spanish, Welsh and more, which will
help reduce barriers to funding and increase accessibility.
Enabling Impact
Charities and organisations across the
U.K. and around the world are leveraging Blackbaud software to
increase their impact and achieve their missions.
Martlets provides round-the-clock hospice care and essential
services to people who are terminally ill in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, and surrounding areas. Donations
that used to require five to six processing steps with the
hospice's previous technology now can be processed in batches with
a single click with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT for fundraising and
Blackbaud Merchant Services for payment processing. "I love
Raiser's Edge NXT and the way it has transformed our workings,"
said Claire Docteur, Donations
Processing and Data Officer.
Oxford Brookes University, set in a
historic student city, is one of the UK's leading modern
universities and is amongst the world's top universities in 21
subject areas. To fully engage the university's community of
graduates across the world, their alumni relations team realised
they needed to streamline how they capture, store, and apply alumni
information by modernising their database and reimagining their
processes. The university adapted their use of Raiser's Edge NXT to
leverage the system's purpose-built modern capabilities. "We've
really streamlined our processes and realised a lot of information
we were capturing wasn't serving us or our objectives," said
Anne Cossutta, Senior Alumni
Manager. "Now, we have data that's easily accessible that we
actually need."
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a government-supported
charity that administers grants worth tens of millions of pounds
for film production, distribution, education, audience development,
and marketing intelligence and research. In 2023-24, BFI
distributed £43 million in grants to support film and moving image
activity across the UK. "We couldn't deliver our grants program
without Blackbaud Grantmaking working as well as it does," said
Paul Richardson, Head of Counter
Fraud, Scrutiny and Risk for BFI. "It is absolutely a key,
essential part of our grantmaking."
Royal Navy & Royal Marines
Charity (RNRMC) pursues a multi-faceted mission to care for
older age veterans, improve relationships within naval families,
assist those in time of need, help sailors and marines transition
into civilian life, and improve morale of those serving and
deployed. By switching their CRM database to Blackbaud Raiser's
Edge NXT and creatively collaborating with Blackbaud specialists,
RNRMC is advancing fundraising growth needed to achieve "a world in
which UK sailors, marines, and their families are valued and
supported, for life." Now, four years later, they are bolstering
their capacity to support the UK's naval community through an even
deeper partnership with Blackbaud's teams for customer success,
professional services, and training.
Other organisations that have recently chosen Blackbaud
solutions include:
- BeyondAutism
- Smart Works Charity
- The Japan Society
- The Myalgic Encephalopathy Association
- The Royal NAAFI
CIOF Annual Convention
This week, Blackbaud will be a
sponsor of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIOF)'s annual
convention, taking place in London
July 3-4, 2024. At the fundraising
convention, Blackbaud will lead a workshop entitled "Maximising
Your Fundraising with Technology: Why Creating a Failure-Friendly
Culture is Key to Innovation" and will also be sharing a new eBook,
"The Importance of Charity Fundraising Technology."
"We are excited to interface with customers and those interested
in learning more about Blackbaud solutions at the CIOF convention
this week," said Dan Keyworth, Vice
President and Managing Director, Customer Success, Blackbaud. "With
our recent advancements to Raiser's Edge NXT, Blackbaud
Grantmaking, and other technological innovations, charities and
universities across the U.K. and around the world can implement the
best solutions to meet their goals. As a leading software provider,
we're committed to helping these organisations improve their
fundraising and engagement, and increase efficiency, so that they
can remain focused on their mission."
To learn more about Blackbaud at the CIOF convention, stop by
stand 9 in the expo hall, or attend Blackbaud's workshop on
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at
10:45 AM BST.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the
leading software provider exclusively dedicated to powering social
impact. Serving the nonprofit and education sectors, companies
committed to social responsibility and individual change makers,
Blackbaud's essential software is built to accelerate impact in
fundraising, nonprofit financial management, digital giving,
grantmaking, corporate social responsibility and education
management. With millions of users and over $100 billion raised, granted or managed through
Blackbaud platforms every year, Blackbaud's solutions are
unleashing the potential of the people and organisations who change
the world. Blackbaud has been named to Newsweek's list of America's
Most Responsible Companies, Quartz's list of Best Companies for
Remote Workers, and Forbes' list of America's Best Employers. A
remote-first company, Blackbaud has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa
Rica and the United
Kingdom, supporting users in 100+ countries. Learn more at
www.blackbaud.co.uk or follow us on X/Twitter, LinkedIn,
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contained in this news release are forward-looking statements that
involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including statements
regarding expected benefits of products and product features.
Although Blackbaud attempts to be accurate in making these
forward-looking statements, it is possible that future
circumstances might differ from the assumptions on which such
statements are based. In addition, other important factors that
could cause results to differ materially include the following:
general economic risks; uncertainty regarding increased business
and renewals from existing customers; continued success in sales
growth; management of integration of acquired companies and other
risks associated with acquisitions; risks associated with
successful implementation of multiple integrated software products;
the ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks associated
with management of growth; lengthy sales and implementation cycles,
particularly in larger organization; technological changes that
make our products and services less competitive; and the other risk
factors set forth from time to time in the SEC filings for
Blackbaud, copies of which are available free of charge at the
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