Webinars

Tired of check runs, postage, and EFT emails? Introducing a new way to improve efficiency and mitigate risk with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant. By partnering with REPAY®️, a trusted payments technology platform, you can automate payments natively in Financial Edge NXT. Payment Assistant digitizes and automates how organizations pay vendors, reducing reliance on paper checks and eliminating the need to send sensitive financial information through the mail. During this webinar, you’ll learn how Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant can:

• Help you eliminate paper checks, reducing the risk of theft, fraud, and unauthorized alterations
• Provide robust encryption and authentication measures to safeguard payment data
• Process payments more quickly than traditional paper methods, improving cash flow and reducing time-consuming manual tasks and associated errors
• Give you real-time tracking and reporting for complete visibility into transactions
• Enable you to easily monitor payment status, access detailed reports, and gain valuable insights to optimize your AP workflow

Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant is included as part of your Financial Edge NXT subscription at no additional charge.

Fundraising is much like a board game—while there’s an element of luck, mastering strategy is essential for success. Join fundraising expert Stacy Rooney in this insightful session where you’ll learn to identify your program’s position on the game board and develop a winning strategy. Stacy will guide you through:

• Assessing Your Current Position
• Four Stages of Fundraising Process Maturity
• Crafting a Winning Strategy

Register today and learn how to play your best hand!

Join us for an insightful webinar as Julie Faulstich and Peter Baron delve into the essential strategies for effective leadership in today’s ever-changing educational environment. Based on their decades of experience working with private and independent schools, this session will cover key topics such as:

• Leaning into your authority: Authority used thoughtfully can promote security, stability, and trust
• Avoiding ambiguity: Whether with families or faculty, leaders need to communicate clearly and set precise expectations
• Putting the right systems in place: You need the right people, processes, and technology to move forward
• Mission-aligning strategy: Look beyond tradition to prioritize actions, set achievable goals, and make informed decisions

Julie, a former head of school and communications expert, and Peter, a strategist who has worked with hundreds of schools, will offer diverse perspectives, real-life examples, and actionable takeaways for school leaders. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and propel your school to success. Register now to secure your spot!

Start the new year by committing to maximizing your fundraising potential! Join us for an exciting webinar featuring healthcare fundraising experts Becky Kimball, Senior Principal Solution Architect, and Kelly Merrion, Principal Solutions Engineer, both from Blackbaud.

Discover how Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® can help your healthcare fundraising team work together to raise more, uniting executives, fundraisers, and development services team members for a cohesive strategy.

Key Takeaways:

• For Executives: Uncover how Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT empowers major gift initiatives through detailed reporting and fund analysis, ensuring the enduring success and growth of your healthcare organization
• For Fundraisers: Harness the potential of the work center, moves management, prospect insights, data intelligence, and segmentation to supercharge your fundraising strategies and boost philanthropic contributions through grateful patient programs
• For Development Services: Delve into the seamless integration of online giving components, optimized forms, donor cover, and the management of pledges, stocks, and planned giving to foster meaningful connections with employees, volunteers, and new potential donors

Join us to see why Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT stands out and how it can propel your healthcare fundraising team to new heights in 2025 and beyond!

Tired of check runs, postage, and EFT emails? Introducing a new way to improve efficiency and mitigate risk with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®️ Payment Assistant. By partnering with REPAY®️, a trusted payments technology platform, you can automate payments natively in Financial Edge NXT. Payment Assistant digitizes and automates how organizations pay vendors, reducing reliance on paper checks and eliminating the need to send sensitive financial information through the mail. During this webinar, you’ll learn how Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant can:

• Help you eliminate paper checks, reducing the risk of theft, fraud, and unauthorized alterations
• Provide robust encryption and authentication measures to safeguard payment data
• Process payments more quickly than traditional paper methods, improving cash flow and reducing time-consuming manual tasks and associated errors
• Give you real-time tracking and reporting for complete visibility into transactions
• Enable you to easily monitor payment status, access detailed reports, and gain valuable insights to optimize your AP workflow

Financial Edge NXT Payment Assistant is included as part of your Financial Edge NXT subscription at no additional charge.

Financial health is a key component of sustainability and could be argued to be the most important factor. Without financial health, nonprofit organizations will be greatly limited in their efforts to deliver on mission, procure funding, and be a sphere of influence. To obtain financial health, senior leadership (Board, finance committee, and senior management) must be well informed of the moving parts that make up financial health and how to monitor changing status and conditions. How is financial health best observed on the balance sheet? By keeping a close eye on operating reserves.

In this two-part series with Mike Gellman, CGMA and CPA, and Paul Preziotti, CPA, we will explore how to help senior leadership better understand the need for and how to monitor operating reserves. We will give special attention to the differences between the dual roles of operating reserves: to protect against short-term unexpected disruptions and provide long-term support for growth and expansion into new program and activity areas.

In Part I, we will cover the core concepts behind operating reserves, and we will go over the key elements of an effective operating reserve policy.

In Part II, we will cover how to improve Board understanding of operating reserves and how to engage the Board in building an operating reserve policy and committing to fund and plan for use of operating reserves by adding a spending policy component to the operating reserve policy. We will finish Part II by examining a number of case studies to assess if operating reserves were maintained and used in an appropriate manner.

Learning Objectives:

Part I: 

1. Learn why operating reserves are a key component of financial health for nonprofit organizations.
2. Explore options and strategies related to the core purposes for having a formal operating reserve policy.
3. Discuss the component parts of an operating reserve policy and the benefits of adding a spending policy for possible future use of operating reserves.

CPE Information 

• Format: Group Internet-Based Program
• Program Sponsor: Blackbaud
• Knowledge Level: Overview
• Cost: Free
• Credit Provided: One (1) per Session
• Prerequisites: None
• Field of Study: Information Technology
• Blackbaud is a registered sponsor of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors—a program offered by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). This registry recognizes that our continuing professional education for accountants meets nationally recognized standards.

In this webinar for current Financial Edge®️ customers, you’ll learn about the ways your organization will become more efficient, accountable, and data-driven when you migrate to Financial Edge NXT. Join us to see how a migration can help you:

• Save time and reduce errors by eliminating manual data entry
• Simplify reporting to show your data the way you want, drill down into data, and easily share data with customizable dashboards
• Connect your financial team from any location, and securely share reports with other non-financial users on a view-only basis
• Easily customize and scale your solution with access to our vast partner network

Can’t make it live? No worries, we’ll send you a recording for on-demand viewing within 24 hours!

Fundraising and finance are the two critical functions that keep your organization running but oftentimes these teams can feel disconnected. But what if your technology enabled you to get these two teams on the same page, empowered them with the right data, and offered visibility into how money flows through the organization from funding to disbursement?

Join us for a live tour of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT and Financial Edge NXT, the integrated solution that will give your team the foundational tools to do their jobs efficiently and keep your funders informed and engaged.

Whether you work in fundraising, finance, or leadership, you’ll see how technology can help these two teams work together to drive more impact for your organization.

Join us for a tour of the leading nonprofit CRM software built specifically for fundraisers to power your organization. Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is proven to increase the number of donors, number of gifts, and total dollars raised.

Get an exclusive look at the tech in action to see how you can:

• Raise more revenue using a proven system with fundraising expertise built in
• Centralize your work, with everything fundraisers need in one place
• Grow with confidence, with the system depth and flexibility to help you achieve your most ambitious goals

The world is evolving, and Blackbaud Grantmaking™️ is here to support this transformation. Experience the flexibility of Blackbaud Grantmaking™️ on any browser and device, anytime and anywhere. It enhances your efficiency and communication, providing transparency in your giving process and guidance for you and your stakeholders. This boosts collaboration and ensures data is at your fingertips for every decision. Join our live tour to see Blackbaud Grantmaking™️ in action.

Can’t attend live? Watch this recording on-demand.

Join us as we explore top considerations and steps for purchasing CSR software. This session will guide you through essential questions to ask vendors, provide an overview of what to expect from implementation and customer success, and highlight YourCause®’s solutions for employee giving, volunteering, grantmaking, and impact reporting.

In this webinar, you’ll discover:

• Evaluation Questions and Resources: Learn how to select a vendor that not only meets your current needs but also supports your future goals.
• Implementation and Customer Success Expectations: Understand what to expect from your vendor beyond just a platform—your programs deserve a partner dedicated to supporting your impact.
• YourCause® Solutions Showcase: Get an exclusive look at how YourCause® powers employee engagement, corporate grantmaking, and impact reporting.

Portfolio review can be a stressful time for both prospect researchers and frontline fundraisers. While their goals intertwine, the methods and information required to meet these goals aren’t always in line.

In this session, we will:

• Examine how researchers and fundraisers can work together for a shared outcome
• Identify ways portfolio reviews can be more productive and less confrontational
• Learn how Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT and ResearchPoint can assist with prospect management from the perspective of researchers and fundraisers