Webinars

In an increasingly digital education landscape, protecting sensitive student and school data is more important than ever. Schools are tasked with safeguarding everything from health records to academic performance, and partnering with the right edtech vendor can make all the difference. But with so many options, how do you make sure the vendor you’re evaluating prioritizes security?

Join Aaron Hammond, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of August Schools, and Rob Lewis, Director of Blackbaud’s Information Security Office, for this educational webinar on security best practices and essentials. Aaron will share thoughts on what to look for and ask from vendors and Rob will give an overview of Blackbaud’s Information Security Program and recent enhancements.

Join us for a live tour of CSRconnect, an employee engagement solution built to foster a company culture of giving back through a wide range of features that goes beyond the basics of traditional giving and volunteering programs.

In this webinar you’ll learn:

How to leverage events and projects within your volunteer program so that they maximize employee participation and impact

Ways that CSRconnect can help support board memberships to enhance leadership skills and community involvement of employees

What data collection resources are available to track and measure the effectiveness of your volunteer initiatives

Register now to secure your seat!

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.

To build trust with donors and constituents, you need to show how their support impacted your mission, but this can be difficult without tools to effectively track how each dollar was spent.

Join us for a live tour of the accounting solution built to simplify the way you manage restricted funds. You’ll see Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®️ in action and learn how it can help your organization:

• Easily verify to donors and constituents that funds were used for their intended purposes
• Share timely information across your organization and reduce ad hoc reporting requests
• Integrate development and finance to reduce duplicative data entry and end of month reconciliation time

To build trust with donors and constituents, you need to show how their support impacted your mission, but this can be difficult without tools to effectively track how each dollar was spent.

Join us for a live tour of the accounting solution built to simplify the way you manage restricted funds. You’ll see Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®️ in action and learn how it can help your organization:

• Easily verify to donors and constituents that funds were used for their intended purposes
• Share timely information across your organization and reduce ad hoc reporting requests
• Integrate development and finance to reduce duplicative data entry and end of month reconciliation time

At Blackbaud, we understand that fostering a strong partnership between families and schools is crucial for student success. Our innovative platform starts with an industry-leading SIS/LMS in one system that empowers schools to streamline communication, facilitate collaboration, and engage families and caregivers in their children’s education.

So…let’s take a look at Blackbaud Learning Management System™️ and Blackbaud Student Information System™️.

Join Jacqueline Koca and Michael Morrissette, product managers for Blackbaud Student Information System™️ and Blackbaud Learning Management System™️, respectively, to see the solutions live and learn about some of our more recent feature releases and what their teams are working on for the future.

Topics include:

• Attendance Hub
• Parent Initiated Attendance
• Learning Center
• At Risk Students
• Question Generator

Through user-friendly interfaces, comprehensive data analysis, and personalized insights, our K–12 school software revolutionizes how families interact with schools, ensuring a seamless and enriching educational journey for every student.

People across the US give their time and money to the topics that matter most to them. Everyday givers and volunteers participate because they want to make their communities better. Generosity is part of who we are, but the shape it takes continues to change as fewer people are giving to and volunteering with nonprofits. There has been a steady decline in the share of households giving to nonprofits — dropping from 66.2% in 2000 to 49.6% in 2018 and a parallel decline in the rate of volunteering — from 27% in 2002 to 23% in 2021.

In the face of these changes, the Generosity Commission was convened in 2021. Their mission is to better understand giving and volunteering today – and protect and promote the future of generosity. The Commission listened to and learned from scholars, practitioners, and everyday donors. Their work has led to a comprehensive report which contains 9 recommendations ranging from increasing the availability of data on giving and volunteering to taking youth seriously as givers and volunteers. Join several of the Commissions elite Co-chairs as they share their findings and recommendations and discuss how to make a change.

Revolutionize your efforts with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, the world’s most popular and powerful fundraising system.

Purpose-built for the fundraising and engagement needs of social impact organizations, Raiser’s Edge NXT is proven to help raise and retain more revenue to reach and exceed mission goals.

Join us for a tour to learn how Raiser’s Edge NXT powers you to:

• 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

Come to one of the interactive sessions in this webinar series to see what Raiser’s Edge NXT could bring to your organization.

You asked, and we’re delivering! Join us for a 60-minute live Q&A with our CFO Series host Andrew Horrow, where he’ll apply his expertise on the most impactful practices in nonprofit finance to your situations. This session gives you the rare opportunity to receive complimentary recommendations and hear what your peers aim to accomplish. Whether it’s how to use technology to help in your day-to-day work, impacts of the current administration, or tips to help get through your year-end close, bring your questions for this opportunity to have them answered!

Important: You must register and submit your questions in advance for them to be answered live. Please see details below for guidance on questions.

Question Guidance:

• Try to frame your questions as general best practice—Andrew cannot provide formal accounting or business advice outside of a professional relationship.
• Topic ideas and examples:
  • How nonprofits have been impacted by the current administration
  • Tips and tricks to get through an annual audit
  • How do I speed up my board reporting?
  • How can I prepare for a 6/30 or mid-year budget reforecast?
  • My team takes forever to get credit card expenses coded, what can we do?
• We will post the questions on-screen, so keep the text of your question anonymous and professional.
• Please submit as a comment as part of your registration or email to fintechmarketingteam@blackbaud.com so that we can reach out to you for clarification if needed.
• Depending on the question, Andrew may follow-up for a more 1:1 discussion

During this session, we will describe Regions Hospital Foundation’s utilization of various Blackbaud analytics solutions and ResearchPoint™, along with how each data set flows in order to realize fundraising ROI.

Whether you have the Grateful Patient Solution, ProspectPoint® predictive modeling, Affluence Insight™ predictive analytics and/or a ResearchPoint software subscription, we will go over how your organization can develop a process for managing all the data outside of and within Raiser’s Edge® and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®.

We’ll discuss specific workflows the foundation has developed, and cover the data you can measure to calculate ROI as well as how to tweak the process over time as opportunities and challenges arise.

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.

Changes are happening quickly and reverberating throughout philanthropy. While grantmakers may not be able to be anticipate every need in a changing landscape, funders do have an obligation to their mission, especially in times of uncertainty.

Join us for a timely webinar, designed specifically for leaders in grantmaking organizations, to explore the critical role of funders during periods of significant policy change. This panel discussion will highlight the current state of the changes and provide strategic guidance on how to navigate these shifts effectively.

Featuring Kristina Wertz, Vice President of External Affairs at GEO, and Daniel Alberttis, Social Impact Strategist and Managing Director for Advisory Services at Quantum Impact, the webinar will delve into the urgent need for grantmakers to stay rooted in their communities while moving swiftly to address the emerging challenges affecting the philanthropic sector.

Don’t miss this chance to equip yourself with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate policy shifts and drive meaningful change. Register now to secure your spot!