Webinars

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

The nonprofit sector has never been under more pressure. Capital campaign cycles and larger goals are driving rapid innovation, advancements in technology and increased risks are revolutionizing the way organizations operate, stakeholders are demanding more personalized, and value-added engagement to earn their support.

If leaders are not innovating, they risk losing a competitive edge. Nonprofit organizations must invest in a modern CRM to take advantage of innovations in the cloud, improved data management, and AI to best support their stakeholders and business objectives.

Join us for a round table webinar to explore critical technology trends that impact nonprofits in 2025. Hear from speakers, Dwight Dozier, CIO at The Georgia Tech Foundation, Guest Speaker Principal Analyst Kate Leggett from Forrester, and Andy Synder, SVP of RDO from Blackbaud as they explore:

• The importance of migrating your CRM to the public cloud
• How purpose-built CRMs for the nonprofit sector help you generate value quickly—and with more agility
• The importance of a robust, compliant and secure data strategy
• The real benefits of automation—and how to achieve them
• How AI can make your CRM operations more efficient—and your people more effective

Don’t miss this opportunity to take bold steps to uplevel your CRM to reap the rewards of better engagement—and revenue.

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.

Online donation forms are the heart of your digital fundraising efforts—making your forms quick, easy, and donor-friendly is essential to maximizing contributions. While forms will vary from organization to organization, it’s important to understand the key elements of an effective donation form. Tailoring your organization’s forms accordingly can streamline your giving process and supercharge your fundraising efforts!

This presentation from Double the Donation will walk through some of the components to consider when it comes to optimizing your donation form. From fine-tuning form fields, perfecting your donation amount array, or incorporating corporate matching gifts, a well-oiled donation form can maximize engagement and meaningfully connect your donors to your mission.

During this session, we’ll cover:

• Building a form that resonates with donors so they feel connected to your mission and inclined to give
• Key fields to optimize for a seamless, user-friendly experience
• Collecting meaningful information to drive revenue and engagement

Imagine transforming your finance processes and empowering your team to focus on strategic initiatives. What if you could increase efficiency and reduce risk with automated AP processes within a fund accounting system that maximizes your organization’s impact?

Join us for an insightful webinar on revolutionizing your AP workflows with embedded automation in Financial Edge NXT. Say goodbye to paper-based checks and manual approvals, and discover a faster, more cost-effective, and secure way to manage your invoices. Gain real-time visibility into your payables, streamline efficiency by minimizing manual errors, and enhance security to protect your financial data. Additionally, mitigate risks associated with fraud and compliance issues.

With Financial Edge NXT’s automated AP features, you can:

• Boost Efficiency: Automate accounts payable and reduce manual errors.
• Enhance Security: Protect your financial data and mitigate fraud risks.
• Streamline Processes: Digitize vendor payments and simplify bank reconciliation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your AP workflows and elevate your financial operations with Financial Edge NXT. Register now to secure your spot!

Also featuring Blackbaud Premier Partners, AvidXchange, and PairSoft.

Leading through influence is essential as it fosters trust, encourages buy-in, and inspires innovation, and has longer-term impact than relying solely on authority. This session is designed to empower social impact leaders with the skills to inspire and drive change within their organizations and communities through the power of influence. In this dynamic session, we will delve into practical strategies for building trust, fostering collaboration, and effectively communicating vision and values. Our panel of experienced customers will share their real-world experiences and insights on how they have successfully led through influence in their own organizations.

In this session, you will:

• Hear how our panel of sector leaders are fostering collaboration and teamwork, enabling them to drive collective action and inspire innovation by leveraging the power of influence
• Gain insights into effectively articulating vision and values to inspire and motivate others to achieve common goals through influential leadership

Explore the entire Skills UP 2025 series and register for all sessions

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.

Mission-driven professionals are the backbone of social impact, yet they often face burnout and resource constraints that make advancing their mission increasingly challenging. This webinar will explore how funders can go beyond financial support to foster grantee well-being as an essential for greater and more sustainable social impact. Participants will gain insights into the challenge of grantee burnout, explore philanthropic trends reshaping funder-grantee relationships, and learn actionable strategies to sustain both social impact and the people driving change.

You will learn how to:

• Understand the link between grantee well-being and long-term social impact
• Identify barriers to and opportunities for fostering grantee well-being
• Explore practical strategies for integrating well-being into grantmaking practices

If you’re in development, you have a passion for your organization’s mission. Sometimes in the hustle of daily operations, it’s easy to forget that behind every donation is a person who shares your vision for change.

This series is designed to help you focus on what truly matters—creating meaningful relationships that drive impact, one interaction at a time.

Join us each month to reconnect with what the human side of fundraising really means—and how the right technology empowers you to do that.

• Donor Retention- From First Gift to Lifelong Support March 20, 2025

  Are you experiencing high rates of donor churn? Turn it around by crafting meaningful donor journeys. We’ll cover how to avoid common retention pitfalls and how to use data to create personalized outreach that works. You’ll leave with practical tips and tools to help turn first-time donors into lifelong supporters.

We are thrilled to present the latest enhancements and releases for Blackbaud Donation Forms. Join us to review the performance of Blackbaud Donation Forms at the end of 2024, see demonstrations of recent releases, and get a sneak peek at upcoming developments. Our product experts will be available for a Q&A session, so bring your questions!

This session will cover several exciting new features:

• Goal Meter Improvements: Enhanced goal tracking capabilities
• Canadian Availability: Announcing the Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® Optimized Form for Canada
• Pledge Functionality: Introducing the long-awaited pledge feature
• A/B Tests: Ongoing improvements to donation form performance

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

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.