Webinars

Join us for an enlightening webinar on intentional grateful patient prospecting, led by Danielle Lavon, Founder of Development Data Discovery. Discover how to harness the power of data to identify and engage high-potential prospects, enhancing your grateful patient programs’ effectiveness.

Key Takeaways:

• Identifying High-Potential Prospects: Learn to define and categorize prospects based on capacity, inclination, and affinity.
• Leveraging Data Insights: Understand how to use demographic, visit, and patient modeling data to build and manage your prospect pipeline.
• Effective Data Management: Gain best practices for maintaining clean and actionable data to support your philanthropy efforts.

Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your grateful patient philanthropy initiatives with actionable insights and expert guidance. Register now to secure your spot!

Join us for an insightful webinar where we will explore how YourCause products and partnerships can significantly enhance your disaster relief programs. Hosted in partnership with the Medtronic Foundation, we will share best practices on leveraging technology to facilitate employee engagement programs in times of crisis and disaster.

In this session, we will cover how YourCause CSRconnect and GrantsConnect can be used to support employees and communities after an event occurs through features like Engagement Elements, Match Programs, Community Partnerships, and grant applications. Hear practical advice from the Medtronic Foundation’s Team on how they have redesigned their strategy and operating mechanisms in light of the increasing pace and rate of crisis events.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to effectively enhance your disaster relief efforts and make a lasting impact on your community.

As a mission driven organization, it’s critical to have a donation form that delivers results. Blackbaud’s Optimized Donation forms are proven to boost your fundraising while minimizing costs with $0 transaction fee options.

These intelligent forms are designed to maximize your fundraising efforts, improve the donor experience, streamline administrative tasks, and reduce processing costs. Join this virtual workshop to learn how to set up your own optimized forms.

Designed to prioritize the donor’s experience, Blackbaud’s optimized donation forms are designed to raise more through:

• Intelligent forms that automatically adjust to increase gift amounts based on donor data analysis
• Mobile accessibility and seamless integration on your website without additional webpages
• Streamlined checkout: donors pay directly within the form
• Consistent branding with customizable images and your own mission statement

*We have a few pre-requisites to make sure you are set up for success prior to joining this workshop:

1. This webinar is for existing Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® Customers
2. Make sure you have access to Online Giving
3. Make sure you do not have anything in the “needs attention” section. If so, click here for more information

Each year, donorCentrics® Collaborative Benchmarking compiles fundraising data from a broad sample of large national nonprofits to evaluate overall trends in recurring giving behavior.

Join Blackbaud Senior Principal Consultant and recurring giving expert Paige Grainger to learn key insights from the 2025 donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit, which brings together analysis of 19 million donors and over $3.4 billion from 38 organizations of varying sizes and missions.

Takeaways will include insights into key sustainer metrics and emerging trends from organizations focused on growing their recurring giving populations and how recurring donors have provided stable revenue during fluctuations in giving from single gift donors.

Discussion points include:

• Are single and recurring donor populations shifting? How are recurring donors increasing as a share of the donor base?
• How does retention of recurring gift donors compare to single gifts?
• What sources are used to acquire donors directly to recurring giving?
• Are organizations having success in converting single gift donors to recurring gift donors?
• What’s new trends are emerging in recurring giving?

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.

We are excited to continue our webinar series featuring tips and tricks on how to get the most out of Blackbaud Luminate Online® and Blackbaud TeamRaiser®.

Deep dive into all things Luminate Online related to supporting your sustainer giving program—or creating one from scratch—including how to design and build a sustainers email campaign for acquisition and/or retention, take advantage of built-in Luminate Online components such as the Gift Service Center, report on your sustaining gifts performance, and more.

In this webinar we will cover:

• Developing year-round strategies for concept and content creation for your online sustainer giving program
• Exploring user experience principles to encourage donors to make sustaining gifts directly from your primary donation form
• Understanding your donor segments and developing email campaigns to move your new and/or repeat one-time donors toward a sustaining gift commitment
• Tailoring Luminate Online’s sustaining donor portal—the Gift Service Center—specifically for your organization
• Exploring engagement-focused communications for sustaining donors once they have made that generous commitment
• Discussing considerations for a multi-channel approach to sustainer giving, such as with your direct mail program, social media outreach, and more

In this informative webinar, we will explore the expanding landscape of non-traditional estate giving options that donors are increasingly seeking.

Learn practical strategies for engaging with donors interested in Donor Advised Funds (DAFs), beneficiary designations, transfers upon death, and qualified charitable distributions from IRAs.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the fundamentals of DAFs and how they’re transforming philanthropic planning
• Learn how to effectively discuss beneficiary designations and transfers upon death with prospects
• Explore Blackbaud Analytics IRA/QCD giving model and learn about the tax advantages for donors over 70.5
• Discover practical and actionable frameworks for incorporating non-traditional gift options into your existing development strategy

Join us for a dynamic webinar combining advanced TeamRaiser tips with donor retention strategies to maximize your peer-to-peer fundraising success. Discover how to enhance participant engagement with powerful TeamRaiser features like self-donation prompts and conditional messaging. Then, learn how to map custom donor journeys and build lasting relationships with fundraisers and donors alike.

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.

Have a unique use case that you’re unsure whether Raiser’s Edge NXT can handle? Share your questions ahead of time and our presenters will be sure to cover it during the session!

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.

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.

• The Donor Experience- Combining Technology and the Human Touch May 14, 2025Personalization meets efficiency in this must-attend webinar! Learn how to balance the human touch with cutting-edge technology to deliver what your donors value most. We’ll share the secrets to building high-touch programs and help you navigate roadblocks to create a donor experience that truly shines.

Join us for a live tour of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Blackbaud Grantmaking. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is a total cloud fund accounting solution designed to meet the unique needs of nonprofit entities and delivers the industry’s best tools to manage financial reporting, monitor program success, and ensure overall integrity for your organization. Blackbaud Grantmaking is a comprehensive grant management solution that can effectively manage your entire grant cycle—from accepting online applications to assessing and communicating outcomes—all in one purpose-built solution that’s intuitive, scalable, and secure.