The Blackbaud Impact Awards celebrate the incredible achievements of customers across the globe. We’re excited to announce our 2024 finalists, who have demonstrated creative and strategic problem-solving and achieved audacious goals. Winners will be announced at bbcon 2024.

 

The Silo Buster Award

Silos never stood a chance at your org.

Recognizing organizations using Blackbaud technology to create fully connected teams that are more aligned than ever!

• Adventist Health – For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, Blackbaud Online Express™, Blackbaud Luminate Online®, Research Point™, Blackbaud Website Package, and Omatic, a Blackbaud partner, to bring 25 markets into a single donor database with single donor records, creating a standarized, system-wide approach to managing donor data, prospect research and philanthropy communication.

• My Scholarship Central – For their use of Blackbaud Award Management™ to simplify the application process and connect Missouri students with scholarship opportunities from more than 60 partner organizations who want to close the financial aid gap, promoting collaboration instead of competition amongst scholarship providers.

• UMB Financial Corporation – For their use of YourCause® GrantsConnect® to bring isolated community giving programs across eight states and multiple lines of business into a streamlined and centralized system, ultimately increasing the total number of grants, with the majority benefitting low- and moderate-income communities.

 

The Changemaker Award

You don’t just respond to change; you use tech to embrace it.

Recognizing organizations that have embraced new tech capabilities to overcome challenges and deliver transformative results.

• Save the Children US – For their use of Blackbaud CRM™, Blackbaud Luminate Online®, and APIs to create a new experience in their online Supporter Center to enable/allow donors to easily self-manage their recurring gifts, resulting in significant time savings for their Supporter Experience team and a decrease in at-risk supporter interactions.

• Turtle Creek Association – For their use of Blackbaud eTapestry® to significantly grow their membership base, increase engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve operational efficiency so their small team can continue to have an outsized impact on the restoration and sustainability of a treasured local natural corridor.

• Unison – For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to transform their approach to donor data management resulting in increased donor insights, streamlined operations, modernized supporter communications, and ultimately empowering Unison to more effectively serve the seniors in their community.

 

The Fueling Greatness Award

You’ve turned audacious goals into inspiring results.

Celebrating organizations that have leveraged Blackbaud technology to reach and surpass ambitious goals to truly amplify their impact.

• Jackson – For their use of YourCause® CSRConnect® to create a data-driven strategy to revitalize employee volunteerism and deepen relationships with nonprofit partners, resulting in surpassing their 2023 employee volunteerism goal by 18 percentage points and impacting more than 400 nonprofits in communities across the United States.

• Marlborough College – For their use of JustGiving®from Blackbaud®and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to launch an ambitious new bursary (funded places) fundraising campaign with a goal of raising £75m by 2033, and already achieving a record-breaking campaign launch giving day and raising nearly 40% of their total fundraising goal.

• Truth Initiative – For their use of EVERFI® from Blackbaud to introduce a new nationwide curriculum, now active in over 13,000 schools in the U.S., to educate America’s students about the health risks of e-cigarettes and combat the growing youth vaping crisis.

 

The Data Strategist Award

Data is your not-so-secret weapon.

Recognizing data-fluent organizations who have demonstrated how data-informed decisions have given them a greater edge, or improved their analytics, reporting, and communications.

• Combat Stress – For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to capture, analyze, and action on data that helped them create an award-winning stewardship program that has significantly grown pledge rates, new donor inquiries, average donation size, and lapsed donor re-engagement.

• University of Kansas Health System – For their use of Grateful Patient Solution and Research Point™ to create an innovative and efficient new way of identifying high-affinity and high-capacity patients with upcoming visits with their health system, allowing them to better steward both known donors and new patient prospects.

• University of Indianapolis – For their use of Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management™ to implement effective data-driven approaches to managing and supporting staff, identifying likely annual giving prospects, and engaging new alumni prospects, resulting in the most successful fundraising year in the history of the institution in FY 2024.

 

The Futurist Award

Thinking inside the box? No way! You’re a master of tech flexibility.

Recognizing organizations that can share their story of technological exploration and creativity within Blackbaud’s flexible ecosystem.

• Moffitt Cancer Center – For their use of SKY API and Microsoft Power Platform to route data from their Blackbaud solutions into a data warehouse to create powerful, interactive dashboards for frontline fundraisers, resulting in hours saved in efficiencies, an expanded view of data for stewarding donors and prospects, and ultimately helping to achieve Moffit’s best fundraising year ever.

• Opportunity International – For their use of Microsoft Power Platform and queue in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT to improve the timely flow of reporting so that fundraisers and organizational leadership have robust up-to-date information at their fingertips and can make swift and informed decisions to achieve their goals.

• University of Manitoba – For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT and SKY API to transform their most complex, time-consuming, and challenging set of business processes and workflows—gift processing.

 

The Outstanding Leadership Award

A leader who empowers teams and pushes boundaries.

Honoring executive-level leaders who empower their teams and drive organizational success.

• Cathy Sandoval, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation – For transformative leadership that has secured greater long-term stability for the organization and promoted an environment where all team members feel trusted and valued, no matter where they sit on the org chart.

• Juliet Douglas, CEO, Venture House – For her visionary leadership that has expanded the organization’s programming and impact, positioned it as a leader in innovative service delivery, and created a culture of inclusivity and innovation where team members feel empowered and supported.

• Katie M. Lewis, Executive Director, Burger King Foundation – For strategic leadership that has reinvigorated relationships with stakeholders, bolstered innovation, and increased the Foundation’s impact on the students and communities it serves.