Blackbaud Announces Membership in CECP: The CEO Force for Good

Blackbaud is pleased to announce it is now a member of CECP, a CEO-led coalition that believes a company’s social strategy — how it engages with key stakeholders including employees, communities, investors and customers —determines company success.

“As a company on the leading edge of developing innovative solutions for maximum impact in the social good space, Blackbaud is a powerful example of business levering its core strengths to be a ‘Force for Good,’” said Daryl Brewster, CEO, CECP. “CECP is proud to welcome Blackbaud to its coalition of CEOs committed to finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.”

Blackbaud’s core mission is to provide cutting-edge technology that enables social good organizations to have a greater impact and collaborates with leading companies like fellow CECP member Microsoft to accomplish this. In addition to now joining CECP, Blackbaud has demonstrated its commitment to building a better world through the company’s role as a Founding Partner of the #GivingTuesday movement and as a member of organizations such as the Giving Institute and Shared Value Initiative. At the World Economic Forum in 2017, Blackbaud collaborated with the Gates Foundation, Social Progress Imperative and UN Foundation to convene hundreds of leaders to accelerate cross-sector collaboration toward advancing social impact.

We also deeply believe in giving back through our own corporate social responsibility programs. In 2018, Blackbaud is once again participating in the Fortune/U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership, which matches emerging women leaders from all over the world with members of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Leaders for a four-week-long program. Blackbaud runs a robust employee volunteering program in which 86% of employees worldwide participate – far above the 31% corporate volunteer average. And we give back to our communities through programs such as Camp Blackbaud, which engages underserved youth in STEM education and our Community Matters grant program run by local employee committees, which engages our colleagues in each Blackbaud location to learn about the good work organizations in their communities are doing and teaches them what it means to be grantmakers.

“It’s incredibly important to me that Blackbaud’s business model includes both developing best-in-class technology solutions and services to advance the social economy and demonstrating its commitment to giving back as a company,” said Mike Gianoni, president & CEO of Blackbaud. “I am honored to join this coalition of fellow CEOs working to create a better world through business, and look forward to taking advantage of the strategic counsel and expertise that CECP can provide to push us even further.”