May 2008 - Posts
Charleston, S.C. – May 29, 2008 – Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, announced today that it is acquiring Kintera, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA), a pioneer and leading provider of a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to the nonprofit and government sectors. Under the terms of the agreement, Blackbaud will pay an all-cash purchase price of approximately $46.0 million. Blackbaud expects to finance the deal with cash and borrowings from its credit facility.
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Charleston, S.C. (May 27, 2008) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) recently held the Blackbaud Interactive Internet Symposium in New York City with a focus on social networking, Web 2.0, email best practices, and building grassroots support online.
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Indianapolis, IN. (May 14, 2008) – eTapestry announced today that it will now be offering its Application Programming Interface (API) module free of charge. The eTapestry API provides nonprofit organizations and third-party developers the necessary tools to facilitate an exchange of data between the eTapestry database and other applications.
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Employee donor engagement is just as important as volunteer donor engagement because employees are often your organization’s best ambassadors — and their enthusiastic support helps foster the support of prospects and donors. From a healthcare perspective, grateful patients are a built-in audience that every healthcare organization ought to tap.
In two new white papers, Stephen Mally, a prinicipal consultant with Blackbaud Direct Marketing explores how nonprofits can approach two often overlooked prospect pools, employees and grateful patients. With more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Mally has worked with a variety of helathcare and disability-related nonprofit organizations, including the Alzheimer's Association, Joslin Diabetes Center, Chicago House, AIDS Action Committee, Lahey Clinic, and the Association of Retarded Citizens, in annual giving, major gifts, corporate and foundation relations, operations, and management roles.
Read his newest white papers here:
Ask Your Employees for Money? You Bet!
Ask Your Patients for Money? You Bet!
View additional whitepapers at http://www.blackbaud.com/resources/resources.aspx.
Charleston, S.C. (May 1, 2008) – Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), announced today that its OnDemand hosting services group has achieved significant milestones since its introduction in late 2004. In total, Blackbaud OnDemand hosts more than 1100 unique client applications of the company’s nine software solutions with more than 500 organizations hosting The Raiser’s Edge®. Additionally, an increasing number of organizations throughout the nonprofit sector selecting The Financial Edge™ and Blackbaud® NetCommunity™ are turning to Blackbaud OnDemand’s services.
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