October 2010 - Posts
Charleston, S.C. (October 28, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) today announced the availability of featured session recordings from the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits, which was recently held in Washington, D.C.
The largest event in the world focused on nonprofit technology, Blackbaud’s Conference featured keynote sessions with Allison Fine and Beth Kanter, authors of best-selling book The Networked Nonprofit, and Philippe Cousteau, conservationist and co-founder of EarthEcho International, along with more than 170 educational sessions.
“This year’s Conference brought the brightest minds in nonprofit technology together from around the world to discuss key issues facing nonprofits today and explore solutions through technology,” said Mary Beth Natarajan, Blackbaud’s director of corporate communications. “The theme of the Conference ‘Better Together’ was brought to life through new collaborations with customers, partners, and Blackbaud staff.”
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CPA Technology Advisor's fifth annual Readers' Choice Awards features more than 30 categories of professional applications, hardware, services and other technologies, and provides those in related professions a way to express appreciation for the systems that help them in their practice. Once again, Blackbaud is featured in the Not-For-Profit Accounting category.
Take the survey and cast your vote for Blackbaud. The deadline is Monday, November 1, 2010 at 6p.m. ET. While only one vote can be cast per computer, anyone can vote.
Results will be released in the December 2010 issue and on the website.
Charleston, S.C. (Oct. 20, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), announced today that Blackbaud Merchant Services™ is now available to all customers, offering nonprofits a secure, affordable, and integrated payment and donation processing solution.
“With over $300 billion donated to nonprofits annually, the nonprofit sector requires an easy and secure means to collect and process electronic payments across multiple fundraising activities,” said Steve Klein, Blackbaud’s head of payment services. “Blackbaud Merchant Services is a fully integrated PCI-compliant environment that helps mitigate risks associated with storing credit cards which is critical to protection of nonprofits’ and their donor data.”
Family Legacy Missions International needed a streamlined and secure approach to processing donations. With Blackbaud Merchant Services™, the organization was able to achieve a consolidated payment solution across all their donation processing requirements.
“It was easy to get up and running—we were securely processing credit cards within 24 hours,” said Sommer Clayman, Family Legacy Missions International’s director of finance and accounting. “Because we are working with one processer that integrates with our other solutions, The Financial Edge, The Raiser’s Edge, and Blackbaud NetCommunity, we have been able to streamline our processes and meet our online giving goals.”
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Charleston, S.C. (Oct. 19, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), announced that its flagship fundraising solution, The Raiser’s Edge®, has been honored with its third User Satisfaction Award in the 2010 Donor and Member Management Solution Software Survey conducted by Campbell Rinker. During June and July, more than 2,800 users of nonprofit software and online solutions for donor and member management, mass communications, and fundraising were surveyed online. The survey gathers information on user satisfaction, pricing preferences, purchasing habits, and organizational scope.
“Our purpose is to help nonprofits fulfill their passion and mission through technology,” said Lou Attanasi, Blackbaud’s senior vice president of products. “We are very proud that our customers have recognized our efforts to provide the technology they need to meet their fundraising goals.”
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Charleston, S.C. (October 15, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) today announced the release of a report focused on fundraising trends based on monthly findings from The Blackbaud Index and featuring commentary from Lynn Edmonds, president of LW Robbins. Additionally, Blackbaud announced the release of a new specialty index focused on the human services sector.
“With the exception of the months immediately following the Haiti earthquake, the Index shows that human services organizations have struggled to maintain positive year-over-year growth in 2010,” said Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions. “Online fundraising has been the exception to this trend and has continued to have year-over-year growth for the past 12 consecutive months. As nonprofits enter the final months of the year, it will be important to watch for signs of recovery and stability. The vast majority of online fundraising takes place during the final three months of the year, and year-over-year growth during this timeframe will be very important to organizations.”
The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving launched in June 2010 and was followed by the release of The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving in July. These indices are updated on the 15th of each month and are based on a three-month moving average of year-over-year percent changes in revenue. They represent the most comprehensive and timely sources of charitable giving available. (Read more about the methodology at www.blackbaud.com/blackbaudindex.)
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Charleston, S.C. (October 6, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of software and services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has been named one of the top 25 Best Places to Work in South Carolina.
“We are extremely honored that Blackbaud was named to the 2010 Best Places to Work list,” said John Mistretta, Blackbaud’s senior vice president of human resources. “This award is a testament to the quality of our employees and their sense of pride and dedication in working with Blackbaud’s nonprofit customers. It is our customers that benefit from working with a team that truly enjoys what they do, and that is why we have such a strong focus on our employees – our people make us great!”
For nearly 30 years, Blackbaud has been focused on providing software and services that help nonprofits raise money, manage their finances, improve operational effectiveness, and leverage the power of the Internet. Blackbaud employs 1100 people at its global headquarters in Charleston and another 900 people in its satellite offices throughout the United States — including Cambridge, Indianapolis and San Diego — as well as around the world in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Blackbaud provides employees tremendous opportunity for personal and professional growth, including a philanthropic corporate culture that encourages volunteerism.
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Charleston, S.C. (October 4, 2010) – Blackbaud, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, announced today that it has acquired California-based NOZA, Inc.™, an innovator in the emerging semantic search industry and creator of the world’s largest searchable database of philanthropic data.
A long-time partner of Blackbaud’s, NOZA provides philanthropy data that is used by nonprofits to identify prospects for charitable giving. NOZA’s database is comprised of detailed charitable donation information that has been collected from publicly-available Internet locations. It contains nearly 50 million donation records to U.S. nonprofits as well as more than 2 million Canadian giving records. Products offered by NOZA include constituent screenings, high-dollar donor mailing lists, foundation 990-PF searchable grants database, and NOZAsearch.com, the award-winning annual subscription web service for nonprofits.
“Blackbaud’s acquisition of NOZA will enable us to provide enhanced data to nonprofits through our existing best-of-breed prospect research solutions, helping them best target prospective donors while increasing fundraising efficiency,” said Chris South, vice president of Blackbaud’s Target Analytics. “We know that past giving is one of the most significant predictors of future giving, and NOZA provides the most comprehensive data available. The NOZA database and search technology will augment Target Analytics’ ability to provide accurate and actionable data to nonprofits.
“We share similar goals with NOZA in regard to our core mission, fundraising research philosophy, customer dedication, and focus on continuous enhancement of our offerings. We look forward to providing NOZA’s existing customers with access to an expanded portfolio of prospect research solutions and providing Blackbaud customers enhanced access to NOZA data services. We will continue production, research and development to expand the breadth of NOZA coverage of philanthropic activity, as well as explore synergies with the existing broad set of Target Analytics’ offerings.”
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