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Blackbaud in the News: Extreme Fundraising

Melanie Mathos — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:37:00 GMT

As featured on Forbes.com
by Steven Bertoni

Endurance sports, personal blogs and personal (often disease related) charities have merged into a new form of extreme fundraising. Both charities and for-profit software companies such as Blackbaud and Active Network are capitalizing on the trend, offering ready-made personal fundraising sites with blogs, payment capability and more. Blackbaud estimates online fundraising has hauled in $3 billion in donations worldwide over the past seven years, with the pace accelerating over the past year.

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Press Release: Blackbaud Honored by Forbes and Software Magazines

Melanie Mathos — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:11:00 GMT

Charleston, S.C. (Oct. 27, 2008) – Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) today announced that the company has been named to Forbes Magazine’s 200 Best Small Companies in America list and Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers.

“We are pleased to be recognized by both Forbes Magazine and Software Magazine,” said Marc Chardon, Blackbaud’s chief executive officer. “In addition to our strong commitment to R&D, we are dedicated to delivering on our long-range strategic growth goals and remaining a strong and viable partner to the nonprofit sector.”

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Blackbaud in the News: America's 200 Best Small Companies

Melanie Mathos — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:16:00 GMT

Blackbaud is ranked #73 in Forbes' recently released special report on America's 200 Best Small Companies.

From the article:

Forbes.com
Kurt Badenhausen and Christina Settimi 10.08.08, 6:00 PM ET

Conventional wisdom would have investors flee small-cap stocks when the economy takes a tumble. Big companies are safer bets, the thinking goes.

Maybe not right now. With meltdowns at AIG (nyse: AIG - news - people ), Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) and Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ), the S&P 500 dropped 28% over the past 12 months while gross domestic product growth slowed to a crawl. The Russell 2000, made up of smaller fish, is down 18% over the same period.

With that in mind, we identified the strongest small public outfits in a very tough time for our list of the 200 Best Small Companies in America. To qualify, companies must have sales between $5 million and $750 million and a stock price of $5 as of Sept. 29. The ranking is based on return on equity, sales growth and profit growth over the past 12 months and also over five years. We also compare a company's stock performance with that of its industry peers.

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View the ranking details here.