Blackbaud Will Transform the Future of Fundraising with Pioneering Enhancements to Raiser’s Edge NXT From Investing.com

End-to-end updates to the market-leading fundraising software include new fundraising AI tools and A Reinvented User experience

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Blackbaud (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:), a leading provider of software for driving social impact, today announced a major wave of brand-new innovations and powerful enhancements coming to its industry-leading fundraising software, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT ^®.

“Fundraisers rely on Raiser’s Edge NXT to raise money, save time and achieve amazing results for their organizations,” he said Mike Gianoni, president and CEO of Blackbaud. “We are excited to deliver cutting-edge innovations over the next year that will supercharge our customers’ efficiency and outcomes at an unrivaled scale across the social impact community. This is the most popular and powerful software on the market today, and these improvements will ensure that fundraising remains at the forefront of innovation.”

At this month’s AFP Icon (NASDAQ:) conference, the largest gathering of fundraising professionals in the world, Blackbaud offered an advanced look at the new capabilities that are part of this end-to-end evolution. Upcoming Raiser’s Edge NXT updates that will be available to all users at no additional cost include:

• New powerful AI for fundraising to surface new donation opportunities, automate the customer journey to present the best next steps to cultivate valuable supporters, and generative AI to help fundraisers craft campaign communications, all powered by Blackbaud’s leading Intelligence for Good ^® strategy, with integrated best practice security principles.
• An optimized Raiser’s Edge NXT user experience supported by modern UX technology, carefully reinvented Everything is fine modern fundraising team player, designed to bring teams together to achieve the most important results, with 100% of critical workflows available in a single, unified view.
• Custom productivity dashboards this will allow each user to focus and prioritize next actions and critical tasks. Thanks to new executive visions, leaders will be able to make more agile decisions. Fundraising visualizations will identify priority outreach and engagement opportunities to shift key giving prospects toward mission-impacting donations.
• Better performing donation forms that offer free processing to attract more gifts and donors at lower costs. Designed to prioritize the donor experience while saving organizations time and money, Blackbaud’s optimized donation forms are mobile-first, displaying seamlessly on a website without the need to create a new web page, and allow payment directly within the form. The intelligence built into these modules will be able to automatically adjust the “scale of questions” to achieve higher-than-average donation amounts based on analysis of donor data.

Initial reactions to these improvements have been extremely positive, with enthusiastic crowds at Blackbaud’s AFP Icon exhibition booth seeing previews.

Jeff ShawVice President for Institutional Advancement at Harris-Stowe State University shared, “Moving from a very outdated CRM to Raiser’s Edge NXT was truly a game-changer for us. We are so pleased to have such a robust fundraising solution containing a suite of cutting-edge advancement tools, all in a simple user interface. Blackbaud does an exceptional job offering training courses, knowledge base solutions and an overall community of users that makes adapting to a new system less intimidating. We are excited about the arrival of more improvements and encouraged by what we saw from Blackbaud live at AFP Icon.”

These end-to-end improvements will be accompanied by robust customer support and enablement efforts to ensure users get maximum value from this evolution with minimal friction.

“Raiser’s Edge NXT plays an important role in our customers’ workdays, careers and professional success, and we never take it lightly,” he said Todd Lant, Client Manager, Blackbaud. “We are committed to ensuring that adopting these improvements is easy for our customers, accompanied by the right training and support.”

Organizations can learn about these future enhancements and more during the Raiser’s Edge NXT Product Update virtual briefing event. The North American session is underway Tuesday 30 AprilTO 2pm ETwith additional sessions for Europe and Pacific regions. Registration is available here.

About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the leading software provider dedicated exclusively to enhancing social impact. Serving the nonprofit and education sectors, companies committed to social responsibility and individual change-makers, Blackbaud’s essential software is created to accelerate impact in fundraising, non-profit financial management, giving digital, grant making, corporate social responsibility and education management. With millions of users and counting $100 billion collected, licensed or managed across Blackbaud platforms each year, Blackbaud solutions are unleashing the potential of people and organizations that change the world. Blackbaud was named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies and its list of Best Companies for Remote workersand Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers. Blackbaud is a remote company in which it operates the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom, supporting users in over 100 countries. Find out more about www.blackbaud.com or follow us on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram AND Facebook (NASDAQ:).

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