650 Blackbaud Testimonials

“Our application is so much easier to use now. Very few times do applicants come to us and say, ‘I don’t understand what you want us to do."

“It doesn’t have to feel personal when there’s a parent in arrears with tuition. They don’t have to face the people they see at events and at school.”

"It has saved us days of time, not just hours."

“We’ve seen a very significant increase in the number of volunteer fundraisers held to benefit Marshfield Clinic.”

“We chose AcademicWorks because of its functionality and value. I particularly liked the easy application process for students, the review process, profiles to highlight donors, and the ability to export information to our foundation management software.”

“The products that Blackbaud offers and provides to us allow us to identify and track those patients in a way that we can really segment them and do the best job in tracking them so that the major gift officers have a better success rate with our patients."

“The best part of Blackbaud Award Management for us has been the improvements to our reviewing process. I can see the status of all my reviewers and can easily reassign any incomplete review. Blackbaud Award Management has sped up our review process and helps me to make awards faster.”

“A typical day for us is going to be right around one million [impressions]—so, if you can think of adding 139 times what our normal impressions would be in a day, that’s the power of #GivingTuesday for us.”

“Our fundraising has increased exponentially. We were able to grow from about $12 million to $20 million consistently, with the same staff and a reduction of resources.”

“Our end-of-year giving has grown exponentially year after year since we began working with Blackbaud. It’s my personal belief that we have Luminate Online to thank for much of that growth.”

“One of the beautiful things about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is that it is real fund accounting software; it does the interfund transactions automatically!”

“No matter how many times I take the classes, there’s always some tip or trick that I either didn’t know or forgot. And I always come away thinking, ‘I’m so glad I did that.”

“Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT has really helped us accomplish our goals this past year, but you need the right person managing it and the right training.”

“Because of Blackbaud, we can now effectively target and segment groups of people and no longer have to manage groups using gigantic lists— which is very helpful when you consider the potential obstacles you can encounter using static lists to manage email communication.”

“Now is a good time to build sustainers, because people are used to subscription-based services with things like Netflix. People are used to having payments automatically deducted on a monthly basis. We’re taking advantage of that.”