“Over all, what I learned from the hurricane, more than anything, is there is no way to overestimate the generosity of people. It is amazing and humbling when you go through it. If you provide the tools to do so, they will surprise you every time.”

“Because of how efficient Blackbaud Guided Fundraising™ has made our team, we’ve had the unique opportunity to pause solicitation calls and focus solely on checking in on alumni and nurturing those personal connections.”

“Blackbaud software empowers us to have a database, which then empowers the fundraiser to know who the people are that are giving.”

"Raiser’s Edge NXT made the database more opportune for the whole organization, not just the development team. It is really making things easier to understand. Data is clean and readable as we look to expand those who access the data."

"Blackbaud Strategy Services took the guess work out of our email campaign efforts. Everything came together strategically in our 2012 year-end campaign and the results exceeded our expectations."

"One of the early wins we saw with Altru is growth in constituents. In two months using Altru, we added almost as many new constituents as we had previously added in five years. Altru allows us to capture more supporter information, which means we have new prospects for ticket sales, …

"Parents can see what their son is doing up front and get more involved with the actual process of learning. It goes beyond just seeing an assignment or a grade at the end. Teachers, students, and parents are connected and in the loop starting on day one of the learning …

"The Luminate platform made it easier for us to track who was getting emails, who was not taking action, and then respond accordingly to mobilize as many people as possible to lobby against the budget cuts."

"Through Blackbaud, we were able to better segment our audience, target our messages and track our results in real-time. That made our jobs easier.”

"Luminate Online allowed us to run a campaign that re-engaged our users in a fun unique way and grew our audience! The campaign ended up with a great 27% open rate and 10% click through rate. I can’t wait to see what we can do next!"

"Being able to successfully raise funds to really support the programs that take care of wildlife and provide education has been amazing.”

"We can’t just work in online media. We have to make sure we have a direct mail piece that matches with an online piece that also matches our social media outreach. The Blackbaud platform allows us to coordinate multichannel communication in one place, and that just makes things easier.”

"Getting timely information out of our old system in a useful format was impossible. Using Financial Edge has really enhanced our ability to be more forward-looking and to focus our energies on strategically managing the business. Financial Edge is incredibly intuitive, and Blackbaud’s training and support are fantastic. The instructors …

“We’re saving one hour of data entry time per event just by switching from Square to Blackbaud MobilePay. We’re also saving one percent per transaction on credit card processing fees.”

“We were extremely pleased with it, everyone who used the RE:Event app mentioned that it could not have been easier to operate.”