The Buzz: November 23, 2022

Happy Wednesday Community,


GivingTuesday Help

With less than a week until GivingTuesday 2022, you may be putting the finishing touches on your campaign or looking for some last-minute tips on how to engage supporters. Either way, you can find free resources on the GivingTuesday Impact Hub that will help you have a successful start to the season of giving! Our experts have compiled everything you need, all in one spot—including:

• Essential strategy checklists and interactive goal-setting worksheets
• Time-saving templates for email and social media
• Tips for creating engaging events, compelling online donation experiences, and stewarding donors
• Insights into major gifts and financial strategy

• Expert-led webinars
• Best practices, blogs, podcasts, and more!

Be sure to check it out if you haven’t already, and good luck to everyone participating!



Out of Office Dates:

Your community managers, Elizabeth, Crystal and I (Ray), will be out of the office on Thursday and Friday as Blackbaud observes the US Thanksgiving holiday. We wish everyone who is also celebrating a peaceful, happy Thanksgiving and look forward to being back with you all on Monday.



Featured Topics:

Raiser’s Edge®: Best Practices: Alumni who are married 

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: New feature: Donation Form Recurring Gift Upsell
 
Blackbaud Guided Fundraising™: Customer Message Examples 
 
Still time to vote!: Did you see that our Blackbaud Community is up for an award? 

Blackbaud Billing Management™: Two new features now available in Billing Management



Score Some Points and Help a Fellow Community Member:

Here's how: answer these questions with few or no responses! We will be awarding 1,000 points to any user who can answer one of these questions in Community this week
  
Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Email marketing and donation pages 
 
Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Lists scrolling as I exclude records 

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®: Reordering lines on Journal Entry

Blackbaud Luminate Online®: Using Schema in Luminate CMS

Blackbaud K-12 Education Solutions™: Difficulty getting GPA to calculate/appear



Career Builder:

Did you know the Blackbaud Community has a job board? You can post your organization’s job openings and members can also post that they are looking for a job.


This week’s featured jobs:

Membership Manager (Toronto, Canada)

Director of Development (NYC)

Prospect Research Manager (Atlanta, GA)

Staff Accountant & Purchasing Manager (Palm Beach, FL)



Events:

Blackbaud K-12 Education Solutions: Enrollment Management System – Enrollment Contracts – Refresh & Enhance (Nov 30)

Organizational Best Practices: Stewarding Beyond Giving Tuesday (Dec 8)

Blackbaud Grantmaking: What Story Does Your Form 990-PF Tell About Your Foundation? (Dec 15)



How do I… in community?

Please post any questions about how to use Community on this thread so, we can build a mini encyclopedia of how to use Community! Do you have a job posting, event, blog or question you want everyone to know about? Let other Community members know by leaving it in the comments below!