Meet the Winners of the 2024 Blackbaud Impact Awards!

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The Blackbaud Impact Awards recognize the extraordinary purpose-driven customers that are using Blackbaud software to fuel impact 

The moment has arrived! It’s time to celebrate the winners of the 2024 Blackbaud Impact Awards! These awards honor the incredible achievements of purpose-led organizations across the globe who leverage Blackbaud software to unleash new possibilities and drive deeper mission impact.

Join us in applauding the six winners! Their stories set powerful examples of innovation, creative problem-solving, collaboration, and dedication to mission. To learn more about their work and how they achieved tremendous results, visit the Blackbaud Impact Awards website. 

The winners of the 2024 Blackbaud Impact Awards are:

  • The Silo Buster Award: Adventist Health - For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, Blackbaud Online Express™, Blackbaud Luminate Online®, Research Point™, Blackbaud Website Package, and Omatic, a Blackbaud partner, to bring 25 markets into a single donor database with single donor records, creating a standardized, system-wide approach to managing donor data, prospect research and philanthropy communication.

  • The Changemaker Award: Turtle Creek Association - For their use of Blackbaud eTapestry® to significantly grow their membership base, increase engagement, optimize fundraising efforts, and improve operational efficiency so their small team can continue to have an outsized impact on the restoration and sustainability of a treasured local natural corridor.

  • The Fueling Greatness Award: Jackson - For their use of YourCause® CSRConnect® to create a data-driven strategy to revitalize employee volunteerism and deepen relationships with nonprofit partners, resulting in surpassing their 2023 employee volunteerism goal by 18 percentage points and impacting more than 400 nonprofits in communities across the United States.

  • The Data Strategist Award: Combat Stress - For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to capture, analyze, and action on data that helped them create an award-winning stewardship program that has significantly grown pledge rates, new donor inquiries, average donation size, and lapsed donor re-engagement.

  • The Futurist Award: University of Manitoba - For their use of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® and SKY API to transform their most complex, time-consuming, and challenging set of business processes and workflow for gift processing.

  • The Outstanding Leadership Award: Katie M. Lewis, Executive Director, Burger King Foundation - For strategic leadership that has reinvigorated relationships with stakeholders, bolstered innovation, and increased the Foundation’s impact on the students and communities it serves.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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