The Buzz: October 2024 Edition!

Hi Community,

We’ve got a lot to share with you in this month’s Buzz, so let’s get started!

bbcon 2024

Thank you for making bbcon 2024 a huge success! Whether you attended in person in Seattle or you watched the main stage sessions virtually, this year’s conference was full of inspiring moments. Blackbaud also shared numerous exciting product announcements, which you can read about here. And starting October 15, you’ll be able to watch the main stage sessions and select breakout session on-demand. If you haven’t yet registered for the free virtual pass, you can do that here.

Did you attend or watch? Share your favorite moments in this bbcon community discussion. You can also share your favorite pictures from the event here.

Here are some of our favorites!

(Courtesy: Austen Brown)

(Courtesy: Dan Snyder)

Blackbaud Impact Award Winners & Finalists

The winners of the Blackbaud Impact Awards were announced at bbcon! We are so proud that so many Impact Award winners and finalists are part of this community. You will spot them around our community with their new badges on their profile pages!

Read about this year’s award winners here and the finalists here.

2025 Blackbaud Community All-Star Nomination Period Opening Soon

Do you enjoy helping peers as a member of the Blackbaud Community? Have you admired the All-Stars you’ve seen doing AMAs (ask me anythings) and answering questions, and are interested in also elevating your status as a product expert? Do you want to deepen your engagement with Blackbaud and benefit from some extra perks as a reward for your efforts? We’ll be opening the nomination period for the 2025 cohort of the Blackbaud Community All-Stars later this month and we encourage all interested community members to apply! You can read more about the program expectations and perks here. Keep an eye out for the announcement here in Community News.

October’s Monthly Challenge & Exclusive Badge

Thanks to community member Lauren Henderson for inspiring this month’s challenge! During Alex Wong’s Ask an All-Star session last month, she asked Alex what his nonprofit origin story was. What a great question! We’d love to hear your social impact origin story – what got you involved with your organization? Let us know in this forum discussion in Just for Fun and earn this fun exclusive badge

Ask an All-Star

Mark your calendars for our next Ask an All-Star session in the Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® community! All-Star Christine Robertson will be answering your questions about data cleanup and mailing lists (including segmentation). The session will be held October 15th-October 17th, so get your questions ready!

Community Kudos

We want to thank all our top engagers in the community for the past quarter in this month’s Community Kudos! They earned points by answering questions, posting discussions, liking posts, and posting comments.

Top Contributor (Member)

Alex Wong (361 responses given!)

Top Contributor (Partner)

Austen Brown (9,000+ actions and 528,000 points earned!)

*These other helpful Community members also received Top Contributors badges:

Christine Robertson (3,000 friend requests sent!)
Miki Martin
Dariel Dixon
Elizabeth Johnson
Jennifer Kluh
JoAnn Strommen
Irene Hui
Carlene Johnson
Dan Snyder

We also want to thank our Blackbaud employees who earned a top contributor badge:

Kevin Brazell
David Springer
Nikki Baldwin
Bryna Gleich
Christopher Anderson
Jewell Willett
Erik Leaver
Bryan Lorenzo
Rosita Bradham
Stephen Boyle

Community Tip of the Month:

Building connections in Blackbaud Community is a great way to expand your network Check out this help center blog to learn how to use the member search feature to find and connect with other members who share commonalities like organization type, location, job role, and more.

Blackbaud’s Giving Glow-Up Giveaway

If you use Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, Blackbaud Altru®, or Blackbaud CRM®, you’ve got a chance to win a $5,000 donation to your organization! This contest is only open to customers in the United States at this time. To be eligible, you must be fundraising with Blackbaud's Standard or Optimized Donation Forms and have processed at least 10 donations by the end of GivingTuesday, on December 3, 2024. You can read more about the contest here. Good luck!

New Blackbaud Institute Research on Spontaneous Giving

The latest Blackbaud Institute report is out, and it takes a look at what drives spontaneous giving and how organizations can foster repeat donations from this segment of donors. Check out all the valuable insights here.

Events

• User Group: Microsoft Power BI User Group (Wednesday, October 9th at Noon EST)

• User Group: Microsoft Power Automate User Group (Tuesday, October 15th at Noon EST)

• User Group (In Person): Raiser's Edge® and Raiser's Edge NXT® User Group Meeting, Charlotte, NC at Ascend Nonprofit Solutions (Wednesday, October 23rd at 10am EST)

• Webinar: Creating a Compelling Online Donation Experience for GivingTuesday (Thursday, October 24th at Noon EST)

• Webinar: Partnerships, Collaboration, and Collective Impact: A Funder’s Role in the Continuum of Nonprofit Collaboration (Thursday, October 31st at 11am EST)

Birthdays

We want to wish our Libras and Scorpios a very happy birthday! If you celebrate a birthday in October, let us know in the comments below so we can wish you the best birthday ever.