The Buzz: November 2024 Edition!

Hi Community,

We are excited to announce our latest challenge and unique badge opportunity all around Blackbaud’s Product Update Briefings!

Register Now for the Upcoming Product Update Briefings:

The Product Update Briefings, virtual sessions highlighting recent innovations and future roadmap direction for Blackbaud’s software solutions, start today and run through November 15th. Sessions are scheduled for the North America, Europe, and Pacific regions.

The briefings are also a great opportunity to hear about how the suggestions you’ve made and voted on in the product ideas banks have impacted product development! You can register here for the briefings that impact your work, or for those products that you’d like to learn more about.

November Monthly Challenge:

After you watch the Product Update Briefing for your Blackbaud solution(s), be sure to head to the relevant product community and participate in the discussion sharing what you are excited about.

Here are the links to the product discussions:

Blackbaud Altru®
Blackbaud Award Management™ & Blackbaud Stewardship Management™
Blackbaud CRM™ Product Update Briefing!
Blackbaud eTapestry®
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®
Blackbaud Grantmaking™
Blackbaud K-12 Education Solutions™
Blackbaud Luminate Online & TeamRaiser®
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®
ResearchPoint™

Members who respond to these discussions will receive this exclusive badge for completing November’s monthly challenge:

Community Update:

You may have noticed a fresh look for our homepage! We added links to Blackbaud’s Knowledgebase, Blackbaud Support, and BlackbaudU Campus to make it easier for you to find all the support resources you need when you are logged into the Blackbaud Community. These resources are now also easily accessible in the help drop down in the top navigation.

Community Kudos!

We’d like to start our monthly community kudos by recognizing our top points earner in October, All-Star Austen Brown, whoracked up 164,000 points. She’s now earned over two million points in the community! You can also read Austen’s Ask an All-Star recap blog here. Keep shining, Austen!

All-Star Alex Wong continues his winning streak of most questions answered with 152 replies in October.

All-Star Dan Snyder handed out the most likes on posts in October, with 215!

Thanks to all our All-Stars and look for an announcement this week about 2025 cohort nominations!

bbcon 2024 on Demand!

Just a reminder that our bbcon is on demand and still available for a limited time! If you missed any of the highlights, you can rewatch them now until January 30th. When you watch bbcon on demand, you’ll experience inspiring messages from Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph and mental health ambassador Dr. Alex George. You’ll also learn more about the six major waves of innovation announced on the mainstage, Click here for bbcon on demand!

New Blackbaud Institute Research on Turning Unplanned Giving into Long-term Support

The latest Blackbaud Institute report is out! Want to learn what drives spontaneous, first-time giving or how to turn first-time donors into repeat donors? Check out all the valuable insights here.

Events:

• Blackbaud’s Product Update Briefings: (Tuesday, November 12th – Friday, November 15th)

• User Group: Microsoft Power BI User Group (Wednesday, November 13th at Noon EST)

• User Group: Microsoft Power Automate User Group  (Tuesday, November 19th at Noon EST)

• Product Tour:  Introduction to Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® and Blackbaud Grantmaking™ (Thursday, November 21st at 11am EST)

• Webinar: Connect for Success: Get the Most Out of Your Applications (Tuesday, November 16th at 2pm EST)

• Webinar: Stewardship Beyond Your End of Year Campaign (Thursday, December 5th at Noon EST)

Birthdays & Happy Holidays!

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

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, we want to wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays!