Get Ready for the bbdevdays Hackathon: Innovate and Win!
Sign up now for the bbdevdays hackathon! Participants are challenged to build a customization, automation, or business insight with their Blackbaud solutions. Designed to be fun, elevate skill sets, and grow your professional network, the hackathon is a time to showcase your innovations!
It's time to share your genius! Free for registered bbdevdays attendees, our virtual hackathon is a challenge-driven competition, running from May 5 - September 15, that brings together developers and innovators to extend and customize Blackbaud solutions.
Open to soloists or teams, participants aim to build customizations, automations, or business insights using Blackbaud solutions or APIs. Projects must be completed by September 15, and winners will be announced at bbcon on October 6!
Participants will compete in the following tracks:
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Fundraising
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Financial/Grant Management
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Education Management
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Data Quality/Hygiene
In addition to “Judge’s Choice: Best Use of AI” and “People’s Choice: Idea with the Most Votes,” winners will be chosen for each track and awarded $500 to split among team members. Get those thinking caps on, connect with teammates, and start your projects now!
For a detailed guide on how to sign up, find out how to get help from our experts, or just learn more about what a hackathon is, check out our bbdevdays 2025 Hackathon Guide.
If you need technical assistance for your project, join our open office hours on June 3, July 18, August 15, and September 8, 2025.
Feeling inspired? Comment your ideas below or start chatting with potential teammates. Whether you have a specific project in mind or are open to possibilities, now is the time to connect, engage, and grow your skills with others. We can’t wait to see what inspires you!
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I'd love someone to create a process where when a record is marked as “No Valid Address” an email is sent to the donor letting them know the most recent address we have on record and that we no longer have a valid address for them. It would then direct them to a form where they could provide the updated information. Form would be downloaded and address updated in RE.
Additionally, when an address is marked via Address Accelerator as “missing secondary” an email would go to the donor informing them we are missing information for their address and when they provide it via the form it would get updated in RE.
I'd love to see more automation for Portfolio Management in Altru. My first thought are to automatically adjust the plan steps based on a completed date so I don't have to manually push the steps forward or back.
We need a way to mark multiple records as deceased, along with adding the obituaries, in Raiser's Edge NXT, rather than looking for obituaries online and through funeral home websites, and then manually marking the records deceased.
I'm considering building an automated flow involved with marking records deceased in Raiser's Edge NXT. My org just recently ran DeceasedFinder which identified over 3,000 potential deceased records. Currently, the process of looking for obits online and then actually marking the records deceased is a very manual process. After I take care of the record in my database, I have to email my student records department with a link to the obit so that they can update records on their end. The two databases don't currently talk to each other, and they're in the process of changing software. I'm thinking I can build an automated flow which emails the records department every time I mark a record deceased and provides the info they need so I don't have to do a bunch of repetitive cutting and pasting. It's simple, but would save me time on my end until their software conversion is complete.
It would be great to automate a workflow that would automatically assign a series of actions for when new prospects (perhaps who would also meet certain criteria) are assigned, such as an introductory email or phone call within a month and a follow up action a week after the initial one. That would help them not get lost in large portfolios and/or if the prospect manager “misses” the notification bell icon.
Additionally, it would be great to also create a stewardship action (TY phone call) when prospects make a gift. Bonus points if it could utilize AI to draft talking points (like lifetime giving, if they are a scholarship donor, if they made their final pledge payment, etc.) to help spoonfeed the prospect manager. ;-)
Hi Julie, I want to echo this idea here. I would also love to see something similarly be demonstrated LIVE/pre-recorded and inserted into the presentation.
I think your stewardship example would be great to see, as it's little more in-depth rather than a basic action workflow creation, and keeps in mind that this information will help the relationship manager :)
Contemplating a Power Automate project for Education Management and surfacing profile changes by persona (e.g. Student, Parent, etc.) that are emailed out on a weekly basis to data stewards as applicable.