What am I supposed to be doing now? How do I use these eLearning applications? What is the assignment for the day? I had lots of questions about homeschooling my kindergartner and there were times I felt my daughter knew more than I did. It most certainly was a learning curve for the both of us. Learning online has never been so accessible and needed as it is ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our Blackbaud Award Management users who became Fundamentals certified, or renewed their certification, in May! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud Community friends, and congratulating them on this significant achievement. To ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our Blackbaud Award Management users who became Fundamentals certified, or renewed their certification, so far in 2020! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud Community friends, and congratulating them on this significant ... more

You asked and we listened! You can now create cover letters to liven up donor reports and the Donor Portal. Cover letters are like bulletins, but they provide additional formatting and personalization options (image placement, merge fields, different fonts, etc.). Most likely, you’ll use cover letters to share a letter from your president or ... more

In times like these, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the big things. Stores are closed, the kids are home, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring.  I’d recommend—as much to myself as to all of you—to focus on the little things instead. Take a walk. Smell the flowers. Chuckle at how many people are using your “family” Netflix account.  Thinking ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our  Blackbaud Award Management  users who became  Fundamentals  certified, or renewed their certification, in January 2020! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud  Community   friends, and congratulating them on this significant ... more

My husband and I were introduced to each other through a work friend over 12 years ago. After that first meeting, the interest was definitely there but we were set in our ways of the single life. So we decided to start with the fundamentals , which meant just getting to know each other better—and that ultimately started a beautiful relationship. The way our ... more

Howdy all, Just wanted to post and let y'all know about the latest from our development team. Over January 2019, we made the following changes for our clients: Award Management (included are updates to Engage): Added detailed task guides to provide better user assistance (check out the Manage reviewers one!) Made qualifications more accessible ... more

You’re working in your product and—suddenly—you realize you don’t know what to do next. You may be thinking things like: “What the heck does this button do?” “Why can’t I access this do-hickey?” “Where in the world are these settings they speak of?” Instead of banging your head on the table—trust me, it only increases the headache—turn to your trusty ... more

Wondering how to get up to speed on  Stewardship Management ? I've added the following links to the  Resources  area of the Community. Assistance and Resources page :   The  Award Management Resources page  is the central hub for all your  Stewardship Management  resources, including how to get started, help documentation, training options, as well ... more

Wondering how to get up to speed on  Award Management ? I've added the following links to the  Resources  area of the Community. Assistance and Resources page :   The  Award Management Resources page  is the central hub for all your  Award Management  resources, including how to get started, help documentation, training options, as well as help ... more

Howdy all, Just wanted to post and let y'all know about the latest from our development team. Over December 2019, we made the following changes: Improved donor reporting with new  fund description  fields Increased the flexibility of system grids For more details about these features, check out the  What's New ! more

Howdy all, Just wanted to post and let y'all know about the latest from our development team. Over December 2019, we made the following changes: Improved donor reporting with new fund description fields Improved user import troubleshooting by adding data type errors Added the ability to filter by opportunity status Added the ability to access ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our  Blackbaud Award Management  users who became  Fundamentals  certified, or renewed their certification, in December 2019! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud  Community   friends, and congratulating them on this significant ... more

Blackbaud University offers certified learning opportunities that recognize student achievement and help validate product knowledge. We provide these development opportunities to reflect our students’ commitment to excellence.  Great New Year’s news— Blackbaud University 2020 Certification is available now! Fundamentals ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our Blackbaud Award Management users who became Fundamentals certified, or renewed their certification, in November! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud Community friends, and congratulating them on this significant ... more

Blackbaud University is excited to celebrate our Blackbaud Award Management users who became Fundamentals certified, or renewed their certification, in October! Be sure to review our listing and celebrate your colleagues by viewing their profiles, becoming Blackbaud Community friends, and congratulating them on this significant ... more

If I’ve learned anything over the past 28 years, it’s this: no one wants my creative wedding gifts. It doesn’t matter how much time or effort I’ve put into that friendship collage or choreographed dance solo … my time would have been better spent buying a set of knives. That’s the whole point of having a registry, right? Sure, you’re letting people pick and ... more

Ready to learn the most effective, efficient, and cost-effective processes for producing optimal results for your work efforts? Interested in learning about the latest  social good  trends? And would you like to provide that training to everyone on your staff—even if they are  not  Blackbaud Award Management users? Then we’ve got good news! ... more

Of all the professions I know, there’s one that totally blows my mind: wine sommeliers. Here I am, barely able to distinguish between a merlot and a cabernet sauvignon, and they’re tasting notes of cherry, chocolate, and cappuccino and just a hint of toasted oak. It’s just flat out amazing how well they’ve trained their tongues to pick up those little ... more

In all my years of higher education, the coolest thing I ever learned about was the Salton Sea . Originally thought of as a paradise for Southern Californians, this housing development quickly un-developed, turning into a strange, historically preserved wasteland. Half-built houses, classic automobiles rusting in garages, mounds and mounds of ... more

Read the blog, 3 Stewardship Techniques to Scale Your Fundraising Efforts by Sam Venable, Principal Business Consultant at Blackbaud, to find out more about the shift of institutions on mega-gifts to reach their fundraising goals and why this shift will prove to be problematic in the long run.  With data to back this up, Sam argues that the heart of a ... more

Read the blog,  3 Ways to Enhance Donor Stewardship with Technology by Kaela Mazzalo, Senior Solution Marketing Manager and Nicole Luper, Content Marketing Manager, both at Blackbaud.  Here is an exert from the informative article:  Those at the leading-edge of transforming donor stewardship leverage technology to help them show donors their ... more

It’s spring! As the thermometer rises, the snow melts, and life re-emerges from winter hibernation we can’t help but be excited for new learners coming into our classes. WHERE DO I START? Start at the beginning, of course! Blackbaud University training begins with a Fundamentals series of courses which cover basic product concepts relevant to your ... more

Everything we build is based on the suggestions and feedback of our users. We rely on your input to build a product that serves all your Scholarship Management and Stewardship Management needs. If you have a new idea or are faced with a challenge that our product doesn’t solve for today, we want to hear from you! You can use the “Ideas” tabs in the Community ... more