The Buzz: October 2024 Edition!

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Welcome to October’s issue of The Buzz. Inside you’ll find details on our next Ask an All-Star event, the October community challenge, our Q3 Community Kudos, and more!

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!

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(Courtesy: Austen Brown)

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(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

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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

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.

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