What’s New in Blackbaud Grantmaking™ - October 11

Shaughn Kern

Read on to learn about multi-factor authentication for grantee accounts and a miscellaneous UI improvement in Grantmaking.

Multi-factor authentication option for organization-specific Grantee Portals

Administrators can now require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all grantee accounts. MFA provides an additional level of security to funder-specific Grantee Portals by requiring grantees to enter an email confirmation code.

This feature is currently available, but is not enabled by default, so will not affect user login until toggled. You can find the Enable multi-factor authentication setting under the Security Settings section of the Account Designer (Applications > Forms Manager > Settings > Account Designer).

New users will be prompted to configure MFA when they create their account; existing users will be prompted to configure MFA the first time they log in after Enable multi-factor authentication is selected.

The Grantee Portal MFA option concludes a long list of recent features that improve account security. You can see the full list of security changes in the Authentication and Security Changes (2022) help topic.

Efficiency and usability feedback

We’ve heard your feedback (via the Grantmaking Ideas Portal) that some of those green confirmation popups (“toast messages”) are taking up too much of your screen, especially when working with lots of records. We’re taking steps to reduce those popups.

We’ve started by removing these messages from the areas of Grantmaking where there is redundant messaging in place, namely during successful operations involving requests:

• Approving or declining a request
• Setting a request back to pending status
• Locking or unlocking a request

We are researching other areas of Grantmaking (including the Report Manager and Blueprint Forms) where we can remove these messages or reduce their frequency.