Quick Guide to bbcon 2024 Sessions for Frontline Fundraisers
They don’t call you frontline fundraisers for nothing. You’re the organization’s first point of contact for prospects and donors. And you stand at the leading edge of innovative technologies and tactics to raise more money and more awareness for your mission. If it’s new and it cuts through the noise to help you do more for your cause, you’re there. That’s why bbcon 2024 in Seattle is the place to be for frontline fundraisers.
What’s bbcon? It’s Blackbaud’s annual three-day conference for nonprofit professionals highlighting what’s next in fundraising software and strategy. It’s a true community experience, allowing you to network with the best and most innovative minds in the industry. Starting Sept. 24, bbcon kickoff is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, our quick guide to bbcon 2024 highlights just a few of the on-point sessions frontline fundraisers won’t want to miss.
Digital Pipeline Management: Harnessing Analytics and Automation for Mid-Level Donor Cultivation
In this practical session with Paul St. Onge, Co-Founder of Doing Good Digital, and Carol Belair, Principal Analytics Consultant for Blackbaud, gain effective strategies for identifying and engaging midlevel prospects, using predictive modeling, digital fundraising tactics, and automated communications. Learn more.
Boost Conversion Rates, Gain Insight into Your Supporters & Raise More Money with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®
In this nuts-and-bolts session, learn how to use Optimized Donation Forms for more efficient new donor conversion, expand adoption of the donor portal, and leverage data intelligence such as Prospect Insights to identify and qualify new major giving prospects. All these tools are integrated into Raiser’s Edge NXT. Learn more.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Actionable Fundraising Tactics Using Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® and Analytics
In this how-we-do-it session that will be particularly useful for small shops, the one-person fundraising leader for the Alzar School shares how integrating analytics and improving prospect management can maximize opportunity for even the leanest teams. Learn more.
Best Practices in Portfolio Management
In this session hosted by Blackbaud Strategic Consultant Michael Van Dyke, explore how strategies for portfolio management can help frontline fundraisers guide a prospect through the major gift solicitation cycle, from first engagement through stewardship. You’ll see how you can optimize your portfolio with better coverage, churn, and composition. Learn more.
Do Prospect Researchers and Frontline Fundraisers Speak the Same Language?
In this session focused on gifts insights and prospect research, explore why frontline fundraisers and prospect researchers might be united in their goals, but often find their methods at odds. Blackbaud Consultant Lauren Enlow helps frontline fundraisers bridge the gap when it comes to portfolio review. Learn more.
Opening the Toolbox: Utilizing Predictive Analytics to Build Your Fundraising Program
In this how-to session with Sandra Gray, AVP for Advancement at Knox College, and Steph McCluskey, Blackbaud Manager of Analytics Services, learn how fundraising software and predictive models help frontline fundraisers build a more robust data-driven annual giving and major giving pipeline. Learn more.
Save Your Spot
Join thousands of frontline fundraisers at the Seattle Convention Center, Sept. 24—26, 2024, for dozens of exceptional sessions and experiences, including:
- Welcome Reception
- Breakout sessions
- Amazing keynote speakers
- Luminary super sessions
- Marketplace
- Can’t-miss bbcon bash
- Access to all Blackbaud Product Update Briefings
There’s nothing quite like meeting and sharing ideas with other frontline fundraisers, so register for bbcon 2024 in Seattle today.
See you in Seattle!
