Manager Skills

Clearing a Path to a Better Website

By: Caleb Copper, Blackbaud Interactive Designer With summer just around the corner, now is a great time to examine your [...]

Process Automation

Build, Buy, or Customize?

When should you customize software, and what are the tradeoffs?

Digital Marketing

Content Marketing for Nonprofits [Survey]

Blackbaud partners with The Content Marketing Institute on first ever nonprofit content marketing research report. Frank Barry & Joe Pulizzi join forces.

Strategic Planning

The Crux – Aligning Fundraising and Programming

The reality is: Good programs need good fundraising, and good fundraising needs good programs.

Data Health

Data Hygiene: Is a bad address costing your organization?

According to the National Change of Address through the United States Postal Service, nearly 40 million Americans move annually. [...]

Digital Marketing

4 Ways to Boost Retention Using Post-event Communications

With apologies to Yogi Berra for the mangled quote, in the world of peer-to-peer fundraising, an event ain’t over, even [...]

Thanks for Asking

Ultimately, it’s what you do with the feedback that counts. If you are going to ask, be prepared to really listen and be prepared to act. [...]

Annual Giving

Quieting a Ticking Clock

Is your fiscal year end right around the corner? If so, minimize stress and maximize outcomes with these three easy steps.

Digital Marketing

Symbols in Subject Lines… ♥ Them or ✄ Them?

Increase email open rates & help your message stand out in a crowded inbox includes tips for effective use of symbols in subject lines.

Online Giving

Blackbaud Index for April 2013

Latest update on trends across more than $10 billion in overall fundraising.

Budgeting

It’s All in the Preparation

Questions to ask when embarking on a predictive modeling and/or wealth screening project

Data Insights

Don’t Trust Me, Trust Science!

How can you increase your online donations by 20%? I don't know for sure, you can answer that question using the scientific method and Google Analytics.

Data Insights

Engaging Young Donors

One of the biggest challenges facing non-profit organizations today is changes in generational giving.

Financial Reporting

How Development and Finance Can Get Along (Really!)

Most people understand that their development and finance departments are both critical to the success of their nonprofit organization. Many [...]