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.