Building a Complete Virtual Auction Toolkit: 5 Essentials
Virtual auctions are a great way to raise support and engage donors heading into the year-end giving season, but you’ll need the right tools on your side.
Encourage Recurring Giving: 3 Simple Digital Strategies
According to monthly giving statistics, recurring donors tend to give 42% more per year than one-time donors. When you take [...]
Beyond the Venue: Innovative Platforms for Charitable Events
There are always questions about the future of fundraising: What trends will take hold? What new technology will be the [...]
6 Tips for Building a Successful Workplace Giving Strategy
As a nonprofit or educational institution, you know firsthand the importance of fundraising to support your mission programming. One often-overlooked [...]
Making Sense of the Buzz Around ChatGPT
The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might [...]
5 Trends in Grantmaking that We Think Have Staying Power
Sometimes trends are purely of the moment—a fun way to mark the past, like shag carpet and 8-track tapes. But [...]
5 Advantages of Grants Management Software
The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager. From applications to reviews to reporting, [...]
AI in Grantmaking: Taking Careful Steps Toward the Future
By now you’ve likely seen or heard about artificial intelligence (AI), and the predictions that it’s going to upend everything [...]
Trends in Grantmaking: Achieving Lasting Impact Through Trust-Based Philanthropy
Trust must be earned. “Earning” denotes work. And that work can come in a variety of forms: work by your [...]
4 Ways Your Grantmaking Organization Can Stay Relevant to Your Community’s Changing Needs
Managing a mission while meeting the evolving needs of a community is a complex and dynamic process. As communities change [...]
