Adoption and Satisfaction for Blackbaud’s Flagship Cloud Innovation Continues to Climb
Raiser’s Edge NXT, Blackbaud’s flagship fundraising and relationship management solution, was the first innovation powered by Blackbaud SKY™, the company’s highly-lauded cloud built exclusively for the social good community. Throughout the last 12 months, Raiser’s Edge NXT adoption and satisfaction has rapidly grown, while Blackbaud SKY was expanded to power many more solutions as part of the company’s leading cloud portfolio.
“We believe best evidence that our R&D investments, our customer-centered innovation model, and our commitment to quality are working comes when the market speaks and tells us so,” said
Organizations of all sizes are sharing how Raiser’s Edge NXT has helped them discover new opportunities to accelerate their missions. Examples:
Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU), which provides professional and liberal arts programs that integrate community engagement, social justice and global peace, cited an average gift size increase of 881 percent. “Raiser’s Edge NXT has been a lifesaver, it helps my team ensure that we find the appropriate prospects to send to our major gifts team,” saidDino Hernandez , vice president for Advancement at NDNU. “By using the wealth rating system in Raiser’s Edge NXT, we were able to successfully meet with donors and confidently move them from a lower to a higher ask amount. One donor even went from$5,000 to $50,000!”African Wildlife Foundation , which works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands ofAfrica will endure forever, saw improved fundraising performance. “Raiser’s Edge NXT is helping us achieve our mission by enabling us to bring in new prospects, engage ongoing donors, and easily see where we have gaps to fill and navigate through our portfolios to identify who can give more,” saidEmily Gray , major gifts officer. “I have seen an increase in donations based on understanding the donor better – when they give, how they give, and how often they give. Raiser’s Edge NXT also gives us access to institutional knowledge and history, and helps me manage our giving chronologically and geographically.”Water Mission , a Christian nonprofit that builds safe water solutions that break through the global water crisis, identified a massive opportunity to further scale the work to 100,000 more people in need. “Within minutes of turning on Raiser’s Edge NXT the built-in analytics identified a large number of constituents with the potential to give$1000 or more—constituents who did not yet have a relationship manager assigned,” said Rogers Hook, vice president of volunteer and investor partnerships. “Cultivating those opportunities would mean we can provide 100,000 more people with safe water for the rest of their lives!”- Bridge2Rwanda, which encourages foreign direct investment and creates opportunities for Rwandan students to study abroad, cites noteworthy productivity gains with Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Anna Phillips , co-founder and director of Development said, “We have a small team and we are committed to keeping down administrative costs so being able to have a way where we can do this all in one system is key. Raiser’s Edge NXT allows me to increase efficiency and spend more face to face time with donors instead of on administrative tasks in order to keep up with all the info and the data. Spending as much time in front of the donors and increased efficiency allows us to be out there more and sharing our mission more, sharing the impact that our mission has on the lives of our students." Fanshawe College , one ofOntario , Canada’s largest colleges that serves close to a half a million people, lauds the role of Raiser’s Edge NXT in creating momentum around its five-year plan. “When we were first introduced to Raiser’s Edge NXT we almost started to cry because it gave us everything we needed to develop our program according to the five-year plan we had already created,” saidJason Drury , manager of Advancement Services. “Having mobile access was also extremely important to us, when fundraisers are out on the road or in meetings, they need to be able to turn their phone around and show donors exactly where their money is going, Raiser’s Edge NXT is helping us engage on an entirely new level.”
New! SKY Reporting Brings Unprecedented Business Intelligence to Social Good Software
Since its release last year, more than 10,000 customers are already experiencing the power of Blackbaud SKY™, the company’s modern, open cloud for the social good community. Thousands of rapid, innovative software updates have been made available to customers as part of Blackbaud’s commitment to building best practices into its solutions and keeping customers on the leading edge. Among the newest of many advanced capabilities powering Blackbaud’s cloud solutions is SKY Reporting.
“Blackbaud SKY’s rapid innovation framework has enabled us to make thousands of updates to our cloud solutions in the last year while introducing new, advanced capabilities like SKY Reporting,” said
Blackbaud’s first generation of SKY Reporting, which promises to benefit both individual contributors and executives, was made available to all Raiser’s Edge NXT customers as part of a seamless update. The company collaborated with customers on use cases and researched tens of thousands of customer-created reports to deliver best-practices to the entire market and to dramatically speed up productivity related to reporting and analysis.
“SKY reporting has definitely saved me time, and because it is user friendly, I am able to do much of the reporting and analysis myself,” said
In Q4, the first generation of SKY Reporting will be available as part of Financial Edge NXT™ (financial management), Luminate Online™ (marketing), and Blackbaud’s K-12 ON products. The second generation of SKY Reporting will be available to Raiser’s Edge NXT customers in 2017.
To learn more about Raiser’s Edge NXT, Blackbaud SKY, or Blackbaud’s entire cloud portfolio, visit www.Blackbaud.com.
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