Seven Strategies for Successful
Fundraising Events in 2023

Tuesday, January 17 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Are you responsible for organizing a fundraising event or events? Understanding how crazy-challenging this endeavor has been over the last three years, we’ve asked our partners at ClickBid, the “crazy simple event fundraising” company, to offer an analysis of successful strategies and tactics based on their experience supporting thousands of fundraising events.

Whether you’re beginning your 2023 planning process or fine tuning your existing plans, you’ll benefit from this session. Matthew Burnell, founder of ClickBid and 20+ year veteran of event fundraising will walk through proven strategies to engage your entire donor base through charitable events.

Including:

• Optimizing admission and donation forms
• Securing auction items to boost your event experience
• Using communication templates and developing a schedule
• Introducing early online bidding to increase raised funds
• Implementing a crazy simple check in experience
• Inviting donors to participate online (the painless way)
• Sharing your event data with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®

Quantifying the Value of "Handraisers"
and Planned Giving

Tuesday, January 31 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Handraisers are individuals who openly signal to an organization that they have interest in leaving a planned gift. Planned giving directors and gift officers can often have difficulty in justifying their annual budgets and efforts to cultivate these handraisers as compared to other initiatives that immediately bring money in the door for the organization.

This session explains how planned giving handraisers can be some of a gift officer's best leads—not just in the future, but right now. Brantley Boyett, co-founder and president of Giving Docs, and Jade Bristol, chief development officer at Giving Docs, will review behavioral science research behind this statement and answer questions like: Does a person signifying intent also have a quantifiable value to the organization before a gift is closed? Do they donate more or volunteer more than a typical donor? Are there other ways that they provide greater support to your mission?

View this webinar to learn:

• The reality of today's handraisers and how they are currently valued
• A clear framework for understanding the monetary value of a handraiser
• Creative ways to get prospects to raise their hands

Automate Your Organization with
Microsoft Power Platform

Tuesday, February 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET

When we released our first Certified Connector for the Microsoft Power Platform in 2020, we couldn’t have anticipated the enthusiastic creativity of our customer and partner community in finding practical uses for these tools to solve real-world business process challenges. From automating donor service request processing to facilitating grant applications to crazy-clever event-based fundraising reporting, the community has showed up and shared these solutions. Discover why over 1,200 Blackbaud customers have already connected to the Power Platform to build creative solutions for their unique challenges.

Co-presented by Aaron Rendell of Encodian, this session is designed for hands-on users and technology decision-makers who want to understand ways the Microsoft Power Platform, used together with Blackbaud solutions, can quickly and inexpensively help solve business challenges. In this session, you will:

• Learn where Blackbaud NXT solutions and the Power Platform meet
• Find out what the Power Platform really is
• See success stories from the Blackbaud community
• Receive exclusive review and discovery session giveaways to help build your Power Platform strategy

Applicable for Blackbaud solutions like Raiser’s Edge NXT®, Financial Edge NXT®, Blackbaud CRM™, or any software that has an open API. Encodian is a multi-award-winning Microsoft Partner with proven expertise in helping businesses of all sizes to maximize their investments in Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Automate, PowerApps and Azure.

How to Build a Microsoft Power Platform App
in Thirty Minutes

Wednesday, March 1 at 11:00 a.m. ET

Learn how the Microsoft Power Platform empowers technically-minded “citizen developers” to automate workflows, build applications, integrate external applications, and create data visualizations and advanced reporting.

During this interactive session, we’ll walk you step-by-step through building a simple application using Microsoft Power Platform tools that can very easily be incorporated into your Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® user experience. You'll be able to:

• Follow along with experts from Encodian as they demonstrate how to build an app, connect it to Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT data, and deploy it to your account
• See how easily Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT integrates through the Power Platform to hundreds of third-party applications
• Get instructions and links to resources to start building your own Power Platform applications

How to Govern and Scale Apps on
Microsoft Power Platform

Tuesday, March 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET

As a twist on the classic Spiderman saying, with great FLEXIBILITY comes great RESPONSIBILITY. The decentralized application development empowered by low-code tools like the Microsoft Power Platform puts great power to automate and improve workflows and business processes in the hands of citizen developers. It also can create challenges over time as apps need updating, staff turnover occurs, and security policies evolve.

This session is designed for IT managers or technical administrators who want to establish guidelines for adoption and usage of Power Platform across their organization’s tech ecosystem. Industry experts from Encodian will review essential advice for introducing, scaling, and successfully administering Power Platform-based applications, including the following topics:

• Understanding the dos and don’ts of Power Platform management
• Providing confidence to your organization that adequate governance is in place
• Introducing Microsoft’s Center of Excellence (CoE)
• Get practical guidance on next steps

Why Data Integration Matters for Nonprofits

Available on demand

Approaches to technology selection continue to evolve in the nonprofit sector. Over the last 30 years we have seen major trends, from use of mostly independent solutions in the early days of digital transformation, to the rise of more “all-inclusive” technology providers that tried to supply most of an organization’s needs. More recently the trend has swung in another direction. Nonprofits have responded to changing consumer expectations by adopting specialized technology solutions tailored to their specific needs.

While this “best-in-class” approach can help nonprofits better meet supporter expectations and fuel their missions, it can also pose challenges with data integration across different platforms. Join Mike Sanders, SVP, Sales at Omatic Software as he discusses:

• How successful nonprofit organizations leverage best-in-class technology
• Why data integration is the key to having a complete picture of your supporters
• How concepts of integration may have changed since the last time you explored this option (hint: it’s simpler than you may think!)
• What it takes to ensure new technologies can speak to your other systems, creating a huge win for your organization
• When to implement a data strategy as an essential component to deliver on your mission and steward donor dollars

Create Donor Reports Your Leaders Will Love

Available on demand

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® offers many useful options for benchmarking and reporting. This webinar looks beyond, to options to explore when your mission or organizational needs require insights and reporting not covered by “out of the box” Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT tools.

Join experts from Zuri Group as they review advanced options available to you—with a special focus on third-party reporting solutions like Tableau and Power BI. These options can provide some of the most sophisticated reporting and data insights available today—they also require special setup and infrastructure considerations that go beyond report writing.

We’ll explore how to get started with advanced reporting solutions that integrate with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT, including:  

• Bring data from all your sources into one place where it’s accessible, aggregated, and cleaned for best reporting outcomes
• Leverage your data to support data-informed decision-making utilizing Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT reporting with Power BI or Tableau
• Hear from Bowling Green State University about how they’re implementing one such solution to meet their Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT reporting requirements
• Demonstrate how Aqueduct by Zuri Group gives you the ability to merge critical third-party data such as student information, patient data, giving scores, or financial information to provide the full picture to your stakeholders and create innovative and meaningful reports that will engage your stakeholders

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