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Solutions For Foundations

Your foundation has the incredibly important job of providing vital grant funding to deserving nonprofits while demonstrating the highest level of accountability to your donors and stakeholders. Blackbaud's suite of integrated, easy-to-use solutions is tailored to help non profit foundations of all sizes and budgets attract and cultivate more donors, easily track and manage grants, and provide transparency at every level.

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Foundations at a Glance

The Information You Need, When You Need It

When someone chooses to donate their hard-earned money to a cause, they want to be sure that it will be used responsibly. As a foundation, you’re being entrusted to understand the interests of donors and stakeholders, make strategic decisions in distributing funds, and provide timely, accurate information on the status of investments.

Blackbaud can help. Our constituent relationship management (CRM) solutions make it simple for foundations of all sizes to:

  • Sustain strong relationships with the ability to create and send timely, personalized communications
  • Make more informed decisions and instill confidence in stakeholders through speedy, accurate reporting
  • Increase responsiveness by accessing critical information in a matter of minutes instead of days

Attract and Engage Supporters Online

Creating an effective online presence that attracts new audiences and keeps supporters coming back requires assets including an engaging website design, personalized email communications, and self-service online tools.

Blackbaud offers a broad portfolio of interactive solutions that will help your foundation take its first steps forward online or take an existing strategy to the next level. Using Blackbaud NetCommunity and Nonprofit Central, you can even provide donors with instant access to information about nonprofits tailored to address their interests and philanthropic needs.

Track Finances and Investments

As a foundation in today’s philanthropy landscape, you’re under growing scrutiny to provide fiscal transparency at every level. Blackbaud’s financial management solutions can help you make smart strategic decisions, achieve the highest level of transparency, and evaluate the performance of every grant, investment, and fund in real-time. Backed by Blackbaud financial solutions, you can:

  • Evaluate success of investments and allocate earnings and fees to participants in investment pools
  • Instantly verify to donors how gifts are spent and determine how funds are divided among programs
  • Improve reporting accuracy and efficiency by producing FAS117 reports directly from the system, eliminating margin for error from exporting data to spreadsheets
  • Manage applications for grants, monitor how recipients are spending grants, and report on the results

Who We Help

We think our solutions for foundations are great. But don’t take our word for it – hear it from your peers! Learn about the impact of an integrated solution straight from the source through case studies from a wide range of foundations, including:

  • Northwest Lions Foundation saves two weeks per year simply by streamlining the production of reports and another 100 hours a year by eliminating manual reentry of data using The Raiser’s Edge with The Financial Edge
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan gets instant access to the financial information they need – rather than relying on an outside firm - using The Raiser’s Edge with The Financial Edge
  • Angel Foundation leverages The Raiser’s Edge(i) to personalize communications for donors, both online and offline
  • The Collector's Foundation uses eTapestry to launch an integrated website, enabling the foundation to strengthen the visual presence of their website and make updates in minutes instead of weeks

Featured Customer Testimonial

For more than fifty years, Communities Foundation of Texas has helped donors connect their charitable goals with real community needs that touch nearly all aspects of life. Communities Foundation of Texas needed a technology solution to manage its critical processes, from cultivating relationships with donors and charitable organizations to managing hundreds of funds.

CFT selected a combination of foundation software and management services from Blackbaud including The Raiser’s Edge for foundation fundraising and management, and Blackbaud NetCommunity for Internet marketing and communications.

Communicating with a new demographic on an interactive website has increased the Foundation’s ability to grow and accomplish new goals: in fact, the new website launched on May 20, 2009 and on its first day received 8,400 donations to 353 organizations totaling over $4,000,000, shattering previous single-day online giving records.

 
 

Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good. Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, and individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers organizations to increase their impact through software, services, expertise, and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and relationship management, digital marketing, advocacy, accounting, payments, analytics, school management, grant management, corporate social responsibility, and volunteerism. Serving the industry for more than three decades, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com.

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