| Blackbaud Launches Nonprofit Central for Community Foundations |
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| Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:46 | ||||||||
“With Blackbaud Nonprofit Central, organizations can highlight their mission and specific needs, share program outcomes, and easily apply for grants online,” said Lou Attanasi, Blackbaud's senior vice president of products “These days, donors have an unprecedented amount of choices when researching worthy causes, and they are becoming more engaged in the giving process. With Nonprofit Central, community foundations can offer comparative information about organizations making it easier for donors to make informed decisions and recommend grants.” Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT) was founded in 1953. Since then, it has made more than $1 billion in grants and has grown to become one of the largest community foundations in the nation. Today with Nonprofit Central, CFT will launch a site called DonorBridge allowing donors to learn about nonprofits in need and recommend specific nonprofits for grants from donor advised funds. CFT partnered with The Dallas Foundation and Center for Nonprofit Management to make DonorBridge a community-wide initiative. Starting today, credit card gifts made by anyone through DonorBridge to qualified nonprofits will be matched dollar-for-dollar while funds last. “By making this valuable resource available to our many constituents, which includes nonprofits, donors, fund advisors, and board members, we have been able to increase both the breadth and depth of philanthropy as well as better position our organization as a leading philanthropic partner in our community,” said Paula Peters, CFT’s senior director of community outreach. “DonorBridge will increase the scale and impact of giving by making mutual connections between nonprofit organizations, donors and supporters.” Community Foundations can use Blackbaud Nonprofit Central to: Empower donors to make smart funding decisions with guidance while maintaining independence Select what information is accessible to the general public on their websites, and highlight specific nonprofits Fulfill donor matching requests based on donor interests Complement internal grant making reviews - annual budget, application basics, and evaluations Access nonprofit profiles 24/7 and share data with other grant makers Blackbaud’s solution for community foundations is the industry’s most comprehensive and tightly integrated solution for foundations. Comprised of The Financial Edge™ for financial management, The Raiser’s Edge® for donor management, Blackbaud NetCommunity for website management, and now Nonprofit Central online database, the solution also incorporates Fusion Labs’ GrantedGE for grant management. More than 60 community foundations use components of, or the complete solution. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com/communityfoundations. About Blackbaud Blackbaud is the leading global provider of software and services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, enabling them to improve operational efficiency, build strong relationships, and raise more money to support their missions. Approximately 22,000 organizations — including University of Arizona Foundation, American Red Cross, Cancer Research UK, The Taft School,Lincoln Center, InTouch Ministries, Tulsa Community Foundation, Ursinus College,Earthjustice, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the WGBH Educational Foundation — use one or more Blackbaud products and services for fundraising, constituent relationship management, financial management, website management, direct marketing, education administration, ticketing, business intelligence, prospect research, consulting, and analytics. Since 1981, Blackbaud’s sole focus and expertise has been partnering with nonprofits and providing them the solutions they need to make a difference in their local communities and worldwide. Headquartered in the United States, Blackbaud also has operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com | ||||||||
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About the Author: Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction. She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership. As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994. Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm |
