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Blackbaud kills off Common Ground

Robert Weiner

Yesterday the news was that Blackbaud had laid off 50 employees it acquired when it bought Convio in May. Today the news is that Blackbaud is killing off Common Ground , one of the two donor management products (aka CRMs or Constituent Relationship Management systems) that they acquired from Convio.

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Blackbaud Partners for Your Nonprofit: 10 Top Picks

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Blackbaud is a leader in the nonprofit technology space because of the scope and versatility of its offerings. The Blackbaud nonprofit software ecosystem has a wide range of solutions that can help nearly any nonprofit handle its online fundraising, marketing, and data management needs. What are Blackbaud Partners?

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Exploring the Reporting Advantages of Salesforce Over Blackbaud CRM (BBCRM)

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Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce. If you’ve just migrated from Blackbaud onto Salesforce, you’ve made the right choice, and we’re here to help ease your transition. Superior Reporting Flexibility. a relational DB, like BBCRM).

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Lots of people have already weighed in on Blackbaud’s purchase of Convio (two of my favorites: [link] and [link] ). Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. My main questions are about product strategies.

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Blackbaud kills Common Ground: So What?

Robert Weiner

According to the Q&A that Idealware conducted with Blackbaud , approximately 400 nonprofits are using Common Ground. Here are some reasons that I’ve been thinking and hearing about: Nonprofits that were previously looking at Luminate are nervous about placing a bet on Blackbaud’s commitment to the Salesforce platform. That’s about.026

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records. Consider the level of database training the user has. Be sure you’ve properly documented how to inactivate access to the database for staff members who leave the organization, too. Likely no.

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Jay Love leaving Blackbaud

Robert Weiner

Jay Love, the founder and CEO of eTapestry (and before that, of Master Software), is leaving Blackbaud to become CEO of Social Solutions: [link]. I spoke with Jay yesterday and he says that Blackbaud is committed to etapestry and will continue to invest in the product. Tags: Donor Databases. Time will tell.

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