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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

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The bbcon 2023 agenda is full of great sessions for finance professionals serving nonprofits, schools, foundations, healthcare, and cultural organizations, from creating better systems to extending what you currently do with Blackbaud’s fund accounting software, Financial Edge NXT. Let the Machines Work so the People Can Think!:

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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. Maximize Current Tools.

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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. million constituents.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. RAWA Fund, for instance, has used grantee self-assessment based on narrative, story-telling methodologies, as a basis for evaluation.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: Barbara Newhouse, The Children’s Heart Foundation

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Today’s Q&A is with Barbara Newhouse, CEO of The Children’s Heart Foundation , where she is using her experience and lessons learned to create strengths from organizational challenges and rebuild a brand that staff, board, supporters, and volunteers can trust. A: This makes me laugh. A: Wow, this is a tough one.

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Blackbaud Grantmaking: Examining the Past, the Present, and the Future

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You probably also know that the world of philanthropy is changing rapidly, and your software needs to keep up with the new challenges and opportunities that arise. Over the past 30 years, Blackbaud Grantmaking has been serving foundations and nonprofit grantmakers with software that continues to evolve with you.

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3 Major Higher Ed Takeaways from bbcon 2020 Virtual

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It’s no secret that the world is going through significant change and fundraising best practices are not exempt from that. Mastering change management to usher in digital transformation . Change management is always an important topic at bbcon as we strive to help our customers implement successful solutions on their campus.

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