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How to Use Data to Reduce Your Direct Mail Marketing Costs

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With the rise of mailing costs coupled with worldwide fundraising competition for every cent, your nonprofit organization can’t afford to guess when it comes to your fundraising program’s direct mail expenses. When you allow data to guide your direct mail strategy, your organization can save time and money. Direct mail?

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Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

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Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). While there are standard reports built in Raiser’s Edge, if you need to create custom and specialized reports, you would have previously had to use Crystal Reports for Blackbaud. trillion to $15.4

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

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The process required creating several Advanced Lists in Blackbaud SIS/LMS that detailed course lists and student enrollment and exporting them as a.csv file and importing them into my script. This was a new API for Blackbaud, so even they were still figuring out all the applications.* You can do it, too!

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The 10 Most Popular sgENGAGE Articles Published in 2021

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be by Kayla Barnes, Blackbaud. American Rescue Plan Act: Impact on Nonprofits and Other Social Good Organizations by Sally Ehrenfried, Blackbaud. 6 Creative Data-Driven Ways to Fundraise During Nurses Week 2021 by Tanya Cole, Blackbaud. Interested in contributing to sgENGAGE in 2022?

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Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You

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Tip: Using the Giving Analysis for Appeals report in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a great first step to analyzing your historical data. Tip: If using Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, be sure to apply the appropriate appeal records and package codes to your constituent lists for good record keeping.

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10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits

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According to the 2019 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report , online giving grew 6.8% per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report. 10) Include a phone number and mailing address. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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How to Improve On-Time Tuition Payments

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The Blackbaud Tuition Management Difference Blackbaud Tuition Management is a fully integrated billing solution for processing tuition and fee payments. Blackbaud doesn’t charge a traditional late fee. Using a third party to handle the follow-up saves the school time internally and conveys the seriousness of the late payment.

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