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To improve and expand our customers’ learning experience, Blackbaud is excited to announce the launch of BlackbaudU Campus, a new learning management system for our Blackbaud University training courses.

Blackbaud has launched a highly anticipated new eBook, the Status of UK Fundraising Report 2021. Featuring the views of over 1,000 U.K. nonprofit professionals, the fourth edition of this annual report is a unique benchmarking tool for the social good sector.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has named Blackbaud a finalist in the 22nd Annual Citizens Awards, a long-standing program that honors businesses for the impact they make in communities around the world.

Throughout the month of October, we will celebrate Black History Month, UK, as a global company. We will do this with a series of employee-led activities, including a special guest speaker, participation in charitable giving opportunities, open forum dialogues related to the evolution of Black History in the UK and more.

The annual Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report 2020 includes insight into online giving trends based on 2020 data, as well as our predictions of which trends are most likely to continue throughout this year and beyond.

As our products and our company evolve, so does our approach to communicating about innovation to our customers. The Blackbaud Product Update Briefings is a semi-annual celebration of technology innovation designed to share more about the innovative cloud solutions that impact your work and support your mission.

September 15 marks the kick-off of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and Blackbaud is excited to be a part of this month-long celebration.

With deepest concern and sympathy for those affected by Hurricane Ida, we would like to express our appreciation for the strength, compassion, and preparedness of our social good customers, partners, and organizations who are providing aid.

The world has changed immensely in the last year-and-a-half, and Blackbaud is changing with it. We’ve implemented a new workforce strategy to provide more flexibility and freedom of choice to our employees, and we are no longer requiring employees to be tied to a specific geographic location. In addition to this new strategy, Blackbaud has focused on supporting our employees through the challenges we’ve all recently faced.

Blackbaud is thrilled to be featured in Microsoft’s #BuildFor2030 campaign as a company that is accelerating nonprofit missions and impact, and playing an active role in supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

With deepest concern and sympathy for those affected by the wildfires burning in California, Oregon, and Canada, we would like to express our appreciation for the strength, compassion, and preparedness of our social good customers, partners, and organizations who are providing aid.

Leading institutions, including Butler University, Concordia College and Saint Louis University have recently selected Blackbaud Guided Fundraising to help support and optimize their annual giving programs, and many others have already demonstrated success.

The new Retention Toolkit: Your Ultimate Guide for Building Lasting Support provides an outline for retaining new donors and growing their value. This piece is the latest release in the Toolkit Series from the Blackbaud Institute, which brings together leading-edge research and strategic insight to accelerate the impact of the social good community.

Blackbaud employees in the UK volunteered their skills and time when they teamed up with Employee Volunteering last month. Teams of employees were matched with two charities, CPotential and Visibility Scotland.

While GivingTuesday isn't until November, a lot of planning is required to create a successful giving campaign. Blackbaud has launched a GivingTuesday Toolkit to ensure our customers have the resources they need to amplify their impact and reach their goals faster.

Blackbaud is delighted to announce the newest members of the Social Good Startup Program in its July 2021 cohort.

The Food Bank Summit will take place as a virtual event July 21–23. Speakers from eight different food banks from across North America will host six sessions covering a variety of top-of-mind topics, including donor retention, virtual events, virtual food drives, digital engagement, data-driven fundraising and much more.

Last weekend, 120 veterans and active military members took to the sea in the Charleston Ocean Racing Association (CORA) Inaugural Military Salute Regatta, presented by Blackbaud. CORA organized the event, in partnership with Veterans on Deck, to engage local veterans and members of the armed forces, and to celebrate and honor their service.

June marks a time when people across the world celebrate PRIDE month—a time to recognize the change agents who are pushing for equal rights for the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's a look back at how Blackbaud celebrated PRIDE.

bbcon 2021 Virtual, the tech conference for a better world, will take place Oct. 13-15, and attendance will be free again this year. Today, Blackbaud released its session lineup for the conference.