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Blackbaud CRM

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What is Blackbaud CRM?

Designed for large, complex organizations as well as federated and international nonprofits.

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What is Blackbaud CRM?

Designed for large, complex organizations as well as federated and international nonprofits.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Blackbaud CRM?

Blackbaud CRM for enterprise-scale Nonprofits, Higher Education, and Healthcare organizations combines data management and automation with the ability to scale, adapt, and integrate across applications to retain and grow supporter value​. Its out-of-the-box capabilities enable enterprise-level advancement organizations to work more effectively with large, multidimensional datasets, including:

  • A holistic view of constituents to manage interactions with them based on whether they are Individuals, Households, Groups, or Corporations and maintain visibility into corporate hierarchy. 
  • Sophisticated donor management capabilities such as Stewardship Plans, Fund Management, Recognition Programs, Naming Opportunities, and Donor Challenges to increase donor engagement.
  • Market segmentation to support complex multi-channel outreach programs.
  • Research and Analytics powered by Blackbaud’s native prospect research tool, ResearchPoint, including data modeling and benchmarking.
  • Mobile and web access to empower on the go fundraisers with constituent information through their mobile devices.
  • Direct data access to cloud environments via read-only, read-write, and self-service developer portal to speed development cycle while maintaining control and optimizing security and compliance.
Blackbaud CRM is also extendible and customizable, with a software development kit, and tools like Page Designer that can be used to modify pages and forms without technical knowledge.

Blackbaud CRM Features

  • Supported: A single source of truth with a holistic view of constituents whether they are Individuals, Households, Groups, or Corporations
  • Supported: Moves management and stewardship capabilities to expand and nurture major donors
  • Supported: Segmentation support for multi-channel campaigns
  • Supported: Planned Giving, Matching Gift Management, and Online Giving to support specialized fundraising needs
  • Supported: Automated receipting and acknowledgement, end-to-end credit card processing and robust accounting functionality streamline gift and revenue management
  • Supported: Ability to tap into Blackbaud's philanthropic data set and data modeling
  • Supported: Integration with business intelligence and data analytics solutions.
  • Supported: Microsoft integrations to automate key visualizations, workflows and build low-code/no-code apps
  • Supported: Open, industry-standard REST APIs to extend and customize the core CRM solution.
  • Supported: Wide selection of partner apps in Blackbaud Marketplace.
  • Supported: Extensible revenue data model to manage process of tracking, crediting and recognizing donors based on the gifts they make
  • Supported: Embedded data hygiene management including duplication management and address validation

Blackbaud CRM Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal - US, Canada, EMEA, Asia-Pacific

Frequently Asked Questions

Designed for large, complex organizations as well as federated and international nonprofits.

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Bloomerang, and Ellucian CRM Advance are common alternatives for Blackbaud CRM.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of Blackbaud CRM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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BB e-CRM - Investigated, selected, installed and rewarded!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 04, 2024
AW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud CRM
7 years of experience
I think scale is the largest consideration. When you are trying to manipulate and work with a 600K of records or more, a smaller system with less flexibility and capability will not function. BBCRM is fully integrated and fairly consistent in it's approach. Unlike some systems that you might customize with different modules or apps this is a complete system. You may not use all of it at the start, but it's potential is always there. We are continuing to turn on new modules and functions, already in the system, and finding new value with existing data. We do not have buy extra "apps" or modules to get things done.

Blackbaud

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 16, 2024
TM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud CRM
5 years of experience
It is very well suited as a CRM, but not as well set up to manage volunteers. I know our company has had to do some workarounds. I manage volunteers on another platform.

Review from fundraising professional

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 05, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud CRM
4 years of experience
It works well enough for fundraising purposes and donor tracking. I think it would be less appropriate for instances or industries where you don't need so many data points on someone. You are able to attach a lot of information to a record so if you don't need that info (simply need contact info for example) you might want a simpler system.

Adequate but not Exceptional

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 27, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud CRM
10 years of experience
Blackbaud is a fairly straightforward CRM, easy to train and navigate, which allows new users to jump in quickly and begin searching or pulling information from it. It's critical that standards and uniformity are set by an organization from the beginning, though. This is what makes the retrieved information useful. Additionally, making global changes is a clunky, difficult process in Blackbaud, so it's better to define all terms and parameters from the start than try to adjust it later.

The Higher Education Standard

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 04, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud CRM
4 years of experience
Blackbaud is very comprehensive. Sometimes too comprehensive. It works great in the space of Donor Profiles and Major Gift fundraising. The reporting tools are almost overwhelming and can struggle with performance.
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