Overview
What is Blackbaud Grantmaking?
Blackbaud Grantmaking (formally GIFTS Online) is part of Blackbaud’s extensive portfolio of software, services, data intelligence and expertise that powers social good. Blackbaud Grantmaking delivers grantmaking capabilities configured to meet the user's needs, and to improve efficiency with personalized online…
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Blackbaud Grantmaking Review 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking is a comprehensive grants processing tool I would recommend to any nonprofit accountable for more than 100 grants annually.
Blackbaud Grantmaking B+
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Tracking Philanthropy in a sundowning Foundation
Blackbaud Grantmaking - very functional, but not integrated
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What is Blackbaud Grantmaking?
Blackbaud Grantmaking (formally GIFTS Online) is part of Blackbaud’s extensive portfolio of software, services, data intelligence and expertise that powers social good. Blackbaud Grantmaking delivers grantmaking capabilities configured to meet the user's needs, and to improve efficiency with…
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What is Blackbaud Grantmaking?
Blackbaud Grantmaking Features
- Supported: Configurable to meet your workflow
- Supported: Dashboards featuring real-time data
- Supported: Integrated tools for finance, payments and reporting
- Supported: Outcomes measurement capabilities
- Supported: Open API to connect with your other essential software solutions
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | All countries |
Supported Languages | English (US), English (British), Welsh, Spanish, French, Portuguese |
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(1-5 of 5)- Improves Efficiency
- Improves Data Integrity
- Ease of use
- Reporting can be a little clunky when you're building advanced or highly customized reports
- Would like to be able to automate queries
- Would like to have "branching" ability on applications
- Reduced administration time on grantmaking
- System paid for itself in first year staff savings during the first year of usage
- Continue to generate positive ROI
Foundation
Corporate Social Responsibility
CRA
Marketing
- Foundation Grant Making
- Bank Sponsorship
- CRA compliance with Service & Investment portions of examines
- 360 reporting with AP
- Sponsorship Event Fulfillment
- Complex CRA Reporting
- Business Development Reporting
- Leverage API for accounts payable system
- Leverage API to link with salesforce and others sales platforms
- Central Repository for all grants
- Seamless documentation and information sharing between program officers and grantees
- Simplifies/Streamlines the grants administration processes offering paperless digital grant information that program officers can access ANYWHERE/ANYTIME on a PC, tablet or mobile device.
- Narrative, Budget Reports and payments
- Personalize dashboards for each user by customizing the system to meet the unique needs of each user
- Engaging cross disciplines and teamwork throughout the organization
- Wire transfer grant payments from portal
- Emailing grantees reminders for reports due
My BB Grantmaking Truth!
- We receive 90% of our proposal information from the online portal
- We run 95% of our grant letters, grant agreements, and award letters directly from Blackbaud
- Nearly 100% of our grant data is stored in GIFTS/Blackbaud Grantmaking
- Very easy to pull reports using GIFTS / Black Grantmaking
- We have been able to email all our grantees
- Our accountant has been able to create pie charts for board meetings
- Start accepting final reports
- Start accepting docusigned grant agreements
Tracking Philanthropy in a sundowning Foundation
- Blackbaud Grantmaking is great for streaming an electronic database of files and records as they relate to our charitable giving.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking allows me to access my database from everywhere and anywhere I am.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking helps me track 30 years of Philanthropic Giving in one cohesive platform which is accessible to me and to all the users.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking allows us to track the cross generational grantmaking of many family members
- I would love it if there were live Chats for when I run into problems
- I would love to have an instant chat function when approaching the help desk
- Blackbaud Grantmaking allows me to keep my bosses and supervisors well apprised of our grant making in a timely and effective manner. That overall improves our 'business' objectives
- We use the product to track grantmaking across Canada, the United States and Israel
- We use the product to host an electronic record-keeping - filing cabinet for the organization
- We use the platform to be able to access our grantmaking information remotely from our mobile devices
- I use the platform to connect my colleagues from North America and Israel on a like-minded platform
- I can access and evaluate the status of a grantee on all the watch lists and websites which track a charity's status (Guidestar and the CRA website)
- I use the platform as an electronic filing cabinet!
- I hope that with improved mobile device uses - I can seamlessly use the platform with my mobile device and at home on my laptop
- I hope that the report features are more user friendly and that I no longer need to call the help desk for report writing assistance
- Product Features
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Our foundation's program officers find the Blackbaud Grantmaking customizable dashboards very useful in focusing on the grants under their portfolio and filtering out other grants.
- Our foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking document management tools to create large PDFs for use in Board of Directors meetings so that the meetings are paperless and the members use only their iPads.
- Our foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking charting tools to create informative reports using the data reported to us by our grantees.
- It would be great if Blackbaud Grantmaking could seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Outlook so that contacts, email correspondence and calendar items are all updated with the same data and therefore eliminate the need for duplicate entry. For example, a grant requirement due date would automatically be added to the associated user's calendar.
- It would be great if Blackbaud Grantmaking could seamlessly integrate with the foundation's accounting software, Quickbooks. Currently, we have to make entries into Blackbaud Grantmaking and then duplicate those entries into the accounting software.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking is also missing functionality when it comes to online applications related to requests that are already in Blackbaud Grantmaking. For instance, our foundation creates a request in Blackbaud Grantmaking before we actually receive an application from the grantee. We assign a status of "Anticipated" to those requests and the program officers often record activities (site visits, meetings, phone calls) and attach documents (emails, general info) to the request before inviting an application from the grantee. When the grantee eventually submits an application, Blackbaud Grantmaking doesn't allow us to attach the application to the existing request and instead creates a new requests. We then are forced to manually transfer and/or recreate all the activities and documents from the existing request to the new request. Then we delete the existing request. This missing functionality creates extra work for me.
Blackbaud Grantmaking is less appropriate if a foundation is looking for a "foundation management" system vs a grants management system only.
- Nothing comes to mind.
- good done great and foundant
- Grants Management
- Program Development
- Blackbaud Grantmaking allows us to have all the grant-related information in one online resource accessible through the internet to all staff no matter where they are located.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking has allowed us to have a 90% paperless process. Community organizations apply and report to us through online forms and we use the system to create electronic meeting materials. We still issue paper checks.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking's dashboard feature allows us to create personalized dashboards for each user. The personalized dashboards allow users to focus on the grants assigned to them and not be confused or distracted by other unnecessary data.
- We use the system for the purposes it was designed.
- In the future, our organization could add the Budget and A/P features to streamline the process even more and move to electronic payments.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Prior to the implementation process, we went through an internal data review process and cleaned up any issues.
- Blackbaud then copied the data from our existing Blackbaud Grantmaking system and used it to develop the new Blackbaud Grantmaking Online system for us. That part of the process took about 10 days and during that time, we could refer to data in the old system, but we couldn't make any changes. This meant that we had to keep manual records of changes we needed to make once the new system was implemented.
- Once the new system was implemented, the specialist worked with me on a weekly basis to train me on new features and to help troubleshoot an issues. There was no limit on the number of training sessions and I worked with her weekly until I felt confident to go it alone.
- In the first few weeks of working with the new system, there were some missing documents that should have been included as part of the data migration. After contacting my implementation specialist, she was able to get that resolved very quickly.
- Downtime during data migration can be frustrating, but it's a necessary part of the process and you have to just wait it out.
- There were some missing records immediately after implementation, but Blackbaud was able to resolve that issue quickly. Those missing documents did make me a little less confident in the rest of the data which led me to do a lot more random record checks than I had planned. Fortunately, those random checks didn't turn up any other issues and helped restore my trust in the data.
- It's easy to accept online applications and have grant records automatically created from the application.
- It's easy to manage a grant record in the system from application to approval to payment and reporting.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking makes it easy to manage the multitude of documents related to each grant record or organization record.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking's personalized dashboards make it easy for individual staff members to focus on their assigned grants without having to sort through other unrelated records.
- Customizing and formatting Blackbaud Grantmaking's standard and ad hoc reports is not easy. I typically avoid using the system's reports and instead export my data to Excel and manipulate and format the data manually.
- Blackbaud Grantmaking does not allow users to attach a grant application to an existing grant request in the system. We are forced to use a work around which includes manually moving documents and recreating coding data.
- Casual users of the system find the advanced search feature very complex and not user friendly.