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Blackbaud NetCommunity
Blackbaud NetCommunity
Blackbaud NetCommunity
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What is Blackbaud NetCommunity?
The Blackbaud NetCommunity online alumni management system helps users to gain a deeper understanding of alumni relationships, execute multichannel engagement strategies, and eliminate tedious back-office tasks.
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What is Blackbaud NetCommunity?
The Blackbaud NetCommunity online alumni management system helps users to gain a deeper understanding of alumni relationships, execute multichannel engagement strategies, and eliminate tedious back-office tasks. Blackbaud NetCommunity provides tools to engage alumni and supporters,…
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What is Blackbaud NetCommunity?
The Blackbaud NetCommunity online alumni management system helps users to gain a deeper understanding of alumni relationships, execute multichannel engagement strategies, and eliminate tedious back-office tasks.
Blackbaud NetCommunity provides tools to engage alumni and supporters, wherever they may be, helping users:
- Connect in person and create memorable alumni engagement events with online alumni management system tools to help foster a personal connection between alumni and a school
- Share the right message to the right constituent with personalized website content that's dynamically customized to alumni
- Make every email count with donor insight and personalization tools to help reach the right audience with the right message
Blackbaud NetCommunity Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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December 12, 2019
Blackbaud NetCommunity helped us raise more funds!
- The secure online donation forms provided a big boost to our online donations
- Ease of importing data into Raiser's Edge was a time saving feature over having to enter the data manually
December 11, 2019
basic but useful
- NC allows us to create multiple fundraising initiatives and reconcile the funds accordingly
- It allows us to quickly set up event pages
- The Ecard solution has had a negative effect when multiple gift card recipients got an email addressing them with someone else's name
- The unsubscribe function precludes constituents from possibly choosing an option to not unsubscribe completely from all of our communication but make a selection of what they want to continue receiving emails about.
July 17, 2018
Solid
- Easily collect online donations
- Analytics help us to better tailor our communications and develop segmentations.
- Increase in alumni participation and dollars raised.
- Increased outreach and engagement with our constituents.
March 03, 2018
NetCommunity - Integration is Key
- It has had a positive impact because 99% of the fundraising dollars that we get from email appeals come from emails sent through NetCommunity.
December 13, 2017
Perspective from a Newbie!
- The company listens to its users, collecting ideas and making improvements. Updates to the software are rolled out several times a year. When something cannot be changed right away, the company gives context and forecasts when the change might be possible.
- It is a very quick system so you are able to view information in a timely fashion without having to worry about customers losing their patience.
December 12, 2017
Blackbaud NetCommunity is not the most user-friendly, however integrates with Blackbaud products
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We were able to purchase a package integrating all types of Blackbaud products which integrate.
- We are able to update our desktop, mobile donation pages which allow us to take donations while having great support available at all times.
- The donation forms and email tools are not very visually appealing and user-friendly so this makes it difficult to implement and in return donors don't have a user-friendly experience.
June 23, 2017
Completely Satisfied
- Initial costs (sticker shock) are always of concern. However, I believe the product pays for itself in the long-term.
- The ROI is significant in that it provides an application that is already "out-of-the-box" for most organizations and their various objectives. Otherwise, an organization is limited in it's options for other solutions (i.e. using third party vendors that charge for application use and maintenance). Whereas, I am responsible for publishing what our organization puts out on the internet and any communications, and Blackbaud is simply hosting the application and is there for support.
April 12, 2017
My co-worker, NetCommunity
- BBNC has allowed us to sell tickets to events and increase our brand awareness instead of having to use a third party vendor to collect ticket sales.
April 06, 2017
My Blackbaud NetCommunity Review
- Being able to see who's opening eblasts helps determine best time to send it out and best practices.
- Ability to see who has made a donation or signed up to an event shows the interest in a specific event.
- Being able to see donations made.
December 15, 2016
NetCommunity for the Non-Developer
- NetCommunity SPARK, our tool for online communications, cut our annual mailing budget by a third if not more. The ability to email instead of mailing saves on postage and printed materials.
- The ability to email tax receipts instead of mail is a return not only on the cost of mailing receipts, it also ensures that donors are getting an immediate tax document which in turn means they have more faith in our professionalism, and in turn they will be more likely to repeat a donation.
- The ability to review and update their own profile information means our users are helping keep our data clean. The amount of mail that we have returned due to changed addresses has decreased by about 10% in the 5 years we've been using this solution.
December 14, 2016
NetCommunity is great for getting your organization noticed
- We normally do not get a lot of donations online so having NetCommunity has not increased that.
- Along with NetCommunity we were able to get Merchant Services and we love that we have the ability to run credit cards on mobile devices. That has increased our credit card sales at events and the time to run those.
December 13, 2016
NetCommunity - Good online presence for us.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Our online giving went from non-existent to being a routine option for us and has been worth it for our office.
October 10, 2016
Blackbaud NetCommunity, a necessity for Raiser's Edge
- Due to Blackbaud NetCommunity (BBNC) limitations, we were required to purchase OLX for mobile-friendly donation widget capability.
- Due to email list limitations, staff time must be utilized to recreate each email 10 times to send to our house list.
- Unlike OLX, BBNC offers automatic integration into Raiser's Edge to track email communications open rates.
June 01, 2016
It was a nightmare...
- We spent entirely too much money on an option that was not well-suited to the organization's needs.
May 24, 2016
NetCommunity - Easy to use
- We have seen an increase in our online giving
- More teams are using online giving now that creating their pages is easy
March 18, 2016
Blackbaud Netcommunity is a NET gain in my opion
- Almost ALL of our transactions occur on line, so our mailing costs on renewals have gone down, and with an increase in "good" experiences on line for our end users, they become more engaged with us and in turn remain loyal supporters.
February 26, 2016
NetCommunity - Friend or Foe?
- At the time it was the only product available that would provide us with a way to send newsletters to our Raisers Edge Constituents.
- The amount of administration time to upgrade has been a big pain for downtime and time lost with an on staff engineer.
- Currently it is the only product we can use to properly intake applications for grants into our GrantEdge program.
January 06, 2016
Unbeatable Integration
- We have been using BBNC as long as I've been in my position, but it makes email very easy to manage. It may be a bit clunky, but the traceability, levels of security, merge fields, lists that seamlessly integrate with dynamic queries in the database are amazingly good. I rely on them so heavily. Otherwise, we would be pulling CSV files on a daily basis for all emails.
- BBNC provides a single portal for parents, students, and alumni to access resources behind a login. We are able to securely post information and manage users.
December 16, 2014
NetCommunity is a nice product, but Online Express works better for our organization.
- IT was negative when parts of it were frustrating for both the users and our donors.
December 15, 2014
An okay product, good for some use cases, just didn't fit our needs.
- Just neutral. NetCommunity has some great features, it just wasn't a good fit for our organization. Switching away from NC has led our team to spend more time on some tasks, less time on others. The difference is more in our focus
- We've been able to increase our average email open rate from 9-10% to about 15% since switching away from Net Community. Much of the difference is our email strategy, not the software itself, but NetCommunity made it difficult for us to implement the strategies which we now use.
October 22, 2013
Raiser's Edge User? NetCommunity is a MUST!
- Less staff cost on importing web data into The Raiser's Edge as it is now integrated from Blackbaud NetCommunity.
- Email marketing efforts are more targeted and now have a higher response rate. This equates to increased fundraising dollars.
- Our advancement and alumni communities are branded like our entire website. This provides a seamless user experience to our constituents and makes our internal departments appear much more integrated. This ultimately builds consumer confidence in our brand.
- A/B split testing has allowed us to further tailor content that is preferred by our audience. This targeting allows us to be more successful in gaining conversions, event registrations, etc.