Blackbaud announces transformation in church technology landscape

After decades serving the faith community, Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, announced the Cloud Solution for Faith Communities with the introduction of Blackbaud Church Management™. With this move, Blackbaud now provides integrated, end-to-end cloud capabilities that enable churches to digitally transform their day-to-day operations through a single, connected experience. The announcement was made in conjunction with Blackbaud’s participation in the Church Network Annual Conference, currently underway in New Orleans.

Blackbaud Church Management at a Glance

Thousands of organizations in the faith community, including churches, currently benefit from Blackbaud’s capabilities. The company’s newest capability set, Blackbaud Church Management, offers the ability to track gifts and tithing, assimilate new members, directly communicate with their congregations via multi-channel communication, enable members to make online and mobile contributions, manage small groups and volunteers, implement secure child check-in, conduct background checks, provide bulk tax statements, manage facilities, and more. Churches can also add other Blackbaud capabilities from the new Cloud Solution for Faith Communities as their needs scale—all through one integrated experience, which is powered by Blackbaud SKY®, Blackbaud’s platform for social good cloud innovation.

Blackbaud’s Cloud Solution for Faith Communities, which includes church management, fundraising and relationship management, financial management, marketing, and analytics, is built to enable churches to drive meaningful relationships, a connected church and effective ministry. Key outcomes include enabling churches to:

• Strengthen relationships with congregations through automated workflows, increase engagement with small groups and events, and gain insight with unmatched analytics and reporting
• Connect and better serve their staff, volunteers, and congregants with one holistic system
• Care for their congregation with safe check-in, smooth registration and more
• Save time and work more effectively with specialized capabilities for each church’s ministries
• Manage and demonstrate financial accountability while securely managing multiple channels to make giving, pledging and dues simple for congregations