Better together: Blackbaud & Almabase partner to streamline event management for Healthcare Foundations

Addressing key challenges Healthcare Foundations face in managing events

Marquee events like galas, auctions, and grateful patient gatherings are opportunities to inspire. Yet too often, the tools in use make this work harder, not easier.  

Healthcare foundations are riddled with rigid tools that fail to handle their needs; custom ticketing workflows aren’t supported, registration pages take days to set-up, and managing communications takes creating and moving multiple lists for invitations, follow-ups and payment reminders. Further, bidding for auctions are either managed on disconnected third-party tools or on clipboards, while not connected with their payment systems. (Blackbaud Merchant Services).

Guests too are left uninspired with clunky forms, long-queues at check-ins, and making payments after they’ve won the bid in an auction.

Healthcare foundations feel boxed-In due to vendors that don’t inspire trust or integrate with their Blackbaud systems

Healthcare foundations and hospitals using Blackbaud platforms often review many third-party tools to address their unique event and auction needs. However, these tools often lack effective integration with core systems like Raiser’s Edge NXT, Blackbaud CRM, and payment processors such as Blackbaud Merchant Services, resulting in inefficient processes.

Many vendors also refuse to sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) making them unsuitable under HIPAA regulations and undermining trust.

The Blackbaud–Almabase Partnership: Putting healthcare fundraisers and event managers in control

Regaining control of your Healthcare missions

With this strategic partnership between Almabase and Blackbaud, healthcare foundations finally have both efficiency and trust in one platform. They can host events with confidence, deliver simple and smooth experiences, and maintain compliance by proactively separating patient health information and fundraising data.

Most importantly, this partnership puts healthcare foundations back in control of their mission—so they can spend less time fighting inefficiencies and more time building relationships that change lives.

An event management platform that understand their unique needs

Together, Almabase and Blackbaud deliver a solution designed for the real challenges of healthcare fundraising. Foundations can easily manage ticketing, payments, guest lists, and even large-scale events like galas and auctions, all while staying fully connected to Raiser’s Edge NXT and Blackbaud CRM. Data flows automatically—keeping lists in sync, tracking guest activity, updating donor records, and saving teams from hours of manual work. This ensures fundraisers can focus more on donors and less on processes.

Key highlights of the platform:

• Integrated, multi-channel marketing automation: Avoid jumping tools, creating lists, and burying yourself in sheets.  Automate the entire process - pull your marketing lists from Raiser’s edge NXT, and use smart segments to automate communications for follow-ups, pending payments, or those checked-in.‍
• A powerful no-code platform for a flexible and branded set-up: Manage flexible ticketing, seating, sponsor packages, and auctions without spreadsheets, and automate receipting - configurable to your needs, and integrated with Raiser’s Edge NXT and Blackbaud CRM‍
• TrueSync with Raiser’s Edge NXT and a native BBCRM integration: Industry’s true bi-directional integration with Blackbaud CRM and Raiser’s Edge NXT to ensure no time is lost moving data manually. Configure sync rules flexibly to your needs while keeping your database clean and structured.‍
• Manage guests better during the event: Ensure a seamless experience at the event—no queues or paper check-ins, or worries about seating management, payments, and in-person registrations.‍
• Real-time guest tracking: Realtime dashboard tracking payments, tickets, meal preferences and any guest-activity to plan better.‍
• Simplify how you approve events requested by supporters: Allow families, volunteers and other supporters to quickly request an event. Streamline the process of verifying and approving that request while eliminating manual work, and ensuring privacy.

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Healthcare Foundations can now run events without worrying about HIPAA compliance

Almabase also helps foundations separate sensitive patient data from fundraising & engagement data, ensuring donor engagement efforts stay secure and compliant. This gives healthcare fundraisers and event managers confidence that they are protecting what matters most while still achieving their goals.