Almabase offers the industry's best native integration with Blackbaud CRM, ensuring seamless event and gift data sync with flexible rules, real-time updates, and automated data mapping—saving you countless hours.
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At Almabase, our mission is to empower institutions with cutting-edge tools to drive alumni engagement and fundraising success. In 2022, we partnered with Blackbaud to redefine how institutions approach digital engagement and fundraising.
This collaboration led to the industry’s only seamless data sync between Almabase and Raiser’s Edge NXT—TrueSync, solving the data disconnect between systems that don’t communicate with one another, preventing issues like duplicate records and missed opportunities. TrueSync is a game-changer, setting a new standard for data integration in the advancement industry.
Now, we’re thrilled to take this mission further.
We’re proud to announce Almabase’s native integration with Blackbaud CRM (BBCRM). This integration reinforces our commitment to creating unified, intelligent systems that simplify data management, save you time, and help you focus on smarter alumni engagement and fundraising strategies.
Blackbaud CRM is a comprehensive fundraising solution built for enterprise-scale nonprofits and higher education institutions managing large-scale campaigns. As the world’s leading fundraising CRM, it offers a unified platform for managing complex programs and provides a holistic view of constituents, events, volunteers, memberships, and donor relationships.
Advancement teams often struggle with disconnected systems and siloed data, leading to inefficiencies, lost time, and missed opportunities. Existing solutions often rely on third-party connectors, which can add unnecessary cost and complexity to your tech stack. Moreover, these patchwork integrations often lack the real-time, bidirectional data sync needed to maintain a unified view.
With Almabase’s native integration with Blackbaud CRM, institutions now have a single source of truth for all their engagement and fundraising data.
This integration ensures seamless workflows, enhances decision-making, and enables advancement teams to focus on what matters most—building meaningful connections with alumni and donors.
The native integration enables seamless data sync, ensuring consistency across both platforms. The integration keeps your databases aligned and up-to-date, whether it's constituent details, education and employment information, gift records, or event data.
Key features include:
• Automated data mapping: Transactions automatically sync to the correct constituent, fund, and payment method, eliminating manual entry and reconciliation efforts.
• Flexible sync rules: Institutions can customize data sync criteria, such as approval workflows and address verification, giving them full control over data management.
• Real-time tracking: Monitor key activities like registrations, gifts, and engagement metrics, empowering smarter, data-driven decisions.
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• Increased efficiency: Save hours of manual work with automated data transfers and reconciliation. You can now focus on strategic priorities like personalized outreach and campaign planning.
• Improved data accuracy: Ensure data integrity with real-time sync and eliminate duplicate records and inconsistencies.
• Enhanced decision-making: See all your alumni and donor information in one place, giving you a clear picture to create smarter engagement strategies.
• Smarter fundraising strategies: Leverage clean, reliable, and real-time data to build targeted campaigns that resonate with your constituents and drive higher participation and giving outcomes.
"At Almabase, we’ve always believed that technology should make life easier for advancement professionals, not harder. With this integration, we’re helping institutions move past the challenges of disconnected systems and focus on what really matters—building meaningful connections with their alumni and donors. I’m truly excited about this integration and the opportunities it creates for Blackbaud CRM customers." - Kalyan Varma, Co-founder & CEO, Almabase.
This integration is a testament to our ongoing commitment to empowering institutions with smarter, more efficient tools for engagement and fundraising. By aligning Almabase's modern platform with Blackbaud's industry-leading CRM, we're delivering a best-in-class solution that helps advancement teams break down silos, boost impact, and drive lasting change.
Looking ahead, we're excited to continue enhancing this integration with additional features and functionality. Upcoming updates will enhance data accuracy, reporting, and insights, helping you reach your goals even faster.
Interested in learning how this integration can help your institution? Get in touch with us today.
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For advancement teams, managing data isn't just about storing information—it's about harnessing it to drive meaningful alumni engagement and fundraising impact. Cohesive data workflows are crucial for seamless operations; many teams at universities and colleges struggle with fragmented systems, leading to inefficient manual work, inconsistent data, costly errors, and missed growth opportunities.
Unlocking growth starts with building efficient processes that streamline data flow across all platforms. By bringing all engagement and fundraising data into a single, cohesive view within your donor management platform, advancement teams can make data-driven decisions, reduce manual tasks, and make it a single source of truth.
In a bold step towards revolutionizing alumni engagement and fundraising, Almabase has launched TrueSync, a native integration with Blackbaud platforms like Raiser's Edge NXT. This update solves the data disconnect between systems that don't talk to one another, leading to duplicate records and missed opportunities. It's a game-changer that sets a new standard for data integration in the advancement industry.
”To be honest, the word integration has been abused by several software companies. Once you look beyond the marketing, you realize that the integration is exporting excel sheets and importing into your donor management platform. This is the reason we set out to create a truly seamless experience with TrueSync,” said Kalyan Varma, Co-founder and CEO of Almabase.
"Customers want their advancement donor management platform to be a single source of truth and don’t want to go through complex processes to make that happen. This allows them to be data-driven, save time, and grow their fundraising outcomes. TrueSync delivers on this promise.”
While many platforms claim to offer seamless integrations with Raiser's Edge NXT, these integrations often rely on third-party connectors, resulting in a patchwork of data flows that are prone to delays, errors, and duplicate data. These misleading promises can leave advancement teams in a frustrating cycle of constantly cleaning up messy data and manually transferring data across systems.
TrueSync is a direct native integration across Almabase and Raiser's Edge NXT. This approach ensures bi-directional syncing of data without relying on third-party connectors, reducing the risk of errors, duplication, or data silos. Advancement teams can now benefit from a real-time flow of information, enabling more informed decision-making and improved engagement strategies.
Key benefits of TrueSync include:
The launch of TrueSync reflects Almabase's ongoing commitment to innovation in the advancement sector. By providing a more streamlined, cost-effective solution, TrueSync enables teams at universities, colleges, and nonprofits to focus their resources on strategic goals rather than troubleshooting data integration issues.
“TrueSync will significantly improve how institutions manage their data,” added Sudip Datta, Chief Product Officer at Blackbaud . “With this kind of bi-directional native integration between Raiser’s Edge NXT and Almabase, advancement teams can operate with greater efficiency, improve the quality of their data, reduce costs, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for their organizations.”
Illinois Institue of Technology has transformed its alumni data management with TrueSync’s bi-directional sync capability allows the team to quickly push/pull out lists from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, improving the team's overall administrative workflow.
The integration allows the university’s database team to configure data collection per their needs, ensuring they can structure information effectively and cleanly enrich the data between systems. This eliminates the need to enter data manually and saves the institution valuable time and resources.
Read their complete success story here.
With the launch of TrueSync, advancement teams can eliminate the roadblocks caused by disjointed systems, empower organizations to build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, create more effective engagement strategies, and unlock new fundraising potential. TrueSync will expand to support Blackbaud CRM customers, too, helping them streamline how they manage their events and online fundraising campaigns.
To learn more about how TrueSync can transform your institution's data-management workflows, visit TrueSync webpage or connect with our team to see it makes managing programs seamless.
Introducing TrueSync: Industry's only two-way, native sync with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® to change the way you manage data, saving time and costs
Almabase has partnered with Blackbaud to launch TrueSync, a first-of-its-kind native integration with Blackbaud platforms like Raiser's Edge NXT.
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Pulling lists and updating constituent data, and updating information in Raiser's Edge is now even more efficient! While admins can pull data from Raiser's Edge independently with minimal effort, they still need to pull lists every time they want to pull constituent data, which requires them to keep moving between Almabase and RE. As we continuously make the database processes more efficient, we want to simplify how you create new records, pull lists, and fix errors seamlessly.
And that’s precisely what we’ve done with our latest auto-pull feature!
Dive in to find out more.
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The auto-pull feature lets you set up and update RE lists and queries through multiple one-time and auto-recurring pulls, simultaneously. If a new profile or record is added to RENXT, the recurring pull will automatically add new information from RENXT to the directory, improving data accuracy. Admins can save time by setting up daily, weekly, or monthly auto-pulls.
Note: Recurring pulls allow admins to add only new constituent information without updating existing records, as the sync system handles updates. For bulk updates, administrators should create a separate one-time pull session with the recurring pull option disabled.
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The new auto-pull feature streamlines email list management on Almabase. With the auto-pull update, admins can pull constituent data for email lists. For example, if you establish a daily pull for a list with 100 records on RENXT, any changes—such as adding or removing records—will be automatically reflected in your Almabase list. This means new records will be created for constituents not already on Almabase, and existing records will be updated accordingly.
Note: Almabase will periodically pull data from the RE list or RE query, and depending upon the type of configuration, it will add/remove constituents from the email group or list of records on Almabase.
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The new sync data dashboard lets you set up and manage: set upone-time or recurring and view historical pulls, all in a single dashboard. If there are any errors in constituent records or email lists, you can fix them directly within the same dashboard by clicking on the "Fix errors" button, eliminating the need to switch different tabs on Almabase or RENXT.
If you’re an Almabase customer, simply log into the platform's database settings to create your first auto-pull session.
If you’re not an Almabase customer, click here to learn more about our industry-leading integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Keep email lists and user-directory updated on their own with auto-pull sessions
We are constantly adding new capabilities to our integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT to help you create delightful alumni experiences while minimizing the resources and time you spend collecting, cleaning, reporting, and updating data.
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We are constantly adding new capabilities to our integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT to help you create delightful alumni experiences while minimizing the resources and time you spend collecting, cleaning, reporting and updating data.
That’s why today we’re thrilled to introduce the gift-pull feature that makes it effortlessly easy for you to pull gifts from Raiser's Edge NXT based on various criteria like fund, campaign, appeal, and date-range and relay them back to specific giving pages.
No more going back and forth to check if the gift data across your systems are the same. Gift-Pull ensures they will be.
Let's dive into the key highlights of this feature:
While previously you could push gifts received on Almabase in one click into Raiser’s Edge NXT, now you can pull any gift from Raiser’s Edge NXT. We’ve provided a range of filters like campaign, appeal, gift type and date-range to ensure you’ve complete control over what gifts you import.
We just one-upped the raft of filters that let you create personalized email outreach campaigns. Thanks to the gift-pull feature, your constituents’ gift history is now updated on Almabase, which means you can now build email lists based on giving behavior.
Planning a targeted email campaign just for LYBUNTS? Let’s do it.
Adding a gift manually to Raiser’s Edge NXT? No problem. Now you can relay that gift data back to Almabase, thus ensuring your leaderboards and campaign goals on the giving pages reflect the latest donations received. You can also configure automated gift-pull workflows at intervals you like for your ongoing campaigns.
Additionally, special care has gone into ensuring duplicate entries don’t crop up either in Almabase or Raiser’s Edge NXT every time a pull is made.
Keeping any collaborators informed will help avoid any unplanned imports. You can create a list of recipients to notify every time a gift-pull is completed.
Our gift-pull feature is available starting today.
If you’re an Almabase customer, simply log into the platform to create your first gift-pull.
If you’re not an Almabase customer, click here to learn more about our industry-leading integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Automate gift-import into Almabase from Raiser's Edge NXT
We are constantly adding new capabilities to our integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT to help you create delightful alumni experiences while minimizing the resources and time you spend collecting, cleaning, reporting and updating data.
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