Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge Consulting and Support Services
We offer a full range of Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge consulting, implementation, and support options geared towards Non-Profits, Higher Ed, K-12, Independent Schools, and Healthcare Organizations.
Enhance Your Report Library
Upgrade your end user’s experience by providing sophisticated 21st century reports and dashboards.
Custom Reports and Dashboards
- We can work with you to create Advancement reporting staples such as LYBUNT & SYBUNT reports as well as help you build custom reports to meet your needs.
- Distribute professionally designed receipts, acknowledgments and pledge reminder documents.
Convert Legacy Reports to Modern Tools
- We can update your legacy reports or create new reports and dashboards that reduce ad-hoc list creation.
- We are experience with multiple reporting tools, including but not limited to Evisions Argos, IBM Cognos, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Microsoft Access, etc.
Experienced Advancement proffessionals
Our consultants have experience in all levels of reporting – for leadership, system administrators, gift processors, and gift officers. We have the know-how to handle the complex fundraising reporting that comes with being a Non-Profit, Higher Ed, or Healthcare Institution, and have won CASE awards for reports we have built in the past.
Customized to your organization
Our consultants work with your team to identify and define the processes you want streamlined and automated.
We use an iterative process with short development times, so we can show you the developments as they are being built. We secure your feedback, address any concerns you may have, integrate your feedback and continue the development cycle with your needs at the forefront.
Raiser's Edge Automations
This service provides all the needed support to automate yoursystem.
- Data Assessment and Mapping
- Oracle and SQL Technical Development Work
- Gift, Pledge and Biographic Data Loads
- and More
Maintenance & Updates
We strive to empower and educate your team so they can successfully use and manage these configurations going forward.
In support of that goal, we provide customized documentation and training for your administrators so they know how to maintain or augment the code or tool in the future.
In addition, we offer long-term support and backfill support packages to ensure you’ve got the resources you need to achieve your goals.
Automation & Integrations
Do more with less and ensure your team have the right data to manage their day-to-day operations
Automation & Integrations
Do more with less and ensure your team have the right data to manage their day-to-day operations
Customized to your organization
Our consultants work with your team to identify and define the processes you want streamlined and automated.
We use an iterative process with short development times, so we can show you the developments as they are being built. We secure your feedback, address any concerns you may have, integrate your feedback and continue the development cycle with your needs at the forefront.
Raiser's Edge Automations
This service provides all the needed support to automate yoursystem.
- Data Assessment and Mapping
- Oracle and SQL Technical Development Work
- Gift, Pledge and Biographic Data Loads
- and More
Maintenance & Updates
We strive to empower and educate your team so they can successfully use and manage these configurations going forward.
In support of that goal, we provide customized documentation and training for your administrators so they know how to maintain or augment the code or tool in the future.
In addition, we offer long-term support and backfill support packages to ensure you’ve got the resources you need to achieve your goals.
Custom Support
Need something not listed above? Contact us and we can create a custom support package tailored to your organization’s needs
Audits
- High-Level System Audit
- Advancement Operations and Workflow Audit
- Data Audit
Integration Support
- System Integrations
- 3rd party app integrations
- more
Everything else
- System Conversion
- Implementation Partner for new system, including Salesforce and Ellucian CRM
- Complex Report and Utility Creation
- Other Custom Ellucian Advance Needs
Still not seeing what you need? Contact us and we can create a custom support package.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some answers to some typical questions we get from clients as they begin planning their upgrade.
Does Sleek have experience using Blackbaud Raiser's Edge and Raiser's Edge NXT?
Yes.
Sleek has consultants that have worked with Raiser’s Edge since the 1990s.
Do Sleek consultants understand advancement best practices?
Our team members have spent many years in higher education advancement offices, holding positions that range from data and gift processors to report writers and director-level positions.
What type of reporting experience does Sleek offer?
We have developed reporting strategies, cultivated data definitions, built data marts and developed reports and dashboards on many different reporting tools and systems. Our team has received CASE awards for developing custom advancement utilities.
We are also using Blackbaud's Financial Edge, Education Edge, or Both. Can Sleek help us integrate with NXT?
Yes.
We can assist your organization in establishing the required links between your different Blackbaud systems, and help you develop the practical business processes that will ensure the integrity of your data.
How can we know what additional tools we want to use with NXT?
We know that every organization has different needs. We will work with you to help streamline and strategize about what you really need without complication and wasting resources.
Can you help me move to another system outside of the Blackbaud ecosystem?
Yes.
Our consultants have helped organizations transition from Raiser’s Edge to most major fundraising systems including Salesforce.
We are small organization with limited resources, how do we afford help?
Sleek Consulting is committed to helping organizations of all sizes. Please contact us and we will work out a proposal to meet your needs and your budget.
Has Sleek managed integrations between Salesforce and third-party vendor systems and solutions?
Yes.
We have worked on integrations with systems such as iModules, Ruffalo Noel Levitz, EverTrue, Pardot, Wealth Engine, and more.
We are planning a Campaign – can you help us assess our infrastructure to support this Campaign?
Yes.
Our team of professionals understands Advancement. We have been consulting and performing assessments since the 1990s. We offer System Assessments, Operation Assessments, and detailed Data Audits.
Do you offer Raiser's Edge NXT training?
Yes.
All of our support packages include system-based training.
In addition to basic training, we can also create organization-specific role-based documentation and training that applies to each member of your team.
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Process Documentation
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Train the Trainer
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Post-implementation Support
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Refresher Training and New Hire Onboarding
"Sleek meets you where you are, and helps get you where you need to be... "
-Robin S. King
Saint Joseph Prep