Blackbaud announces TechnOvation grand prize winners
Howard Lake | 15 October 2002 | News
Blackbaud, the technology provider to non-profit organisations and educational institutions, has announced the three grand-prize winners of the 2002 TechnOvation Award, a new international award that honors technological leadership at non-profit organiszations.
The three winners were announced at the company’s International Conference on Philanthropy. They are:
- Association for International Cancer Research, St. Andrews, Fife, UK
During a period of explosive growth, reduced the time it took to acknowledge gifts from weeks to days using scanning technology in conjunction with The Raiser’s Edge®.
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- Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Reduced administrative costs by $55,000 and made changes in programming to better meet member needs after using The Raiser’s Edge to track and analyze member visits.
- U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Naval Academy Foundation, Annapolis, MD
Strengthened relationships with alumni by creating special Web pages that share data with The Raiser’s Edge.
Germaine Ward, Vice President of Products at Blackbaud, announced the three grand-prize winners after honoring the ten finalists for their achievements. “Our hope is that, by highlighting some of the key ways your peers have overcome challenges in their environments, others will be enlightened and will also benefit from these TechnOvations,” said Ward, who joined Paul Clolery, Editor-in-Chief of The NonProfit Times, and Ron Eagle, President of the Information Technology Alliance, in making the final selection. Each of the three winners received a trophy and a $2,000 donation.
You can read profiles of the ten finalists at Blackbaud.com.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.