Product Update Briefing

Raiser's Edge NXT: May 2026

Details about the "Available now" capabilities highlighted in the May 2026 Product Update Briefing are below.

Video: To watch the May 2026 Product Update Briefing, register and receive the recording.

AI | Constituents | Data Health |Donation Forms | Email | Event Management | Fundraisers | General Features | Gifts | Integration | Membership | Portal | Premium Features | Prospect Insights | Query | Settings | SKY API | Standard Reports

AI

Chat for Blackbaud AI helps you use online giving best practices to leverage donation forms features that make an impact and streamline decision-making. When you use tailored prompts, it helps you:

  • Create branding cards for Optimized Donation Forms to design consistent, compelling forms that strengthen your message.

  • Ask for online giving best practices so you can apply proven techniques that improve donor response.

  • Compare Online Express donation forms and Blackbaud Donation Forms features to understand how to transition to Standard and Optimized Donation Forms.

Note: This feature is available only if your organization enables Generative AI features and you have permission to use them.

The Development Agent is Blackbaud’s first Agent for Good™, built to help fundraising teams deepen donor relationships and unlock new fundraising potential. Natively embedded in Raiser’s Edge NXT, the agent acts as a proactive virtual team member — supporting personalized outreach and engagement in a way that aligns with your preferences and fundraising approach.

The Development Agent is currently available in the US. Learn more about subscription options.

Organization admins can now enable all current and future generative AI features powered by Blackbaud AI with one global setting — giving your organization centralized control, clear compliance, and future-ready access to AI-powered tools that boost productivity and personalization.

If you don’t opt in, your organization remains opted out by default.

Learn more, including how to enable Generative AI features.

We’re excited to introduce Chat for Blackbaud AI, powered by generative AI. This feature is designed to save you time, improve donor engagement, and make smarter, data-driven decisions — all within Raiser's Edge NXT. With AI-powered assistance, you can focus on what matters most: building stronger relationships and driving your mission forward. Instead of manually searching for answers, simply ask the AI to draft content, suggest creative ideas, or provide actionable insights based on your data and best practices.

Think of it as having a helpful assistant:

  • You provide a prompt or question.

  • The system uses AI to generate a draft, suggestion, or summary.

You don’t need any AI technical knowledge to use this tool. Just type what you need, and the system will do the heavy lifting — saving you time and helping you focus on what matters most.

Tip: Do you have more questions about Blackbaud AI? Visit the Blackbaud Trust Center to view FAQs about Blackbaud AI.

How Can This Help You?

Here are some examples of what you can do with these new features:

  • Draft an email or message: 

    Example “Write a thank-you email to donors.”

    Bonus! Give the chat some feedback about a detail you want added.

  • Generate ideas:

    Example "Suggest three creative ideas for a year-end fundraising campaign."

  • Get quick answers about your constituents:

    Example “Summarize key details about [constituent name] for my next meeting.”

  • Ask questions about fundraising best practices:

    Examples “What are some best practices for re-engaging lapsed donors?” or “What follow-up actions are recommended after a donor meeting?”

  • Assist with fundraiser goals:

    Examples “Show me my top prospects for major gifts this quarter.” or “Show me a list of constituents to contact this week.”

  • Ask about fundraising goals:

    Example “Show me a total of all gifts received for the [campaign name] campaign.”

    Tip: Some answers may include a link so you can see how Chat for Blackbaud AI answered the question. For this one, you can select View list to confirm the information.

  • Ask product help questions:

    Example “How do I customize the Home page?”

And this is only the beginning — AI can assist with many more tasks as you explore.

Tip: Keep the chat open as you navigate Raiser's Edge NXT. When new information is available, the chat will update automatically with summaries. For quick inspiration, try the suggested prompts to see what AI can do for you.

Tips for Better Results

  • Be clear and specific in your prompts.

  • Include context like donor name or campaign.

  • Review and customize the AI-generated content before sending or publishing.

  • Refine responses by asking follow-up questions.

  • Use it as a starting point — your expertise makes it great!

Why It Matters

Chat for Blackbaud AI helps you:

  • Save time by reducing manual research and drafting.

  • Stay focused on strategy instead of repetitive tasks.

  • Improve donor engagement with personalized content. Work confidently knowing you can edit and refine AI-generated content to match your tone and goals.

How to get started

  1. Enable generative AI features – Before you can use Chat for Blackbaud AI, your organization admin must opt in to generative AI features in your Blackbaud environment. Once enabled, the authorization applies to all current and future generative AI features across your Blackbaud products. For details, see Opt In to Generative AI Features Globally help. If you don’t opt in, your organization remains opted out by default.

  2. Set permissions – Solution admins must assign the Artificial intelligence role to users who need access to chat.

  3. Open the chat – In Raiser's Edge NXT, select the Chat for Blackbaud AI sparkle icon from the top navigation.

  4. Review the Quick Start guide – Learn how to write effective prompts, refine responses, and get better results with our step-by-step tutorial.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my data secure? 

Yes! Your data remains secure. We follow industry-standard security measures to protect your information. Access to unapproved tools is restricted, and approved tools are vetted for privacy and compliance. AI responses are customized based on your organization’s data and respect your configured security permissions. For more details, see our Blackbaud AI Terms of Use.

Do I need technical skills? 

No. Just type your prompt and let the system handle the rest!

What if AI can't answer my question?

We’re always working to make Chat for Blackbaud AI more useful based on your needs. Your feedback helps us improve the experience and build tools that support your work. You can provide feedback in two ways:

The Chat for Blackbaud AI Prompt Library is now available — giving you a faster, more confident path to better results in Chat.

Instead of starting from a blank window and guessing how to phrase a question, you can begin with curated, ready-to-use prompts built around real fundraising, stewardship, and operations workflows. Use them as-is or adapt them to fit your situation.

Prompts are organized by category, including analytics and reporting, constituents and relationships, donor engagement, event management, gifts and pledges, opportunity and moves management, prospecting, stewardship and retention, strategy and best practices, and general assistance.

The way you phrase a question directly affects the quality of the answer you get back. The Prompt Library removes the guesswork, so you can spend less time figuring out what to ask and more time acting on what Chat surfaces.

We'll continue to add new prompts as we expand the library and as Chat for Blackbaud AI grows. Look for the New badge to quickly spot the latest additions to the library.

The Blackbaud Connector for Anthropic Claude securely integrates Raiser’s Edge NXT with Claude, enabling nonprofit professionals to access donor records, events, and gifts using natural language commands in Claude’s chat interface.

Example:

“Find John Doe’s contact information and latest gift.”

Claude retrieves the answer by securely calling Blackbaud tools behind the scenes.

Tip: The Blackbaud Connector brings Raiser's Edge NXT Chat for Blackbaud AI features into Claude, giving users a seamless way to access familiar capabilities without switching platforms. It’s designed to enhance workflows for those already working in Claude, keeping the experience consistent and easy.

Key Benefits

  • Real-time access to fundraising data

  • No changes to Raiser’s Edge NXT

  • Secure, role-based data access

  • Faster, easier workflows

Note: The connector is a Blackbaud-supported native integration for all Raiser’s Edge NXT customers in regions where Raiser’s Edge NXT and Claude for Work Enterprise and Teams plans are supported, requiring no third-party development.

Constituents

Online constituent forms help you drive engagement and streamline data entry. To make it easy for constituents to update their profile, choose communication preferences, and collect additional information on your website, create a form from Online Giving, Constituent forms.

Now you can manage fund relationships directly from constituent records and fund records using dedicated fund relationship tiles. This update lets you view, add, and edit fund relationships from either side of the relationship.

Bulk constituent process is now available to provide clear visibility into processing progress through a detailed status view. You can now process or reject process multiple constituent updates at once in web view. The behavior varies by tab. For more information, see Bulk Constituent Processing.

Data Health

We’ve added four new benchmarking tiles to the Home page to give you fast, contextual insight into how your fundraising performance compares to similar organizations. Benchmarking uses the Blackbaud Philanthropic dataset — the largest of its kind — to ground your goals in real‑world donor behavior and sector dynamics, normalizing for organizational scale and revealing clear strengths, gaps, and opportunities for growth. Your results are compared to peer groups based on country, industry, and revenue size, then scored using percentile ranges to provide a meaningful benchmark from 1 to 10. This ensures consistent, apples‑to‑apples comparisons using all donors, calendar‑year data, and cash‑in‑hand giving. With this foundation, the new tiles help you quickly spot trends, communicate performance with confidence to boards and stakeholders, and align goals with actionable insights.

  • The Active donor growth tile tracks changes in your active donor base, helping you understand shifts in engagement and assess the impact of outreach efforts.

  • The Revenue growth tile provides a quick view of how revenue is trending over time, helping you detect patterns and identify areas that may need attention.

  • The Revenue per donor tile shows the average contribution per donor, making it easy to monitor engagement levels and evaluate the effectiveness of fundraising strategies.

  • The Sustainer performance tile offers a snapshot of your sustainer program’s health, including counts of sustainers, non‑sustainers, and potential sustainers, along with retention and growth insights.

Together, these tiles transform the Home page into a strategic dashboard so that you can turn every metric into clear, actionable guidance.

Donation Forms

You can now offer a bill-me-later option for pledges, giving donors the flexibility to commit without providing payment during the donation form experience. This option supports pledge‑specific business processes where payment is collected later, either manually or through a separate process, while still capturing the donor’s intent and pledge amount up front.

To better understand how donors reach your donation forms, you can now track UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) parameters using Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics. When a donor opens a donation form with UTM values, GTM captures the parameters and sends them with donation form events to Google Analytics, where you can report on which campaigns, sources, and mediums lead to completed donations. This helps you connect giving activity to outreach efforts such as email and social media and evaluate campaign performance with greater confidence.

To help your organization understand donor behavior, strengthen engagement, and create more effective donation forms, new key metrics and data analysis using Chat for Blackbaud AI are available from Online Giving, Overview.

New visualizations help you evaluate performance and take action:

To help you gracefully manage donation forms for fundraising campaigns that end, now you can close a form. Closing a form lets you:

  • Set a date and time for the form to stop accepting gifts.

  • Shows donors a custom message where you can include links to other forms or webpages.

  • Avoid broken links or QR codes.

  • Continue to view the form's statistics.

To learn more, see Close a Donation Form.

Close a donation form.

To give you more control in how you manage and track your organization's advertising efforts, donation forms now support Google Tag Manager. To learn more about how to use Google Tag Manager with donation forms, see Track Donation Forms with Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager.

Use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to track donation forms.

Email

When creating an email to send to constituents, you can now use two new merge fields — Primary addressee and Primary salutation — to personalize how recipients are addressed. These options help ensure greetings reflect a constituent’s preferred name or salutation rather than relying solely on a full name. To insert them, select Merge, then Donor, and choose the appropriate field. If a primary addressee or salutation isn’t defined, the email automatically falls back to the constituent’s full name, so your message is always complete and ready to send.

Event Management

You can now manage linked events directly from a campaign record, streamlining your event tracking and fundraising oversight.

Fundraisers

You can now filter Opportunity lists by Gift type, making it easier to see whether an opportunity is expected to result in pledges, gifts in kind, or other gift types. From Portfolio, Opportunity lists, open a list and select Filters. Under Opportunity details, choose Gift type and apply the filter.

You can also add Gift type as a column to quickly scan and compare opportunities at a glance. This helps you prioritize follow‑up without opening individual records. Select Columns, Opportunity details, choose Gift type, and apply the change.

Tip: Gift type information is sourced from the opportunity record and reflects the value shown on the Details tile.

General Features

On a constituent record, you can link or unlink existing appeals and update certain appeal details, without impacting historical gifts or interactions. This update provides a more direct way to maintain accurate appeal associations for constituents.

You can now manage campaign, fund, and appeal details directly from their associated records, making it easier to keep track of information and improve your financial oversight:

  • Linked appeals and campaigns on Fund records

  • Linked campaigns and funds on Appeal records

  • Linked appeals and funds on Campaign records

You can now add, edit, and remove Campaigns and Funds directly on an Action Record. This allows you to keep the action tied to the appropriate fundraising effort without leaving web view. For additional information, see Action Records.

Gifts

To streamline planned giving record keeping, you can now edit the following tiles for existing planned gifts in web view:

  • Assets

  • Planned gift details

  • Planned gift vehicles (tile changes based on the vehicle selection)

  • Beneficiaries

  • Relationships

In web view you can also now view the Realized revenue tile, which includes information about the revenue linked to the planned gift.

From the grid view, select Apply template to apply an existing batch template to quickly set up your batch, maintain consistency, and reduce data entry errors. Batch templates define which fields appear in the grid and can include default values for those fields. When you apply a template to a new or existing batch, the selected fields and default values are added automatically.

Now when you add a gift from Home or a constituent's record, back‑office gift entry uses the same checkout experience as online forms. The new checkout experience provides a modern, secure way to process payments.

Note: Update March 30, 2026: We recommend requiring the card security code (CSC) for all new credit card payments to strengthen security and safeguard your transactions. Based on your feedback, we’ve temporarily reverted back-office functionality to the original checkout for card processing. The new checkout will return in 2027, giving you time to prepare and adjust your back-office procedures. We will provide more information and an updated timeline soon.

You can now configure general ledger distributions directly on Funds records in web view for both Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT integrated and non-integrated environments.

You can now apply manual payments to automated pledges. This enhancement lets your organization accept manual payments for open installments and update pledge schedules with more control.

To more easily manage payment information, now you can update credit card details for automated pledges.

As promised, we’ve made the following updates to the grid batch:

  • You can now create a constituent directly from the grid with the new Add Constituent button.

  • For more accurate gift review, split gifts display the selected campaign, fund, and appeal names instead of Split in the Campaign, Funds, and Appeals columns.

  • For faster data entry, the Campaign, Funds, and Appeals columns now begin searching for results after you enter two characters instead of three.

The new grid batch offers an improved workflow for adding multiple gifts to a batch, while maintaining all the functionality of the previous batch UI. From Gifts, Overview, select Add, New grid batch, or on an existing unapproved batch's record, select Edit, Edit in grid view. Now you can see and review all batch gifts in a single grid, tab through fields for faster entry, and configure the columns to add, remove, or rearrange fields on the batch. The status column is locked to allow you to easily identify and review errors that occurred when saving gifts. For more information, see Add or Edit Gifts in Grid Batch.

Updated batch fields include the constituent field, which now has an advanced search that provides additional constituent details to ensure that you're selecting the correct constituent. After you enter a constituent, select the constituent icon that to open and edit the constituent record from the flyout without having to leave the grid batch.

Under Related Links, you can access the new template functionality, which allows you to set the columns and default values for the fields on your batches. You can reuse the templates for each batch you create, allowing for a quicker workflow. For more information, see Create a Gift Batch Template.

Note: The approval process for batches is not changing. Any existing unapproved batches in your system are unaffected by the update.

The Gift list now includes a new Next installment date filter and column that enables more precise segmentation of pledges based on the due date of the next installment with an outstanding balance. This enhancement helps you quickly identify donors with upcoming or overdue payments, improving follow‑up and stewardship workflows. Because this date reflects the next unpaid installment, it may appear in the past when a pledge is overdue. In addition, Blackbaud AI Chat now supports questions related to the next installment date for pledges, making it easier to surface this information without navigating the interface.

Ask Blackbaud AI: Who has pledges due this month from my portfolio?

Integration

You can now manage options directly in web view for Luminate Online integration. This update lets you configure default automatic processing, address information, constituent codes, and record‑matching behavior, including duplicate‑matching criteria, so the integration works the way your organization needs it. This does not need any action on your part. For more information, see Options.

You can now configure general ledger distributions directly on Funds records in web view for both Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT integrated and non-integrated environments.

You can now manage several aspects of your Raiser's Edge and Luminate Online integration directly within Raiser's Edge NXT. While work continues on expanding web view integration, this update introduces a connection between Raiser's Edge NXT and Luminate Online, along with options for working with constituent and gift data.

Supervisor users with access to the database plugin will see the new top-level menu item labeled Luminate Online in web view. The database view plugin remains unchanged, but the web view version offers a convenient experience for completing integration tasks.

For more information, see Raiser's Edge NXT and Luminate Online.

Membership

Create, edit and delete all membership information directly from the Membership record in Raiser’s Edge NXT web view. All tiles (Credited to, Members and cards, Gift of membership, Benefits, Custom fields, and Linked gifts) support these actions. If your organization uses Memberships, these updates appear automatically with no setup required.

To help you manage memberships and gifts together, you can now link memberships directly to gifts from the gift record in web view. Use the new Memberships tile to view linked memberships, add new ones, or edit existing links without leaving the gift record.

For more information, see Gift Records.

You can now view all your membership information in one place. We've added six new tiles to Membership details — Credited to, Members and card details, Gift of membership, Benefits, Custom fields, and Linked gifts.

The Custom fields tile supports view, add, edit, and delete, while the other tiles are currently view‑only. If your organization uses Memberships, these tiles appear automatically with no setup required. Additional add, edit, and delete functionality for tiles will be released in future updates. For additional information, see Membership Records.

Portal

To help constituents instantly recognize and trust your brand when they visit the portal, your organization's name now displays alongside your logo in the portal menu. To learn more about this setting, see Portal Settings.

Portal menu with logo and organization name

To help your organization increase constituent engagement, streamline giving, and save time, portal users can now:

  • View memberships and events - Portal users can easily view their memberships and past and future events keeping them informed and engaged.

  • Give through an Optimized Donation Form – Admins can select an Optimized Donation Form for portal giving. This provides portal users with a streamlined, user-friendly experience.

  • PCI v4-compliant saved payments - Portal users can save their payments with a checkout that is dynamic, secure, and with no scheduled payments downtime.

  • Recognize your brand – The portal displays your organization’s name and logo together to reinforce brand identity and create a personalized experience.

  • Improved navigation – A redesigned left navigation makes it easier for portal users to find what they need, improving usability and overall satisfaction.

To learn how to set up and configure your organization's portal experience, see Portal.

Enhanced portal homepage

Premium Features

Tip: What are Premium features?

Action plans enable you to generate a complete, AI-driven cultivation sequence for an opportunity. Each plan is organized into up to seven steps aligned to your ask date or deadline and includes suggested activities such as emails, calls, meetings, and mailings, along with supporting content.

You can review and adjust each step in Chat for Blackbaud AI before applying it. Once finalized, add steps directly to the opportunity as actions to track progress and manage engagement through the Actions tile.

Turn common giving analysis questions into clear visuals — right in Chat for Blackbaud AI. Switch between Bar chart, Pie chart, or List view using the new Display as field, then print or download the chart image from the menu to share or save.

Why it matters

  • See cash flow at a glance. Visualize projected revenue from future pledge and recurring gift payments to better understand upcoming cash flow.

  • Spot what’s driving results. View giving by revenue or gift counts across top campaigns, funds, or appeals to quickly identify what’s performing.

  • Move faster from insight to action. Toggle views without re-running queries and share visuals instantly.

Ask Blackbaud AI: "Show me all actions assigned to me grouped by type."

Ask Blackbaud AI: "What are the top 10 funds for this fiscal year?"

Ask Blackbaud AI: "Show me projected revenue for next fiscal year." (bar chart only)

Benchmarking tiles now include a Suggest actions button that connects you to Chat for Blackbaud AI — so you can move from insight to impact faster.

Available on Active donor growth, Revenue growth, Revenue per donor, and Sustainer performance benchmarking tiles, this feature provides real‑time, personalized guidance based on your organization’s data and peer benchmarks.

With AI guidance, you can:

  • Understand how your performance trends compare to similar organizations

  • Interpret benchmark results with clear, contextual insights

  • Get tailored recommendations curated for your benchmark cohort

  • Take next steps directly from the tile, such as launching campaigns or adjusting strategies

Select Suggest actions to see your next best move and turn benchmark insights into meaningful progress.

Action strategies help fundraisers show up prepared for the outreach they’re doing next. Instead of digging through records before a call, email, or meeting, action strategies pull together the most relevant donor context for actions due today or coming soon — so fundraisers can focus on the conversation, not last-minute research.

With action strategies, fundraisers can quickly see what’s changed, what matters most right now, and how to approach the outreach. Each action includes a personalized preparation guide that surfaces recent activity, key donor signals, communication preferences and consent, and related opportunities or cultivation plans. Action strategies can also generate optional content, such as talking points, agendas, or drafts, and provide clear recommendations — like whether to proceed, pause, or cancel — based on new context.

Action strategies are available by default to fundraisers who use Work Center in accounts with access to Premium features, with no setup required for eligible users. Action strategies require Blackbaud AI to be enabled and are designed to support confident, timely outreach while keeping fundraisers in control of their relationships.

We’ve added four new benchmarking tiles to the Home page to give you fast, contextual insight into how your fundraising performance compares to similar organizations. Benchmarking uses the Blackbaud Philanthropic dataset — the largest of its kind — to ground your goals in real‑world donor behavior and sector dynamics, normalizing for organizational scale and revealing clear strengths, gaps, and opportunities for growth. Your results are compared to peer groups based on country, industry, and revenue size, then scored using percentile ranges to provide a meaningful benchmark from 1 to 10. This ensures consistent, apples‑to‑apples comparisons using all donors, calendar‑year data, and cash‑in‑hand giving. With this foundation, the new tiles help you quickly spot trends, communicate performance with confidence to boards and stakeholders, and align goals with actionable insights.

  • The Active donor growth tile tracks changes in your active donor base, helping you understand shifts in engagement and assess the impact of outreach efforts.

  • The Revenue growth tile provides a quick view of how revenue is trending over time, helping you detect patterns and identify areas that may need attention.

  • The Revenue per donor tile shows the average contribution per donor, making it easy to monitor engagement levels and evaluate the effectiveness of fundraising strategies.

  • The Sustainer performance tile offers a snapshot of your sustainer program’s health, including counts of sustainers, non‑sustainers, and potential sustainers, along with retention and growth insights.

Together, these tiles transform the Home page into a strategic dashboard so that you can turn every metric into clear, actionable guidance.

Maximize fundraising outcomes with Prospect Insights Pro's optimized opportunities. Now, when you add or edit an opportunity for a prospect in a Prospect Insights Pro queue, Prospect Insights Pro suggests gift ask amounts based on a prospect's likely gift capacity.

This capability represents the initial release of the Cultivation Assistant — an intelligent assistant that helps fundraisers move opportunities forward faster by combining Prospect Insights Pro with Blackbaud AI.

For those with Blackbaud AI - Chat enabled, you can create an action plan to support opportunities you create or edit via Prospect Insights Pro.

For more information, see Prospect Insights Pro Opportunities.

Optimized opportunity
Optimized opportunity

To help you better segment prospect pools, you can now view and filter lists and queries using Prospect Insights Pro data models.

Prospect Insights Pro category and value selection
Prospect Insights Pro list category and value selection

For more information, see Identify Prospect Insights Pro Candidates using Lists or Queries.

To help you better manage prospect disqualification actions, you can now edit their details.

To edit disqualification details:

  1. Select Prospect insights activity history from a prospect's record or from the prospect's Analysis tab in Prospect Insights or Prospect Insights Pro.

  2. Select edit and make the desired changes.

Edit Prospect Insights or Prospect Insights Pro prospect qualification details

Prospect Insights

To make identifying specific types of candidates easier, now you can filter Prospect Insights queues to:

  • display candidates who meet predictive giving criteria associated with a Prospect Insights model. For more information, see Prospect Insights Models.

  • show prospects who have specific constituent codes. For more information, see Constituent Codes.

To make filtering prospect queues easier, now you can exclude prospects based on their fundraiser assignment using the fundraiser filter.

To filter out prospects from a queue assigned to specific fundraisers:

  1. Select the fundraisers from the fundraiser filter.

  2. Select Excludes any of.

  3. Select Apply.

Query

You can now resize the Query editor panes to create a workspace that supports your workflow. A new grab handle appears between the panes so you can adjust the width to focus on the criteria, output, or sort information you need. You can also resize the panes with the keyboard, which supports users who prefer or require keyboard navigation.

When you adjust the pane widths, SKY UX sticky settings store your preferences for each product and each editor view. For example, Criteria, Output, and Sort store their pane widths independently. Your preferred layout appears each time you open an editor so you can stay focused on your task without reorganizing your workspace.

Arrows point to resizable Query editor pane divider

We updated how queries format Name to align it more closely with natural language and to distinguish it from Sort Name. Sort Name uses the Last, First Middle format; Name and Sort Name had displayed the same information. To support multiple formats in web view Query, Name now displays First MI Last. Sort Name continues to display Last, First Middle.

How this update affects workflows

  • Use Sort Name when you need Last, First Middle for sorting or grouping.

  • Use Name when you need First MI Last for display or export.

  • Include both fields in a query when you need both formats available for review.

This update ensures that both formats are available in web view Query. Teams that prefer First MI Last can use Name, and teams that rely on Last, First Middle can use Sort Name.

Note: Queries that currently include Name may need to switch to Sort Name if the user wants to use Last, First Middle.

To make it easy to see which fields aren’t available in database view, web view queries now display a cloud icon for fields that are exclusive to web view. This visibility helps you confidently build queries that use web view–only data and benefit from additional insights you couldn’t access before.

We've added new fields from database view Export to web view Query:

  • Constituent, Sort name with import ID

  • Gift, Fund list

  • Preferred Address, Preferred Address

  • Address processing, Address

These address fields include all address lines in the same cell.

To support consistent terminology in Query, we’ve renamed the Sort key fields where needed:

  • Sort name lists Last name, First nameMiddle name

  • Sort name with import ID lists Last name, First name, Middle name, Import ID

Settings

We’ve simplified the Settings experience so you can spend less time navigating and more time getting things done. Instead of opening a dropdown and knowing which page to choose, selecting Settings in the left navigation now takes you straight to the main Settings page. Once you’re there, a new built‑in search helps you find the setting you want to update.

This update is designed to make Settings more intuitive, more flexible, and more future‑ready. Previously, Settings were spread across multiple sub‑menus, which meant you had to understand the structure before you could make a change. This release begins a broader consolidation of Settings into a single, easier‑to‑scan destination that’s built to grow. You’ll see more settings move here over time, and new settings will land on this page in future releases, making it the central place to find, manage, and update everything you need.

Intelligent tags — previously known as Tags in Raiser’s Edge NXT — are now managed directly in Settings, giving organizations more control over which donor insights appear throughout their fundraising workflows. These insights highlight key donor behaviors such as recent giving, lapsing activity, event participation, wealth changes, and personal milestones. They appear across the product, including constituent records, lists, Work Center, and prospect outreach recommendations in Chat for Blackbaud AI.

With this update, admins control which insights appear, so teams are guided by consistent, strategy‑aligned signals that support confident, results‑driven fundraising. By managing intelligent tags and displaying only the ones that matter to your organization, fundraisers see the most relevant donor insights when they work in Raiser’s Edge NXT.

Admins can turn individual intelligent tags on or off in Settings, Intelligent tags. A new Manage intelligent tags permission in Security, Role management, Settings determines who can adjust which insights appear.

This enhancement strengthens organizational governance, improves the relevance of insights fundraisers rely on, and creates a foundation for a more unified settings experience.

SKY API

We added import_id and notes properties to the response and request body of the following endpoints:

  • CreateConstituentEducation - Added import_id and notes properties to the request body.

  • EditConstituentEducation - Added the notes property to the request body.

  • GetConstituentEducation - Added import_id and notes properties to the response.

  • ListConstituentEducationsSingleConstituent - Added import_id and notes properties to the response.

  • ListConstituentEducationsAllConstituents - Added import_id and notes properties to the response.

A suite of planned gift endpoints is coming soon to the Gift V2 API as a public preview. These endpoints will allow you to manage records associated with a planned gift, including:

  • Planned gift details and vehicle-specific fields

  • Planned gift assets

  • Planned gift beneficiaries

  • Planned gift relationships

  • Realized revenue gifts

The following Membership endpoints are now available as public preview for Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT.

  • AddMembershipFundraiserAsync - Adds a list of membership fundraisers

  • CreateMembershipDowngrade - Downgrades a membership during cycle. Only active or lapsed memberships can be downgraded

  • CreateMembershipDrop - Drops a membership. Only active or lapsed memberships can be dropped

  • CreateMembershipRejoin - Rejoins a membership. Only dropped memberships can be rejoined

  • CreateMembershipRenewal - Renew membership

  • CreateMembershipUpgrade - Upgrades a membership during cycle. Only active or lapsed memberships can be upgraded.

  • DeleteMembershipAsync - Deletes a membership

  • DeleteMembershipCardAsync - Deletes a membership card. Note: The primary member card cannot be deleted

  • DeleteMembershipCustomFieldAsync - Deletes a membership custom field

  • DeleteMembershipFundraiserAsync - Deletes a membership fundraiser

  • EditGiftOfMembershipByMemberJunctionId - Update the gift of membership

  • EditMembershipCardAsync - Edits a membership card with the specified changes

  • EditMembershipCustomFieldAsync - Edit membership custom field

  • GetMembershipCardByIdAsync - Return a single membership by ID

We made the following updates to the Opportunity API:

For the CreateOpportunity and EditOpportunity endpoints, we added an optional property, likelihood, which indicates your level of confidence in receiving gifts from the opportunity.

For the GetOpportunity, CreateOpportunity, EditOpportunity, and ListOpportunities endpoints, we added a new optional property, gift_type, which specifies the type of gifts you expect from the opportunity, such as pledges or gifts in kind.

As an initial step toward upcoming query enhancements, the GetQueryListV2 endpoint is available in public preview. This new version supports all filters and output from the original query list, with a single exception. The offset property, previously used for pagination, is now replaced with a new continuation_token property. The response includes this property when additional pages remain, to be included in the request for the next page.

The Volunteer API endpoint is now available in a public preview. Use it to manage volunteer data, including skills, emergency contacts, assignments, timesheets, and job information.

Effective April 23, 2026, the Volunteer API is introducing breaking changes across four endpoints. These updates are available for review in the API Changelog.

Standard Reports

You can now analyze alumni giving trends by graduating class, degree program, and major with the new Alumni Class Analysis report. Use this report to compare class-level performance or review individual gift detail to better understand alumni engagement and fundraising opportunities over time.

For more information, see Standard Reports.

In response to your feedback, Comparison and Summaries reports in Standard reports now support the Class of field, allowing you to run reports broken down by class years. You can apply this field from the Fields tab when building or editing a report. Previously, class year data was only available in database view.

In response to your feedback, we’ve added a new way to customize how constituent names appear in Standard reports. Previously, you could only choose Individual’s name or Individual’s record as the name source. Now, you can select From configuration for even greater flexibility. This enhancement allows you to apply any name format defined in Configuration, Addressees/Salutations in database view. For example, you can include a constituent’s ID in the name format — helping you tailor reports to your organization’s needs. When you add or edit a Standard report, on the Formats tab, under Constituent, select From configuration and choose a name format from your configuration settings. This update gives you more control over how names display in reports, ensuring consistency and alignment with your organization’s standards.