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Blackbaud Announces Platform for Good™, Social Impact's First-Ever Unified Operating System

$BLKBPress releaseSep 29, 2026, 10:15 AM ETRead the release

Blackbaud unveiled Platform for Good, described as the first unified operating system for social impact, connecting its full product ecosystem through a shared data, intelligence, and action architecture. Among the headline innovations is Lantern, a domain-specific language model for fundraising intelligence built in collaboration with Databricks, plus new AI agents and the next native-cloud chapter of Raiser's Edge NXT. Blackbaud also announced partnerships with BILL and Student First covering next-generation payment workflows and a higher-education Connected Campus solution.

Key figures

Datasets foundation
Blackbaud Philanthropic Dataset, Blackbaud Institute research datasets, Blackbaud Giving Search
Giving history tracked
$1 trillion

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