What an incredible week at BBCON 2025! As a long-standing member of the Blackbaud Partner Network, FundMiner was thrilled to participate in this vibrant gathering of the global social impact community. We were especially honored to receive the Marketplace Growth Award at the Partner Summit
for our commitment to excellence, collaboration, and fostering a growing community of organizations closing the gap between dollars raised and impact delivered. This recognition reflects our shared belief that when technology and purpose align, real impact happens.
The biggest takeaway from BBCON 2025 is clear: the social impact sector is undergoing a seismic shift driven by innovation, connection, and responsible AI. Here are the five biggest takeaways from the conference and how FundMiner helps organizations leverage these new possibilities.
1. The Era of Embedded and Sector-Specific AI
Blackbaud announced a massive rollout of 70+ embedded, sector-specific AI capabilities coming to its product portfolio. The core message is that mission-driven organizations need solutions designed for their unique business operations that deliver immediate results without adding complexity.
How FundMiner Leverages It: FundMiner’s commitment to seamless integration aligns perfectly with the need for purpose-built solutions. We don’t seek to replace your current systems, instead FundMiner connects them, along with your workflows. By bringing together your financial, donor, and operational fund data into one unified platform, FundMiner transforms information into intelligent action, giving your team visibility into the full picture for faster decisions and stronger outcomes.
2. The Rise of Agentic AI and Virtual Teammates
Blackbaud introduced Agents for Good™, a new agentic AI suite designed to help social impact organizations expand their teams with virtual members. These agents are intended to autonomously execute complex workflows and free up teams across fundraising, finance, and corporate impact, allowing organizations to achieve more, at scale.
How FundMiner Leverages It: FundMiner is already focused on automating and streamlining workflows within your organization, closing the gap between the dollars raised and the impact delivered. For example, one client saved 700+ hours by designing and delivering impact reports directly through FundMiner. By eliminating manual processes, like struggling with Excel formulas and emailing data exports, FundMiner acts as the centralized system that allows teams to execute tasks efficiently and focus on driving impact.
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3. Critical Need for Connected Intelligent Systems
A major theme was the necessity of connected insight across business offices. Blackbaud AI enhancements will integrate data, allowing a fundraiser, for instance, to simply chat with the AI to draw on accounting data and share how a specific donor gift was spent in real-time.
How FundMiner Leverages It: FundMiner brings together your various sources of truth (including Financial Edge NXT, Raiser’s Edge NXT, Blackbaud CRM, and Blackbaud Award Management) in one single view. This powerful partnership means that your relationship management capabilities are combined with insightful fund management tools. FundMiner monitors fund utilization via dynamic dashboards that provide a 360° view of philanthropic resources, which is essential for achieving the level of cross-office connection Blackbaud envisions.
4. Commitment to Responsible AI and Sector Literacy
Recognizing that harnessing AI requires collective action, Blackbaud convened the AI Coalition for Social Impact to champion responsible AI. This effort is launching the free AI for Social Impact Certification Course to focus on foundational AI skills and principles, ensuring the sector advances with integrity and transparency.
How FundMiner Leverages It: Integrity and trust are paramount in the AI era. The Fund Management Masterclass offered by FundMiner is an eight-week, peer-led learning experience designed to help professionals build a best-in-class fund management program from the ground up. This intensive program, taught by expert faculty from various universities, focuses on a structured curriculum covering crucial topics such as industry background, internal and external relationships, gift agreements and donor intent, and comprehensive reporting practices. Participants enroll in small cohorts to engage in an intimate roundtable setting, and registration includes the complete Fund Management Playbook: a resource packed with customizable templates and step-by-step guides, which can also be purchased separately for those not ready for the full masterclass experience.
5. Seamlessly Integrated Donor, Financial, and Fund InformationAn Agentic Ecosystem Driving Future Success
Blackbaud shared its vision for an agentic ecosystem, where Blackbaud AI can orchestrate agents built by other providers, not just its own. The foundation for this is being laid now through expanding partner integrations and utilizing open SKY APIs®.
How FundMiner Leverages It: FundMiner is a driving force in this expanding ecosystem. Our robust integrations are already making us the complete solution for fundraising organizations to aggregate, manage, and report on donor funds. By combining Blackbaud’s platforms with FundMiner’s insightful tools, organizations benefit from a unified ecosystem that empowers teams to drive meaningful impact. For example, clients like UTEP have seen a 20% increase in overall fund utilization rate since adopting FundMiner, proving that integrated technology leads to powerful results.
At FundMiner, we are energized by the direction set at BBCON 2025. We believe in unleashing the potential of the people and organizations who change the world. Let’s continue to build technology that amplifies impact together.
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