Name: Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®
Uploaded: 2025-05-07T17:30:05.599Z
Duration: 49 min 24 s
Description: Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®

Transcript for "Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®": At Blackbaud, we build essential software for accelerating impact, yours. We power your critical business functions by incorporating four essential components in everything we build. Records, to manage information at scale while staying ahead of evolving security and compliance needs. Engagement, to drive dynamic interaction important actions and get the most value to guide your team to the most important actions and get the most value from your software. All supercharged with deep sector expertise to accelerate the mission of your nonprofit or foundation, school or university, or corporate impact team. It's the software designed to unleash the potential of the people in teams who change the world. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our product update briefing for our Grants Connect solution. For those of you who I've not had the pleasure of meeting yet, my name is Kayla Barnes. I'm a product marketing manager for our Grants Connect solution in addition to our CSR Connect and ImpactEdge solutions within the YourCause, kind of solution set. I've been with the company for eight years, and my pronouns are she, her, hers. Hi. And I'm Meg Radford. I'm the senior product manager for Grants Connect. My pronouns are she, her, hers, and I've been at Blackbaud about four years. Hey, y'all. Glad to be here with you today. My name is Sarah Anderson, and I am in the customer success enablement department. Pronouns are she, her, hers, and I've been here just over five years. Awesome. Thanks for those introductions. So I wanted to get us started with just a quick look at today's agenda. So we'll start with a brief overview of Grants Connect, which is our purpose built corporate community investment solution just in case you aren't familiar and just to give you a little bit of background on how that fits into our broader YourCause ecosystem. Then we'll spend some time on some customer callouts, reminders, and resources kind of at the beginning of today's presentation and towards the end as well. We wanna give you a quick reminder on some features that we covered in the fall and some resources that we think you should know about. And then, of course, we will spend a majority of today in a deep dive into our road map. So we will cover features that have been recently released, are coming soon, and those that are in our longer term vision. A couple of quick notes for webinar housekeeping. So your the audio should be through your computer speakers, so, hopefully, you can hear me. If you can't, or you encounter any sort of technical difficulties, the quickest way to resolve is going to be through a quick browser refresh. If any issue persists, we suggest switching browsers. Sometimes Chrome plays a little bit better, with this webinar platform than Edge or Safari. On the right hand side of the screen, you'll notice a couple of things. So we have a docs tab, which we'll reference here in a moment with a lot of important links that we want to have, ready for you to click into, download resources, take action on some events, all that kinda good stuff. We also have a q and a section where you can direct your questions. We do just ask that if you put a question in the question and answer section, you give us a little bit of context. So instead of just saying, when is this feature released, try to give us a little bit of specifics about the exact feature you're talking about, just because we will be moving through a lot of content today, and we wanna make sure we have the right context to give you the right answer. So before we get started, I do need to read the safe harbor statement in its entirety because this is one of our product update briefings. So this presentation contains forward looking statements that involve inherent risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. It outlines Blackbaud's current plans and general product direction as of the date this presentation was created. Functionality described in this presentation that is not currently available is subject to change at any time without notice at Blackbaud's sole discretion. It does not represent a commitment to develop or release specific features within the time frame discussed according to presented design or at all. Please make any purchase decisions based on features and functionality that are currently available. And like I mentioned, I wanted to just spend a moment kind of grounding us in what this broader ecosystem looks like for the YourCause solution. So, obviously, today, we're here to talk about grants connect and grants management. But in addition to that solution, we offer a couple of other great products. One of those being CSR connect for employee engagement that manages everything from employee giving, volunteering, and even, extra functionality like employee resource groups. And then throughout CSR Connect and Grants Connect, we have end to end reporting and storytelling functionality. So not only is this embedded into these two solutions, but there's also ImpactEdge, our newest reporting and storytelling solution that is also home to the market's first and only generative AI assistant Blackbaud Copilot, built specifically for CSR professionals like yourself. And it has been a very busy year so far across the YourCause ecosystem. We have had a couple of really fun announcements that I just wanna cover off on really quickly and that you can find links in the doc section for. So some of those exciting announcements so far. Last month, we had the chance to convene over 250 CSR professionals in Dallas for for our North American corporate social impact summit. It was a really energizing few days of connection and inspiration and insights, and we had a chance to talk about innovation on the main stage at that summit. And next month, we're hosting our European version of the corporate social impact summit in London on June 26. So in the doc section on the right hand side of the screen, you'll find a few links. One of those is a registration link for our London events. So if you have any team members from London or you yourself are in the area, we'd love to see you. And we also have a link to a press release from that North American corporate social impact summit that recaps some of the exciting innovation that we covered on the main stage. In addition, you'll also find links to a couple of other recent announcements, including our new global partner, which is expanding our giving capabilities in Mexico with Nacional Monte de Piedad, and our integration announcement with True Impact, both of which we'll kind of dive into a little bit more throughout today's presentation. And then coming soon, the thirteenth edition of our CSR industry review will be released, either towards the end of this month or the June. So keep an eye on your inbox for the latest and most robust set of CSR program data so you can uncover trends by regions, industries, programmatic elements, and so much more. I also wanna share that BDcon is just around the corner, and we would love for you to join us at this event. So b b con is such a great experience for CSR professionals like yourself and offers opportunities to network and learn and grow. Throughout the event, we will have a dedicated corporate impact track, which will feature insightful sessions led by industry experts, hand on workshops to enhance your skills, and client spotlights so you can really dig into and see how your peers are using our solutions, and just a lot of innovation sharing, and we're excited to to present some exciting functionality as well. Right now, there is exclusive early bird pricing, which means you can secure your spot at a discounted rate, and that early bird pricing is now through July 8. And, again, you can find more information linked in the doc section. And if you're looking for a way to shine a light on your success and potentially win a free pass to BBCon, you should consider participating in our impact awards. You can find information linked in the docs tab for this as well, But what you'll be able to do is choose your reward category and submit your application. Applications are due by June 13, and winners will receive a free pass to BBCon, where they'll be announced on stage to attend these and broadcast it virtually around the world. So really hope that you're able to take advantage, join us in Philly, and, put your name in the hat for the impact word to shine a light on the incredible work that you do. So zooming back in to Grants Connect, and really getting into the meat of our agenda today. I wanted to start with this brief overview of the solution. So really from application to award and beyond, Grants Connect is loaded with functionality to empower a smooth experience for all of your stakeholders. So not just for your grant program admins, but really that nonprofit applicant experience as well. And as we move throughout the road map portion of the presentation today, you'll notice a tag on the top right corner of the slides that aligns to one of these five areas just to really help you contextualize where in the grant making process that specific feature impacts. And I just wanna mention that Grants Connect can be leveraged across your community investment efforts, beyond just traditional foundation or corporate monetary grants. The flexibility of the solution really enables you to manage multiple programs with one unified platform, including the ability to track in kind and product donations, scholarships, sponsorships, and even manage the application process for employee relief funds. And it's really been purpose built to meet the unique needs of corporate grantmakers. So we've designed this solution to equip you with robust functionality that's also easy to use and empowers your administrative experience. We innovate with the perspectives of all stakeholders in mind, like I mentioned earlier, not just the grant admins, but also those nonprofit applicants. And we wanna ensure that we continue to create a solution that is easy for admins to use and configure, intuitive for your grant review teams, and easy for nonprofit applicants to use. So we also know that data is so vital to your ability to communicate your impact, improve the value of your programs. So we're constantly looking for ways to surface important insights to you in expanding our reporting suite. And, ultimately, Grants Connect is designed to save you time. Your programs are designed to make a difference, and Grants Connect is designed to help. And I'd love to pass the mic to Sarah so she can recap a couple of exciting updates we covered in our last product update briefing in the fall and just provide some reminders on important customer resources before we dive into the road map portion of today's presentation. Thank you so much, Kayla. I just wanna build on some of those product functionalities. So let's look at the application experience because we know that your side of reviewing a grant is only made better through the applicant's experience of applying for the grant. So we offer a user friendly application portal that allows nonprofit partners to manage their applications across different programs effortlessly. That ensures a smooth and efficient process for them. We also have the enhanced visibility and customizable guidelines. So program guidelines are now accessible while filling out an application, making sure that the applicants can refer to them fully and fully understand the program that they're applying for. Whether it's the eligibility criteria or just the applications instructions and process, the program object objectives, the evaluation criteria, reporting requirements, or anything else, grant managers, you can divide in a way to answer any frequently asked questions before they are even asked. We also have the application templates and custom form builder. So you're about to build your application and you're wondering what other people ask or what are some common questions because you're new to this, we have those templates to jump start the process in the custom form builder that allows you to create forms that are tailored specifically to your program requirements. We also offer single sign on for employee nominated grant programs, so that allows employees to easily nominate and manage grant requests, on behalf of nonprofits. You also have the ability to control which file types and sizes of form attachments. So don't leave it up to any questions to the nonprofit. Do I attach a PDF? Do I excel attach a Excel document, a Word document? You choose that and any maximum file sizes, that makes sense, and then the nonprofit will or the applicant will receive clear messages for the unsupported file types. So, really, all that to say, it's just the ease and efficiency of the application process in Grants Connect that makes it so attractive for applicants' ease of use. Speaking of ease of use, let's talk about accessibility a little bit, which is so important that we provide an experience that, you know, follow somebody through everything they have. We are happy to share that the applicant portal has completed a thorough third party testing for accessibility. It was testing against the web content accessibility guide guidelines also called WCAG 2.1 a a standard. It's the latest version of guidelines developed to make web content more act, accessible. So whether somebody has blindness, low vision, deafness, hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, learning disabilities, and cognitive limitations, it's gonna make it easier on them to use the applicant portal. It will also by doing these things, it also just makes it easier for users in general and compatible with different web technologies and devices, including mobile devices. This will help us support a more accessible and inclusive web for everyone as well as the compliance goals of your organizations. So sticking with the theme of applicant experience, I have talked to so many customers who are so thankful to have the end user support as a part of their subscription. So we have a full applicant support, team that frees up that time for you. So you can spend more time with your community and less time troubleshooting or answering applicant questions. So either one, our team is ready to be there for your applicants, and they have been trained on your programs, which questions they should answer, which questions they can't, and it's a teamwork effort with your CSM and yourself. So pulling it all together, speaking of your CSM, the customer success manager's priority is to help reach your goals. If you have not already, make sure you have a regular meeting scheduled with your CSM, Share your goals for the year as well as your upcoming events. We have admin workshops, not to toot my own horn, but you have seen me at the admin workshops. I love doing those where we show new releases. We also have a a series for best practices and a series for reporting to be sure you're making full use of your platform and the capabilities to make your life easier. Let's see. Sorry about that. Okay. So one of the other opportunities we have is YourCause from Blackbaud Communities, where you can connect with your peers. So there are discussion boards to connect with each other. We have resources for disaster relief and moments that matter. We have events. So whether it is the Blackbaud BBCON or the Social Impact Summit, like Kayla was mentioning, or local meetup events, or even those webinars, all those events are listed over in the community. We also have subject matter expert blogs so that you can keep up with the best ideas to keep your, program updated. And then you can also influence the product road maps by sharing your innovation ideas. So the ideas lives within the community, and it allows you to submit your innovative ideas directly to us, whether it's a new product feature, a service improvement, or a completely new concept, we love hearing about it. You can browse through the submitted ideas and vote on the ones that you find most promising. This also helps the most requested ideas rise to the top so we can see what's important to everybody. You also once you vote on an idea or submit it, you're gonna stay informed about that idea through updates on their progress, including whether they are being considered, developed, or implemented through an email. And don't forget to look for this little light bulb icon throughout the presentation today for the features that specifically came from your ideas. Speaking of disaster relief, this has traditionally been, mentioned in employee engagement, but we did one of those best practices webinars recently, and I was looking into which of our customers had disaster response grant programs. And I was surprised to find how many did for their, employees relief. So disasters are, unfortunately, they're frequent and costly. So whether it's a natural disaster or human created tragedies, we know that the time is of an essence when it comes to formulating a response. One way that we do that is through our, disaster resource team. It's internal experts that analyze disasters as they occur and pull together information and research that you can put into action, including nonprofits that we've verified are responding to the crisis at hand. We post these resources for clients in our CSR connect community to help ease the work of sourcing nonprofits that are responding to the current disaster and in line with regulatory compliance list. So make sure to check those out. Next, I'm gonna hand it back to Kayla a little bit. Thanks so much, Sarah. And as always, just to give, Megan a little bit of tea up before we dive into the road map session, we're gonna present the road map to you as we traditionally do through three time horizons. So first, we'll really focus on features that are available now and have been released since we last presented in the fall. And like Sarah mentioned, her and her team do such a great job of showcasing recently released features in the monthly client admin workshop. So, hopefully, you've heard about these features already. And if you want more information about those workshops, please send us a question in the q and a. Or at the end of this presentation, we will have a survey, and you can kind of indicate your interest there as well if you're not already participating in those. So after we talk about the features that have been recently released, we'll move on to our release preview. And these are features and functionality that we have a high degree of confidence in. They're currently in the works or coming soon in the next six months. So we'll be able to show you some really tactical information, about those upcoming features. And then we'll move on into next step to kind of round out today's presentation, and these are really key innovation themes, and visions that we have for twelve months and beyond. And as we move throughout today's presentation, we'll speak about our innovation themes and these three kind of key or we'll speak about our innovation and these three key innovation themes. And these really serve as guiding lights for our product development. So the first theme that we'll kind of focus on is modernizing the platform, and that's really focused on how we can continually make updates to, the user interface and experience updates, plus things like more mobile access and just really making a more modern experience for all of your users. And then when it comes to globalize, we're focused on how to make the platform as universal as possible while accounting for local needs. So we're focused on inclusive innovation so that you can give back wherever you do business. And our last theme is connected systems, which we've introduced over the last couple of pubs. Still a little bit of a newer theme for us, but one that we are so excited about. And it focuses on bridging together our powerful Blackbaud solutions, and YourCause solutions to bring you more data, faster grant processing, and additional capabilities. So it's not new for our product teams, but it is a newer way that we're talking about this innovation in the market. And we're just really excited to be placing that increased focus, on how we can help our collective impact go further. And so with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Meg so that she can walk us through some of those recently released features. Thanks, Kayla. So hey, everyone. I'm glad you're here today. I'd like to tell you about a few selected important features that we recently released to you in Grants Connect. So first up, just continuing on these themes that Kayla was talking about. In terms of modernization, we're working hard to modernize your grant making experience, and you're gonna hear a lot about that today. So, we've recently updated our standard templates, and we've made a lot of workflow and form enhancements for you. And in terms of globalization, in terms of globalizing, as you know, our AI translation feature allows you to communicate with grant application applicants in their native languages. And our new GDPR tool, which I'm gonna tell you a little more about, helps you stay compliant with international data protection regulations. And then on the connected systems, grants connected budget data is now available, and seamlessly integrated into Impact Edge, which will provide you with comprehensive insights and analytics. This integration will allow you to make more informed decisions and maximize the impact of your grants. So jumping right in, I wanna take a minute to highlight that Grants Connect is focused on putting the power of the platform in your hands so that you can create the grant management solution according to your vision. This means we've built more flexibility into workflows, templates, and forms, while at the same time, making it easier for you to quickly access the information you need. All of this so you can spend less time on setup and day to day management and more time on your impact. So as you may know, using standard forms and fields is a best practice because it helps you get your grant programs up and running quickly and accurately, and it ensures consistency across your projects. They integrate seamlessly into other templates, dashboards, and reports. So we encourage you to take a look at using these standard templates the next time you create a new program because it is so much easier and more powerful now. We have separated the sponsorship template into two distinct templates for you. So this means that if you don't need, CRA, community community reinvestment act input, you now have an easy sponsorship form just for your needs. And we've also made significant improvements to our standard fields. And if you didn't know, this feature is available now as well. You can edit the name, description, and default label of these fields. And this flexibility will allow you to tailor the fields to better fit your individual program needs. And continuing with our recently released, functionality, So we talk a lot about workflows, and you know that they are an essential and powerful tool in Grants Connect that helps you manage applications more officially efficiently and allows grant manage manager programs to scale without compromising on efficiency or accuracy. And our recent workflow enhancements give you even more power to manage your applications. You can now update all your user information for workflows in one place. You can perform bulk updates to set up large programs quickly. And assigning audiences to a workflow level is a useful new tool for managing your permissions. It allows you to create efficiencies by assigning audiences to multiple workflow levels simultaneously. And, also, when you create a new sublevel in a workflow, it inherits user permissions from the parent level by default, and you can also configure those sublevels to stay in sync with any changes to the parent level. And that's not all. We've been working hard on workflows. There are more workflow enhancements available, and this one is a big time saver. So as a grant manager, you can now duplicate existing workflows and use them as a starting point for new ones. This means you can easily create new workflows with similar steps without having to recreate them from scratch. You can quickly copy workflows, including all sublevels, users, audiences, settings, and permissions. So moving on, this feature is inspired by your valuable feedback about the drag and drop functionality in the form builder. So we've made significant improvements to ensure that it works seamlessly, helping you save time and reduce rework. Oh, so the form builder now will drop components exactly where you want them, so no more misplaced fields. And if you have a field that's already created but not yet in a form, you can now drag and drag and drop it without any problems. And even if the column or well has already has something in it, you can cut and paste right into that field. And I just wanted to shine a quick spotlight on the quick add tool. It's been around for a while, but it has become a favorite among our users. The quick add tool is all about making your life easier so you can quickly add and update form fields and components right from the form creation or editing page. We wanna make sure you know about this handy tool so you can enjoy a more effective experience with Grants Connect. So if you haven't tried it yet, give it a try and see if it's the how much it speeds up your form building. So we recently released a new tool that, supports our commitment to data privacy and compliance. So as part of our ongoing efforts to align with GDPR regulations, this powerful new feature will allow grant managers to manage applicant data deletion requests. So the for those who might not be familiar, GDPR stands for general data protection regulation, which is a set of laws designed to protect privacy and personal data of individuals within the European Union. So one of the key rights under GDPR is called the right to be forgotten, which allows individuals to request deletion of their personal data. So with our new right to be forgotten feature, grant managers can now easily search for applicants by email, view and select applications for deletion, and maintain accurate records with reports. And for more information about Blackbaud's commitment to privacy, please go to the privacy resource center at blackbaud.com. So on to our next feature, when a when an employee leaves your company or changes roles, we know it's important to ensure that their reports and their dashboards can still be updated and managed. So with our new report reassignment feature, you can easily transfer ownership of these reports to another team member during the the, deactivation process. This will ensure that those valuable reports remain editable and up to date and don't get lost. You even have the flexibility to reassign reports even after a user has been deactivated so you can maintain that continuous access. And if you haven't already heard, Impact Edge is available to all Grants Connect grant managers. And the newest thing is that Impact Edge now offers a comprehensive data, dashboard for all of your, grants budget data. So and there is also a grants overview dashboard, which is centered on where your grant applicants are located. This dashboard gives you a gives you broad information on applicants, programs, and org and awards. And as previously mentioned, you won't wanna miss our ImpactEdge product update briefing on May 8. So you can also find a link to register in the doc section on the right hand side of your screen. And with that, I'll pass it back to Sarah for our global updates. Thanks so much, Meg. I am loving the efficiencies that customers are gaining in Impact Edge. And if you haven't had a chance to check it out, please do. I am seeing so much data gathered so quickly and just quick insights that you can share. But like Kayla talked about before, we had a press release announcing our new partnership with Nacional Monte de Piedad, which is a top financial institution based in Mexico City. This partnership means our clients can now donate to over 500 vetted charities in Mexico, and we're proud to say that we are the only organization to offer a partnership like this in Mexico. Monte De Piedad will handle the vetting of the charities, facilitate cross border and in country giving, and ensure donations reach Mexico based nonprofits and charities. For some of these on a MVP, level, some of our clients have already started previewing this functionality in both Grants Connect and CSR Connect. And MVP is the first version of the product, not because they're more special than other clients. We're excited to expand our list of available charities, connecting your communities to more organizations in Mexico. Speaking of expansions, Julia asked a question earlier in the q and a. I am thrilled to announce that at the end of last month, we expanded our end user support system to include Spanish language phone support. This is just the first of many innovations to come for our customer support including, but not limited to more local languages and extended hours beyond the thirteen hours we already offer today. Stay tuned, and you'll learn more as we release these enhancements. We'll be communicating them through our product innovation communications and your CSMs as we continue to progress toward better support for your employees around the world. Staying on the global theme, did you know that Grants Connect leverages AI to deliver machine translations in more than 25 languages? While everyone is talking about AI as the hip, cool new feature, this has been available for over five years in the product. To enable this connection and make filling out an application globally accessible, our grant making products have machine translation built right in. With a few keystrokes, grant managers can translate their questions into 25 languages that are automatically displayed to applicants when viewing the application. We also with this update, it it allows you to save time and reduce confusion by only seeing active translation. So any translations that are no longer active are gonna, hide from the, interface. Also, we added the ability to translate custom data tables that helps to prevent errors and ensure the correct information is coming through on your reporting. Now I wanna send it back over to Kayla to take a look at what is coming soon. Thanks so much, Sarah. And I will offer a clarifying note that, unfortunately, we don't have the session booked for four hours, and we can't cover every new feature enhancement in our recent and upcoming sections. So we're gonna be offering a highlight of the most impactful items for coming soon, but we're definitely not gonna be able to talk about everything that's coming soon today. So for detailed reviews of what's included in each release, I recommend checking out the what's new section in our help content available in the Grants Connect help center. And now let's transition back over to our I think sorry about that. I'll take this slide and then pass it over to Meg to really get into the meat of what's coming soon. So over the course of the next six months, we have several innovations rolling out across our three themes. So we will be enabling the first phase of AI form intelligence and helping you with better email management features, and I cannot wait for Meg to get into form intelligence. It is a very exciting feature. We'll also be incorporating standardized location data, for better, faster searches. And we will be launching our first ever Sky API, for the YourCause product suite with Grants Connect. And so now I'll pass it off to Meg to cover these exciting new features in more detail. Thanks, Kayla. Now we're getting to the fun part. So I'm really happy to tell you about some of the features, just some, that will be coming soon in Grants Connect. So first, I'd like to introduce you to our new our latest AI powered feature that we call Form Intelligence. This is designed to help you perfect your forms so that you can make a better experience for your applicants. So Form Intelligence will leverage the power of AI to provide actionable insights that will help you create forms that are not only efficient but also aligned with your mission. This feature will offer the ability to enhance your form before you publish it. Insured so it'll be optimized for your applicants as well as for your reporting. So here's how it works. After you've created your form and are ready to publish, Form Intelligence will offer you a choice to see suggestions that would refine your form, and you can accept them or not. So first up, there will be an AI powered spell check and grammar to check your forms to ensure that they're polished and professional right from the start. But that's just the beginning. Then we'll be building out this functionality functionality possibly by consolidating redundant information to help use, make your application process quicker. And, eventually, the AI may be making suggestions that around, every question in your form might align with your stated pillars or impact area. That's one area we might go, to ensure that your outcome reporting is as meaningful as possible. So in short, the form intelligence will act as your trusted assistant to help you maximize your forms and make the whole process smoother for both you and your applicants. So this year, we're giving our APIs a major upgrade by making our APIs more robust and easier to use, and, also, you'll benefit from being on Blackbaud's SkyAPI framework. The inclusion of Sky APIs in Grants Connect will empower us to rapidly create new integrations. We'll benefit from a standard deployment model, and I will offer customer new alternatives to address their unique needs and transform their business processes. So what makes the Blackbaud SkyAPI special? So API, or application programming interface is just basically a set of rules that outlines how one piece of software can access data or functionality, provided by a separate piece of software. So this access allows you to, allows two different systems to communicate with each other and share their functionality and their data. So Sky APIs are are one way that we're gonna enable your organization to innovate and adapt to your own needs. Our enhanced APIs will allow you to connect your just your system with our system effortlessly. And one example might be, connecting Grants Connect with your accounts payable system to make it easier for you to see all of your financial data and for you to see the big picture in your own software. And, another advantage of a p using the API is it will offer you real time data. So you can have up to the minute information on grant statuses or program impacts or payments. So we're currently on a journey to modernize our APIs to Sky API. And throughout the course of the rest of the year, we will be upgrading all of our APIs to Sky. And so we are also looking for clients who would like to be involved in pilot projects for both ORM Intelligence and Sky Sky API. So let your CSM know if you're interested. So another one of the key improvements that we're planning, soon is the integration of a global standard for our location data in our system. So as you know, the first step for applicants is using Grants Connect's organization search to select the organization they are applying from. With our new globally standardized location data, they'll be able to more easily find that correct organization to get them off to the smoothest possible start. We know that grant managers wanna reduce the burden on applicants who who are filling out their applications, and this feature is designed to do just that. And this update will not only improve accuracy, but also enhance the overall user experience, particularly for your applicants. Another new feature that is coming soon to Grants Connect will help you manage your email communications. This feature was developed in response to several ideas submitted in the Grants Connect idea bank, so thank you. Our new email deliverability status feature allows you to see whether your emails were were delivered. This means you can quickly understand what happened to your emails and take action if needed without having to take the time to reach out to Grants Connect support. You'll be able to view all your emails and conveniently filter them by notification type, subject, and delivery status, and even preview the emails. This will ensure you have all the information you need about your emails in one place. So we believe this enhancement will save gram grant managers a significant amount of time. Okay. So before I pass the mic back, I wanna share an exciting sneak peek into a transformative project that we're working on. It has a much longer timeline, but I wanted to share it with you. So we're deep into research and development, and I wanted to share with you our guiding principles and goals of this project. So we wanna enhance clarity by giving users a clear mental model of how to understand how all the pieces of their programs fit together. We also wanna provide step by step guidance. So the new system will provide will guide you through each step, keeping you informed and protected from errors. And we wanna provide sort of visual insights. So you'll have the ability to easily see and visualize all the data points associated with your programs, including workflows, forms, and communications. We wanna make an intuitive experience. So we're transforming your your experience in Grants Connect to make it more powerful, and we will be leveraging AI to guide you through the process. So keep in mind that we are in the very early phases of this project, and the end result might look quite different. But one of the first things you'll notice in this little prototype mock up on the left is that we are focusing on gathering important information in the beginning of the pro of the program setup process so that we can use that information to help you narrow your choices and make suggestions to you. We wanna make this system work for you rather than you having to figure out how to work the system. So you can see here that we might ask you something like, please provide your industry so that we can tailor the experience to you. We also wanna make it easier for you by providing more templates wherever possible. So we will have email, form, and workflow templates, and even program templates. So you could click on one of these templates and start building your workflow so you don't have to do it from scratch. And the idea is that when you get to your workflow, some of the data will already be filled in for you as a suggestion from the questions you were asked at the beginning of your setup. So if you look at the right side here, this is just an idea of what we're thinking of as a visual workflow builder. So it has an all new look, and you can see it will be quite powerful. The beauty of it is that it will allow you to see all the pieces of your workflow in one place as well as understand how all those pieces of data are connected. So you you can see here that there might be rules and actions that would be applied to your workflows, and these would have the capacity to be opened up so you can see, adjust, and reorder your data. And, ideally, you will be able to drag and drop these nodes into your workflows, readjust the order of the nodes in your workflow, as well as apply conditional logic to them. We will also create a staging or testing area so you can easily see, how your workflows will function before you publish. This will give you confidence that your workflows confidence in your workflows as there will be no doubt about exactly what will happen in the workflow when it goes live. This will be an indispensable tool for troubleshooting. And although we're still in the early research and development phases, I believe these enhancements will completely transform your ability to set up and manage your programs, providing all the information you need in one elegant interface. So to wrap up, I I wanna highlight that this is by far the most exciting transformation in Grants Connect yet, and I cannot wait for you to use it to amplify your impact. So stay tuned for more updates. Thank you for your time and attention and for the positive impact you're making. And now I'll hand it back to Kayla to finish up. Thanks so much, Meg. I am personally so excited for that interface. I think it's just gonna be such a cool and unique way to leverage grant manage management platform. So we do have a quick survey that is launching now, and I would really appreciate if you could just take a couple of minutes and take it. If you have feedback for us, please let us know. We're really looking for ways in which we can improve not only these sessions and continue to deliver transparent views into our road map, but really understand, you know, what did you see today that got you excited, what's on your wish list, and just continue to innovate with our client experience at the forefront. So I'll continue to just wrap us up through this next step section and kind of looking at a few other key themes that we're working on in the last few months in addition to the reimagining workflows piece that Meg just covered. When it comes to Globalize, we will continue to expand strategically to better facilitate impact for our customers. So we're thrilled about the recent expansions into Germany, which we covered in our fall product update briefing, and Mexico, which you heard about today. And we're excited to use these as blueprints for further expansion. So House Distifton in Mexico has enabled grants for 12,000 German charities. And as Sarah mentioned earlier that we're currently a a pilot for, our newest global partner in Mexico, Monte De Piedad, and that will move into general availability later this year, enabling grant making for over 500 vetted charities in Mexico. And beyond expanding that database of non profits, we're always looking for ways to bring our global first approach throughout our solutions. So we'll continue to explore ways to make existing features more global friendly and ensure that new functionality introduced meets your global needs. For connected systems, we're gonna continue to explore all the ways that revamping our APIs, can benefit you and your Grants Connect data in better and more streamlined ways. So we'll be building out additional grants data and Impact Edge to address more of your needs as a grants program admin, and we're looking at ways to facilitate easy and automated connections for charities to move their grants data into their Blackbaud solutions like donor management and and Blackbaud CRM, RE NXT and Blackbaud CRM. So that's gonna look like more integrations to more seamlessly bring over those donor details to reduce that administrative burden on your nonprofit partners. We're also looking at expedited giving to get grants to charities faster. You can read a little bit more about expedited giving in the innovation press release that we linked at the top of this presentation, but we are looking to revolutionize the way that we do processing and donation disbursement here at YourCause, including really leveraging, the unmatched potential of the Blackbaud ecosystem. So truly at Blackbaud, we represent the biggest, collection of nonprofit and corporate customers in our space, and and we wanna find more ways to bridge those connections to help our collective impact go further faster. So with expedited giving, we're looking at getting our processing time timelines down to by 90 to 95%. So getting donations in the hands of your nonprofit partners quickly when it matters most. And for modernize, there's a lot in Zorfer Grants Connect in this area here. So as you heard from Meg and Sarah, there's several ways that we're looking at embedding AI technologies and adding more mobile capabilities, and we're not gonna slow down on those facets of the platform anytime soon. You got to hear about our reimagined workflow management today from Meg, and I'm really excited about just what's on the road map and the major areas of focus we have for modernizing Grants Connect. Like I said at the top of this presentation, we wanna give you the most robust purpose built platform that meets your unique needs, but in a way that you can use it easily. Robust features but easy to use is a big motto for us, in modernizing the platform. So with that, I just wanna give a big thank you for attending today's session. We really look forward to hearing your feedback. That survey should still be open. So please take it, if you have a couple of minutes to hang out on the line and complete that survey for us. And thank you again for spending your morning with us. We're so excited to walk you through our recently released and upcoming features, and I hope you all take care.