Name: Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®
Uploaded: 2026-05-06T16:30:20.826Z
Duration: 51 min 36 s
Description: Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®

Transcript for "Product Update Briefing - YourCause® GrantsConnect®": Hello, and welcome to today's session on YourCause GradesConnect for our spring product update briefing. I wanted to get us started with a quick round of introductions. My name is Kayla Barnes. I'm a principal product marketing manager with the YourCause group. My pronouns are she, her, hers, and I've been with the company for nine years. I'm based out of Dallas, which I mentioned because we are thick and allergy season, so please excuse any sniffles from my end. I'll pass it over to Cali. Thanks, Kayla. Right there with you here in Dallas. My name is Callie Hartman Landry. I lead our customer experience teams, which include customer success and support here at Corporate Impact. My pronouns are she, her, and I have been with your cause almost nine years now. Over to you, Sarah. Thanks, Kelly. Hey, guys. I'm glad to be here with you today. My name is Sarah Anderson, also in the Dallas, Texas area, and I am on Kelly's team in customer enablement. My pronouns are she, her, hers. To you, Terry. Hi. I'm Terry Golden, and I'm the head of product of For YourCause. My pronouns are she, her, hers, and I'm coming to you from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Thank Hi there. 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 five years, and I'm coming to you from Bend, Oregon today. Amazing. Thanks so much for that quick round of introductions. Now because this is one of our product update briefings, I do need to read our safe harbor statement in its entirety. 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 and at Blackbaud's sole discretion. It does not represent a commitment to develop or release specific features within the time frame discussed according to the presented design or at all. Please make any purchase decisions based on features and functionality that are currently available. I also wanted to cover a couple of quick housekeeping items for you all if you're new to our Goldcast platform. If you've been with us before, sorry. You'll just hear my spiel really quickly again. But audio and slides are obviously being broadcast through your browser, and I will say that, Goldcast does tend to prefer Edge or Chrome over over Safari. So if you have any issues with things, loading, you can go ahead and hit refresh or maybe consider switching your browser. There's a couple of things that I wanna point out on the right hand of your screen. You will see a chat tab, and this is just limited to your speakers today to be able to put any important messages that we wanna get out to you in there. And then to the right of that, you'll see a doc section. There are a lot of great helpful links, a lot of which we'll cover in just a moment in our kind of recent update section, as well as throughout today's presentation. And the very last link that you'll find in that doc section is our Grants Connect companion guide. This is a great little summary snapshot resource that gives you a quick rundown of everything that we're covering today, so a nice little leave behind for you. And then finally, you'll see our q and a tab. We are coming at you live today. So what we'll ask is that as you put your questions into the question and answer tab that you give us a little bit of context and be specific about what feature you're asking about. And then just bear with us, because like I mentioned, we are coming at you live, so it might just take us a moment to get to your question. And then one other thing is that, you will receive a recording to today's session into your email. And I mentioned this because this is not our only session across our YourCause and corporate impact solutions this week. We got things started yesterday with CSR Connect, which, if you're not familiar, is our your cause solution that powers employee giving and volunteering for over 500 companies. And today, we're focusing in on Grants Connect, the sister solution to CSR Connect, really purpose built and designed for corporate grant making programs. And then tomorrow, we will round out the week with Impact Edge. This is the reporting and storytelling solution that pairs with your cost CSR Connect and Grants Connect and synthesizes that data into a unified reporting tool. So lots of cool updates in that session tomorrow. And even if you missed us with CSR Connect yesterday, you can still register to attend and get a recording. So I really encourage you to check out check out our full portfolio of product update briefings this week. Really quickly, I wanna show you a little bit of the agenda that we'll dive into today. And then before we dive into this, I will cover just a couple of recent updates quickly. So after I cover those recent updates, we'll hear from Kelly Hartman, and she'll give you a snapshot on the customer experience. And then I'll turn it over to Terry to really dive into our vision and strategy. And then we'll spend the majority of our time in the road map session. So if you joined us yesterday, a little bit of this might feel repetitive, but I promise we will spend a majority of today's session in that road map portion. So like I mentioned, a couple of quick updates for me before I pass it off to Callie to talk about the customer experience. First, we have released a new vodcast, which you'll find a link in that docs tab. You'll actually find a link for all four of these right in a row in the docs tab if you're interested in learning more. This new Vodcast is by Andrew Troop, our chief social impact officer here from Blackbaud, and it's called What Fuels You. And it's really about taking a look behind the scenes of social impact leaders and seeing what motivates them both personally and professionally in this work. We have two episodes out now, so I really encourage you to take a look and listen. Next up, bbcon registration is open. We will be in Columbus, Ohio from September 29 to October 1, so we hope to see you this fall. And I also wanted to mention the Impact Reporting Network, which will be important later on in today's presentation as we really talk about data that can help you tell a story. So this is a build on of our partnership with True Impact, and it is a collaborative that we joined earlier this year alongside True Impact and Charity Navigator. The goal of the Impact Reporting Network is really to help create a system where nonprofits can easily report on their outcomes and impact and then share that data across the network, really helping to reduce repetitive asks and ease nonprofit burden when it comes to calculating their impact as well as provide, really cool data for corporate impact professionals like yourself. So like I said, we'll dive into that a little bit more later. And then last, I just wanted to spend a minute talking to you about the Blackbaud verified network. So as I mentioned, today's session is really geared towards Grants Connect, our corporate impact grant making solution. However, I know that there's probably some nonprofits on the line, so I just wanna speak to you for a minute. The Blackbaud verified network is the free portal that ties to our your cause solution, CSR Connect and Grants Connect, and it really gives nonprofits a place to see the activity that they're gaining from across our corporate customers, which is over 500 companies and 9,000,000 employees, and gives them a chance to claim their profile and boost their visibility to all of those users and companies as well. We have a lot of exciting innovation coming up this summer with Blackbaud verified network, including migrating the portal into the Blackbaud engineering system. And what this means is if you're a Blackbaud nonprofit customer, you'll actually be able to access the verified network right alongside your other solutions, like Raiser's Edge or Financial Edge and that Omnibar experience. We're really excited about that. That should be kicking off here in the next few weeks. And then we're also launching what we're calling expedited giving, and Callie will really dive into this a little bit later. But we have been innovating hard behind the scenes to speed up donation processing. We know speed to impact is so important to our nonprofit partners. And so being part of this Blackbaud verified network and setting up a digital disbursement method, which right now is ACH but coming soon will also include Blackbaud integrated payments, will help you receive funds from 90 to 99% faster than you do today. So really excited about this. There's a couple of articles in our docs section, including one that takes you to a web page that helps you learn more about Blackbaud verified network and gives you some clear direction on how you can go claim that profile if you haven't already. And then there's another article about kind of the recent innovations that I just told you about to give you a bit of a summary, an idea of how you can get ready for expedited giving that launches soon. And last but not least, I had to give a quick shout out to our corporate social impact summit that we just had in Nashville, last month. So we got the chance to gather 300 corporate impact professionals in Music City and really leaned into a soundtrack of impact vibe. So, yes, those are drum sets on stage. It was a great few days of connection, and we're looking forward to taking this forward into a few other events that you see on the screen too. So a quick reminder that our Europe Corporate Social Impact Summit is next month on June 16. It's not too late to join. And then our summit twenty twenty seven location has been announced, and that will be Miami from April 19 through the twenty first. If you're interested in joining us in London or in Miami, please reach out to your customer success manager, or to your sales representative. This event is limited to corporate impact professionals. So just feel free to reach out to your representative here in the YourCause group, and we'd be happy to get you some registration information. With that, I'm gonna pass it over to Cali. Thanks again, Kayla. Before we get into the innovation, I wanna talk about experience. Everything you'll see today is rooted in a simple mission, helping you achieve your most ambitious goals with confidence. Let's look at how we support you across every innovation touchpoint. Our teams work to ensure your confidence grows with every release. Whether you're navigating something new or scaling what's already working, every update should make your experience easier and clearer. That's why we release twice a month on a predictable schedule with release notes so that you always know what changed and why it matters. And every major launch comes with hands on admin workshops and enablement guides so that your team feels confident from day one. And we refresh our help centers with every release, putting you in control of your settings on your own timeline. And when you need us, your customer success manager and our support teams are here to help. Your product ideas also shape what we build next, which I'll share more about in a moment. All of this on a platform with 99% plus uptime because the work can't wait when you're reviewing applications, awarding grants, and funding impact work. Our responsible innovation approach has led to a 114% improvement in Net Promoter Score because we know confidence in your success matter as much as capabilities. As confidence grows, our customers often want to share what's working and help others succeed, and I wanna share how our customer advocacy programs create space for exactly that. You're doing incredible work, and your experience can help others do the same. Our customer advocacy programs give you multiple ways to get involved. As an advocate, you can get early access to product previews, pilot programs, and advocacy challenges. Our Blackbaud champions share feedback directly with our product teams, help shape what's next, and get rewarded for it. Our reference customers help prospective customers see what's possible and feel confident choosing Blackbaud directly from the change makers doing the work. You can also showcase your success with a customer story. Whether it's a blog post, a webinar, or a guest spot on the What Fuels You podcast, this is your chance to share something you're proud of with this community. To find out more, look for the survey coming up later on this call or reach out to your CSM. Okay. It's time to talk innovation. I mentioned that we incorporate customer ideas throughout our product development, so keep an eye out for the listening icon during today's presentation indicating product development that has been shaped from customer ideas and feedback. And on that note, I'm excited to introduce Terry Golden, our head of YourCause product. Thank you, Callie. I'm excited to talk about our vision and strategy and how we are innovating for the future of corporate impact. Last fall, we introduced a Refresh Your Cause innovation mission focused on turning corporate purpose into measurable global impact. At the core, that means connecting employees, nonprofits, and data through intelligent technology and responsible AI. This round of product update briefings, we're excited to build on that vision for your cause and introduce you to new innovative themes representing an evolution in our strategy that meets the moment that we are in. Intuitive technology means removing friction so administrators, reviewers, and applicants can manage and participate in your programs with ease, no matter where they are, their unique needs, or how they are accessing your program. Intelligent impact is about moving beyond activity to understand outcomes. By bringing your data together and applying responsible AI, we help you save time and see what is working, identify trends, and confidently tell your impact story. Connected experience ensures your ecosystems work as one. Employees, nonprofits, and program teams are connected through seamless experiences that deepen relationships, strengthen trust, and create more meaningful outcomes for the communities that you serve. Looking specifically at how we are innovating with AI, our goal is simple, Less admin work, better decisions, more time for impact. First, admin efficiency. AI can take busy work off the team's plate and help you focus on what matters most. Second, application summaries. AI can pull out key points so reviewers can compare applications faster and more consistently. Third, impact reporting. AI can help turn grant data into clear insights. What happened, what worked, and what to share with stakeholders. And program setup. Guided steps can help you launch faster with the right structure and policies in place from day one. Some of this is here today, and some of is coming next. Either way, we're building it with responsible AI to support confident, consistent grant making. In the coming months, ahead of releasing new AI functionality in your cost solutions, we'll be introducing an opt in step across all of our solutions. Right now, we have some interim opt in processes for Blackbaud AI and Impact Edge and Form Intelligence in Grants Connect. Generative AI is always opt in at the organization level. Nothing is on by default. If you opt in, those AI features can be available in current and future Blackbaud products that support them, and your existing controls stay in place. Settings, role based access, and permissions. You decide who can use AI and where. This process is designed for governance and transparency with the flexibility to evolve while you stay in control. And a quick note, we will talk about a lot of AI features today in our road map. In transparency, some of those AI features may be premium or add ons at an additional cost. Keep an eye out for our Blackbaud AI icon throughout today's presentation to see where we're embedding AI throughout Grants Connect. Some features like AI powered translations will not be required, the AI generative AI opt in. As we start the road map portion of today's presentation, I wanna orient you to three time horizons we will explore. We'll start with what's available now, including capabilities that are already released today and ready for use. Then we'll move on to what's coming next, highlighting areas currently under development. And finally, we'll look ahead, sharing your view into the future areas of investments and direction. Now let's start with what's available today in YourCause Grants Connect, focusing on innovations we've delivered since we last connected in November. Looking at what's available today across our three new themes, intuitive technology. We're making the platform easier to use for applicants and admins with innovations like applicant response translations, the ability to copy applications, and stronger audit tracking. With Intelligent Impact, we're focusing on better outcomes tracking with progress reports, plus AI capabilities to improve form building. With connected experiences, we'll look at how we're building faster fund funding and more visibility and more connection to the market. Let's take a deeper look. Meg will go go over to start us out with recent intuitive technology updates. Thank you, Terry. I'm gonna go ahead and jump right in to tell you about what's available now in intuitive technology. So first up, this new feature, which was requested by many of you, is the automatic translation of applicant responses. This removes language as a barrier at the moment where it matters most, when the applications are being reviewed. So when a response is submitted in another language, another supported language, grant managers and reviewers can now immediately see a clear translation. So for example, if you're a grant manager reviewing an application that came in from Spain, you can read the translator translated answer in English if that's your default language right away while still having access to the original submission in Spanish. This means far less manual effort and no need for using external or browser translations. We're also treating this as a starting point, not a finish line. These enhancements will create the groundwork for broader AI powered translation capability improvements that we will be rolling out throughout the year. This update, introduces some flexible control over how applicant responses are copied, giving teams more precision when designing their programs. So with this new field level settings, grant managers can decide which responses should carry forward and which should intentionally start blank when an applicant recopies a prior application. So when creating a form no. Or creating or editing a form field, team selected, do not copy responses selection to ensure that specific questions will always require a fresh answer. This can be especially valuable for contact details, sensitive information, or responses that need to reflect current circumstances rather than past submissions. So again, for example, an applicant may reuse most of their application answers, but still be prompted to reenter things like updated leadership information or program budgets. Oh, and this set of updates is designed to make compliance easier to support at scale, especially for organizations working across teams, systems, and time zones. So first, users and roles via API makes it possible to access user, role, and workflow data on demand without relying on repeated manual exports. And then next, we added time stamps to audit trails to ensure that actions are recorded using local time zones so activity is easier to understand as well as align across regions and systems. And finally, comment control gives the flexibility to show or hide internal notes based on your program needs, supporting environments where comments may not be appropriate or permitted. Together, these enhancements help teams maintain clean records, simplify reviews, and confidently support compliance as programs grow. And this update is a bit like spring cleaning for your grant forms, helping teams clear out what's no longer needed while keeping everything important right where it belongs. So with the ability to archive retired forms, your teams will always see what's current, relevant, and ready to use without sorting through outdated options. That reduces the chance of accidentally assigning an older form to a grant cycle, especially when programs evolve from year to year. Importantly, archiving does not mean losing anything. All historical data and records remain fully intact and accessible whenever you need them. And if a form becomes relevant again, it can be restored to active status at any time. There are no restrictions and no rebuilding required. And with that, I'll hand it back to my colleague, Sarah. Thank you so much, Meg. Let's shift into intelligent impact, which, as Terry shared earlier, is really about moving beyond just activity and into understanding actual outcomes. A lot of you have been looking for updates to progress reports. If you manage grants with recurring reporting requirements, you know how critical it is to track progress over time. But until now, every new progress report form in Grants Connect would need to be created separately, which leads to duplicate form fields and potentially messy reporting. That's all changing. Progress reports will soon support multiple submissions with each report stored separately and time stamped. You can set up recurring schedules, quarterly, annually, or milestone based, and the right form is automatically delivered to applicants at the right time. And US grant managers can see the full submission history for any grantee, which keeps the full applicant package all in one place. So depending on what works best for your programs, a year long grant could now capture q '1 through q four progress. A multiyear award can preserve year one, year two, and year three reporting with no extra form creation. This fundamentally changes how Grants Connect handles recurring progress reporting and gives your team a continuous view of impact over time. Now let's look at form intelligence, which is all about helping you collect better data before it ever reaches a reviewer. This is powered by Blackbaud AI, and it provides a real time support for spelling, grammar, and clarity as grant managers create or update forms. This helps get stronger submissions, fewer follow ups, and clearer responses coming into your system from day one. Looking ahead, we're building towards even deeper impact. One upcoming enhancement to form intelligence focuses on goal alignment, which will help you connect your form fields and questions more directly to the outcomes you're measuring. We're also looking at language translation so more organizations can participate fully without language being a barrier. All of this is part of our broader intelligent impact strategy using responsible AI to support people, improve clarity, and strengthen your ability to understand and tell your impact story with confidence. And with that, I'll pass it back over to Meg. Alright. Meg, with that, I'll pass it back over to you. Or Meg may have been having some technical difficulties. I can pick up. a little bit. is Sarah. I'm Oh, there you are. There you. are. Okay. Internet seems to be a bit bumpy today, so sorry about that. Okay. So I'll just, keep keep moving for us. I wanna tell you about, Grants Connect Sky API. So this is something that we've been talking about, for well over a year. It is our modern, flexible access to Grants Connect data that will fit naturally into the rest of your ecosystem. So today, we're happy to share that Sky API for Grants Connect is now available in customer technical preview, which means it's available for you to use. As a reminder, this API enables automatic data flow between Grants Connect and your systems. That includes keeping systems in sync with real time data, feeding grant information directly into your, analytic tools, or integrating grant pro payments and account payable systems as well as examples. So if you're interested in exploring whether Sky API is a good fit for your program needs, be sure to reach out to your CSM to start the conversation. So now that we've shared, that Sky API is available in customer technical preview, let's take a look at where that connectivity is today. So Sky API supports read access across core areas like applications, awards, budgets, funding sources, form data, and tags, which gives teams the visibility into the data that matters the most. Payments are where we've gone a step further so far, with both read and write support to enable tighter integrations with downstream financial workflows. For customers who process their own payments, Sky API can be used to write key payment data back to Grants Connect, such as payment status or invoice numbers. Also, we'll continue to expand Sky API functionality based on how clients put it to work as part of the scaling their programs. And then now that we've covered what's available in Sky API and how customers can begin using it in technical preview, the next step is to make sure that your development teams know where to go next. So all of these resources are built specifically for the developers within your organization, which are the teams responsible for building Sky API integrations with Grants Connect. The Sky developer portal is the primary starting point for those teams with API documentation, references, and getting started guidance designed for a hands on implementation help. The Blackbaud developer community and forums, provide a place for your developers to learn from peers, ask questions, and see how other organizations are approaching similar integration cases. Also, the Sky Developer YouTube channel, my favorite, offers walk throughs, demos, and practical examples that are focused on your real world develops development scenarios. I also wanna highlight BB Dev Dev Days, which is Blackbaud's annual development event, which includes two grants connect focused sessions this year for deeper technical learning. The audience for this event is really developers, but it will also be helpful for grant managers who wanna understand what is possible with Sky API. Note that the registration for BBDEV days is open now. And with that, I'll hand it back to Callie. Thanks, Meg. You just learned about our recent enhancements to the applicant and grant manager experience. Now I wanna share more about what happens after the grant decision is made with award processing innovation. We started with a simple mission, reduce the time between when an award decision is made and when it's received by the nonprofit. We envisioned reducing a process that can take months down to days. Then we partnered with a set of pilot corporate customers and 22 nonprofits to prove that our expedited giving model works without sacrificing compliance or control. Boeing was one of those pilot customers and so far has had more than $2,500,000 expedited to more than 400 nonprofits. All of those donations delivered in less than five days. I'm thrilled that expedited giving is also available for Grants Connect payments, so let's look at the timeline for when it will be available for our grants customers processing with us. We are targeting general availability, that means access to all of Grants Connect customers, for expedited giving by mid q three of this year. After our first test phase, we expanded our pilot group to include more corporate customers and more than 650 nonprofits to validate at scale, refine operational workflows, and incorporate direct customer and nonprofit feedback into the experience. Now we're in the final phase of our pilot, successfully testing Expedited Giving Plus, which will deliver funds to nonprofits using Blackbaud integrated payments in less than two days. For grant making teams, that means fewer where's my grant questions, more time driving impact. So expedited giving gets funds to nonprofits faster, and the processing portal makes sure that your team can see and manage every step of that journey. Today, admins piece this together across spreadsheets, emails, support tickets, but this portal replaces all of that. It gives your team something you've been asking for, a single place to see exactly where every grant stands, from receipt to nonprofit delivery. You get real time status on your charitable funding invoices. You get to review transactions, manage any pre funding, and download reports, all without submitting a ticket or waiting on an email reply. It's a first of its kind innovation that transforms charitable funding management into a seamless, empowering experience for our admins. Inspired by banking and fintech, this portal delivers visibility, actionable insights, and control in one intuitive interface. Bottom line, less time chasing statuses, more time driving your programs forward. This processing portal will be available to all your cause customers by the end of this month at no additional cost. Now I'm gonna pass it back to Terry who will walk you through what's coming next. Thanks, Callie. Now I wanna shift from what's available today to what's coming soon in Grants Connect. This section highlights near term area of focus that we're currently working on towards the next six months. So here's what's coming next. For our intuitive technology theme, we're focused on less friction, simpler documentation sharing, local currency invoicing, email translation, program caps, and continued accessibility and audit improvements. With Intelligent Impact, you'll see faster, clearer decisions with expanded Impact Edge dashboards, application summaries, smarter review cycles, and ongoing work on impact assessments. With connected experience, we're creating more connection to the tools you already use, like Adobe Acrobat sign integration and enhanced nomination views. Meg, back to you to walk us through what's coming next. Great. Thank you, Terry. So let's continue to dive in and talk about what's coming soon. So first up, simplified document sharing focuses on making it easier to upload, reuse, and manage files across Grants Connect. Teams will be able to upload documents once, like PDFs, images, or spreadsheets, and use them across forms, rich text editors, and other communications. All files will be stored centrally within Grants Connect, so there won't be any need to manage documents across multiple tools. This will keep content organized, easier to reuse, and simpler to maintain as your programs change. And this is a user driven update based on ideas submitted directly by grant managers through the idea portal. For our UK customers, this one's for you. Local currency invoicing, coming soon to Grants Connect, will introduce native support for introduce for invoicing in Great British Pounds. What this means is UK programs will be able to invoice in their local currency, avoiding currency conversion altogether, and with that, avoiding conversion fees. The result will be a much more streamlined and more efficient Grants Connect experience for our UK clients. As we continue building on our investment in global support, this net next update extends translation capabilities to another key part of the experience, email. So earlier, we shared how applicant responses make translations easier to review, across languages. Automatic email translations coming soon builds directly on that same approach. With this update, teams will be able to create a single email and have it automatically translated into every supported language. And this will mean no more duplicating emails and no need to wrangle multiple copies of emails across your workflows, which will greatly simplify the work of setting up and managing your programs. Today, we're announcing a new feature we're calling program caps, which is a simple way to set clear request amount limits and make those limits visible to applicants upfront. With program caps, grant managers can define a maximum request amount for a program cycle, ensuring that submissions stay within their intended limits from the start. Applicants will see the remaining eligibility in real time so they know exactly how much funding is available before they submit their application. And on the reporting side, grant manager teams can gain insight into how cap amounts are being used across the entire pool, supporting better planning and decision making over the life of that program. And next up, we're planning meaningful accessible up accessibility updates that touch the entire Grants Connect experience, and it's coming soon. Text throughout the platform is getting larger, making content easier to read and more comfortable to work with for applicants, grant managers, and reviewers alike. Alongside this larger text, we're improving color contrast to ensure information is clearer and easier to scan. This work reflects our ongoing commitment to building a grants connect that works for everyone. And as we continue looking ahead, these updates focus on improving clarity and activity in the system and giving teams more control over how information is shared. Teams will have clearer visibility into who approved and who submitted applications, and with that information, surface directly in their reporting and their dashboards. At the same time, more granular dashboard permissions will allow teams to more price precisely manage access. You'll be able to control who can create, edit, share, or view dashboards independently So insights can be shared broadly while sensitive information remains protected. And moving on to what's coming soon in intelligent impact. So what you're seeing here is our vision for AI and Grants Connect, AI that simplifies the work behind impactful grant making. We're building a connected family of intelligent capabilities that come together across the grant lifecycle, meeting teams exactly where their work happens. These capabilities are designed to support human judgment by reducing reading volume and cognitive load and keeping decisions front and center. The emphasis is on clarity over complexity to surface the right information at the right moment in ways that are easier to act on. Each capability will be purpose built, but together, they form a cohesive layer of AI assistance across the Grants Connect experience. Some of this is already taking shape today. Let's take a look at a few areas where AI can further simplify the process and help your teams focus on impact. So first up, let's look at how, smarter review cycles shows up in one of the most time intensive parts of the grant granting process, which is reviews. With our smarter review cycles, AI will help reviewers understand applications more quickly while keeping the decision firmly in human hands. First, reviewers and grant managers will see instant AI summaries, reducing reading volume and cognitive load so time is spent evaluating, not scanning for context. Now as this evolves, we're gonna we're also exploring smarter grouping, filtering, and support for both single and bulk actions on this page. Longer term, this opens the door to AI assisted review agents that help triage applications, streamline setup, and save teams meaningful time. We'll share more on that too later. One note, access to these AI keep capabilities will require opting into the Geni terms of service. The the, this prototype here shows you, exactly what our application summaries will look like, and they're coming soon. And as you can see, valuable information will be extracted from the application and surfaced in your application views to help you evaluate your applications more quickly and effectively. And with that, I'll hand it back to Sarah. Thanks, Meg. I'm looking forward to those application summaries. Those look really cool. Earlier today, Kayla introduced the Impact Reporting Network and this, oh, sorry. Wrong slide. Kayla introduced the Impact Reporting Network, and this visual shows why it matters for CSR teams and for the Grants Connect as a platform. At its very core, the Impact Reporting Network is shared infrastructure, connecting verified outcomes based data to the places where funding decisions and reporting already happen. If you wanna read more about this, there's a link in the docs tab like she mentioned. For CSR teams, this means more consistent, comparable data across your programs. For Grants Connect, it lays the foundation for stronger reporting and more impact storytelling with outcomes designed to flow into the platform, not sit in a separate place. This is the one of the ways Grants Connect continues to evolve from tracking grant activity to supporting deeper understanding of grant impact. Let's take a closer look at those impact assessments. These are how data gets into the impact reporting network. These impact assessments will be embedded directly within the Blackbaud verified network where nonprofits complete standardized outcomes focused questions aligned to their programs. That verified outcome data then flows into the Impact Reporting Network and into your cause reporting tools like ImpactEdge. And over time, it will flow directly into Grants Connect, giving you as funders clear insight into what's working, where trends are emerging, and how impact evolves over time. It's a clear, credible way for nonprofits to capture and share their impact built directly into the black blackbaud ecosystem. It's that verification with empathy. Let's shift slightly over to grant operations. And when we say grant operations, we're really talking about the visibility, understanding how your grant programs are moving, where things slow down, and how effectively your dollars and decisions turn into outcomes. These upcoming impact edge grant dashboards are designed to bring clarity to the work your teams do every single day, connecting the impact, operations, and accountability all in one place. To learn more about how the dashboards work, what's coming first, and how to use them effectively, you should definitely attend the Impact Edge product update briefing tomorrow where the team will walk you through these capabilities in detail. With that, I'll hand it back over to Meg. Thank you, Sarah. So coming soon in connected experience, let's let's talk about what we're gonna see next. So if you haven't heard, Adobe Sign will be integrated directly into Grants Connect, and grant managers will no longer need to leave the platform to collect legally compliant signatures on their document. With this update, a Grants Connect Adobe Sign account will be included at no additional cost. We'll begin by with support for sing single signature documents, which will cover the most common award and agreement use cases. But later this year, we'll expand to multi signer workflows to support more complex approval scenarios. The result will be a smoother, more connected path for the entire grant lifecycle. And we'll close the portion of this coming the coming soon portion of this presentation with a look at where we're headed next in bridging information together for our reviewers. This prototype shows nomination data integrated directly into the application view, so everything a reviewer needs is available in one place. Instead of switching between records to piece together context, key nomination details sit alongside the application itself, which will be ready whenever reviewers need it. That unified view will help reduce back and forth, shorten the time it takes to understand a request, and support more confident evaluations. And it's an example of how we're continuing to listen to you as we evolve grants connect to better support the impact you're creating. And with that, I'll hand it back to Terry to take us to the end of today's presentation. Thanks, Meg. To wrap us up, let's take a quick look at what's ahead. Before I dive in, I wanna call your attention to the survey that is launching. Please take the time to fill it out. We'd love to hear your feedback. When we look ahead for Grants Connect, everything continues to be guided by the same three themes you've seen throughout today. We're focused on intuitive technology that removes friction for applicants and administrators, intelligent impact that helps team move faster with better insight, and connected experiences that allow grants connect to fit naturally into the broader blackboard ecosystem. What changes in this section is not the strategy, but the depth of how these themes are applied as programs grow more complex. Our long term vision for intuitive technology is simple. Keep Grants Connect easy to use, anywhere for everyone. That means accessibility, clear screens, and consistent experiences as programs scale across regions and languages. This is how we're thinking about the future of GRAMS Connects holistically. For every user, more accessibility, better readability, and up to date help so people can move through the platform with confidence. For every program, global ready foundations, like the local currency support and expanded AI powered translations across responses, communications, and reporting. For the way you work, AI assistance like application summaries and smarter form guidance to give time back to your team. Looking ahead, intelligent impact is about helping you make faster, more consistent funding decisions with clear insights at every step. Ajentic AI can act like an assistant, helping sort and prepare work so your team can focus on judgment. With intake and triage, Agentic AI can flag what's incomplete, ineligible, or urgent be before reviewers ever open the application. Reviewing and scoring, clear summaries, and surface signals can tie your criteria, tied to your criteria can be generated. So reviews are faster and more consistent. Nonprofit vetting with AgenTek AI can pull forward relevant contact to support more consistent decisions. Most importantly, this stays human led. AI works within your rules and your provisions, and your team stays in control of decision and governance. Our long term vision for connected experiences is a more centralized connected admin ecosystem. By creating stronger connections between our systems, it becomes easier to run, easier to audit, and easier to scale your programs. Here's how these connected connections come together over time in the Blackbaud engineering system. Today, customers access the processing portal and Impact Edge through BBID and Blackbaud's omnibar experience. Next, in the coming weeks, we'll bring the Blackbaud verified network into that same connected experience. This is especially cool for our nonprofit part partners since it will place a Blackbaud verified network in the same space they access other Blackbaud nonprofit solutions like Raiser's Edge and Financial Edge. Then CSR Connect and the Grants Connect admin portals will also move onto Omnibar with work starting later this year. As processing, reporting, nonprofit engagement, and program admins come together, data flows more naturally and insights show up where decisions are made. The result, simpler operations for admins, stronger experience for nonprofits, and a scalable foundation for corporate grant making. To close, I'll bring it back to what you saw throughout the day. We're making grants connect easier to use for applicants, reviewers, and admins, easier to manage with less manual work and clearer controls, leveraging emerging AI technology, easier to connect so your systems work together, and data flows where decisions are made. And it comes together with one goal in mind, fueling your purpose with intuitive, intelligent, and connected technologies so you can create more impact. Thank you so much for your time today. We are looking forward to seeing your feedback in the surveys and seeing you in the next product update briefing again this fall. Take care.