Blackbaud, PayPal Team to Help Small Nonprofits

Nonprofit software provider Blackbaud Inc. has teamed with online payment concern PayPal to establish BlackbaudNow, a price-friendly Web site-building application to assist small and growing nonprofits publish their own Web sites and begin accepting online donations, manage constituent accounts and record donor giving histories.

BlackbaudNow is designed for nonprofits, with features such as:

* WebNow — to create an online presence and enable online fundraising, with point-and-click site design, and donations securely processed with PayPal;

* DonorNow — to track donor giving history and communications; and

* EmailNow — to support e-mail messages, e-newsletters and appeals.

As part of the pact, Blackbaud and PayPal are staging the BlackbaudNow Donation Sweepstakes. From March 30 to June 30, 2009, nonprofits that sign up for BlackbaudNow will be automatically entered in the sweepstakes. The first-place contest winner will receive a matching donation of up to $2,500, and 20 additional nonprofits will receive matching donations of up to $500.

For more information, visit www.blackbaudnow.com.

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