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Blackbaud
A large social-impact software company serving nonprofits, education and faith communities with fundraising, CRM, finance, payments and analytics.
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theFlock connects people, care, communication, finance, staff, governance, workflow, digital ministry, commerce, AI and executive oversight through one identity and permission model.
Explore the complete platformEstablished strengths
- Enterprise fundraising and constituent relationship management
- Financial management, payments and nonprofit reporting
- Scale, security operations and a large partner ecosystem
- Institutional analytics and long operating history
More of the church, connected
- theFlock is designed specifically around the daily work and language of churches
- People, Care, Connect, Workflow and Office cover pastoral and ministry journeys beyond donor management
- Digital, Commerce and Flock AI share the same church-specific identity and permissions
- The product experience is intended for ordinary ministry users as well as specialist administrators
- You are a large nonprofit institution with complex fundraising and an established Blackbaud ecosystem
- Enterprise procurement maturity and broad nonprofit integrations are decisive
- Fundraising CRM is more important than church-specific ministry operations
- Church ministry—not general nonprofit fundraising—is the center of your operating model
- You need pastoral care, church networks, volunteers, worship-adjacent work and member journeys connected
- You want a unified experience spanning public presence, staff work and leadership oversight
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Fair comparison note
Blackbaud and its product names are trademarks of their respective owners. theFlock is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blackbaud. Availability may depend on plan, country, configuration or third-party services.
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