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Welcoming the January 2022 Cohort of the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program
Blackbaud is delighted to announce the newest members of the Social Good Startup Program in our January 2022 cohort. As part of our commitment to expanding the Ecosystem of Good®, Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program supports early-stage software companies focused on solving problems that matter to the social good community. Since launching the Social Good Startup Challenge in 2019, and the full program in 2020, Blackbaud has supported 27 startups that have collectively raised well over $45 million in funding.
Program participants receive curated access to Blackbaud resources, marketing opportunities and nondilutive grant funding, and Blackbaud works with startup founders to design a unique plan for each company that addresses their goals for growth. Past participants have published seven product integrations in the Blackbaud Marketplace, where Blackbaud customers can find and implement the unique solutions that are purpose-built for social good organizations.
“We are thrilled to welcome six amazing companies to the January 2022 Cohort of the Social Good Startup Program,” said Lizzie Schaffer, senior program manager for innovation culture at Blackbaud. “Since the program’s inception, we’ve been honored to work with the strongest, most innovative startups in the world of social good software, and this cohort is no exception. These founders have built solutions for customers in all of the verticals that Blackbaud serves, and we can’t wait to see all the good we’ll do together in 2022.”
Please join us in welcoming the members of the January 2022 cohort of Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program:
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Brian Mohr and Jeremy Gocke, Co-Founders |
anthym is a one-of-a-kind, human-centered onboarding and connection platform designed for remote, distributed, and hybrid teams. anthym leverages the power of personal storytelling through a unique combination of life moments and inspirational media, like music, movies, and books to knock down artificial walls to help foster a sense of connection, trust, and belonging amongst teammates. |
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Geng Wang, CEO and Co-Founder, and Michael Jeffery, CTO and Co-Founder |
Civic Champs is a public benefit company with a mission to deliver the most intuitive and impactful volunteer engagement platform to nonprofits and their champions. They eliminate paper-based manual processes and promote a volunteer-to-donor pipeline—shortening time for administrative tasks by up to 85% while providing organizations with a new revenue stream.
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Kristen Gocke, Co-Founder and Steven Chuck, Advisor |
Crumb helps people donate their spare change – round-ups from everyday purchases – to creators, clubs & causes they care about. When supporters buy their morning coffee, shop for groceries, or dine out, Crumb rounds up their purchases to the next dollar and donates the remainder amounts – called “crumbs” – to a creator, club or cause of choice. It’s that simple! |
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Chris Selland, CEO |
DipJar is changing the game of fundraising with a connected, cashless donation jar and an integrated payments platform that enables joyful, engaging, and frictionless giving. With DipJar, organizations of any size can collect donations anywhere and “Create More Giving Moments.” |
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Lucy Bennett-Baggs, Founder and CEO |
Force for Good brings people, charities and companies together to drive change and make a bigger impact by tracking impact on both individual and global levels in real time. Force for Good makes philanthropy more transparent, ensuring individuals know the impact they have made on their communities. Their social network is the backbone of the Force for Good app, enabling individuals, companies and charities to tell their stories in an engaging and content rich way. They make impact simpler and more engaging, while also helping charities and supporters build deeper and more meaningful relationships. |
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Jasmine Chigbu, Founder |
GrantEd is transforming the ecosystem of higher education with their software platform designed to connect Black and brown students with curated scholarship and financial aid opportunities. Their database contains thousands of higher education funding sources for Black and brown students. As of now, all of these opportunities are curated and vetted by humans to ensure that GrantEd’s users are only matched with updated, legitimate opportunities. After entering demographic information, users will see a graph detailing their individual financial needs before being matched with their best fit scholarships and financial aid opportunities. |
For more information on the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program or to apply to future cohorts, please visit https://www.blackbaud.com/social-good-startup-program. Learn more about the impact of the program and participants’ success here.
Questions? Reach out to sgsp@blackbaud.com.