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BrightVine Data Link for Raiser's Edge NXT
The wait is over—BrightVine Data Link, the trusted integration tool used by 75% of Blackbaud CRM customers like Habitat for Humanity International, The Salvation Army, UNICEF USA, and others, is now available for Raiser’s Edge NXT!
One of the biggest challenges nonprofit teams face is data integration. Whether it's importing new donors, syncing gifts and revenue updates, or logging interactions, the need for reliable and secure integration is constant.
BrightVine Data Link for RENXT makes it easy. This powerful integration engine helps nonprofits streamline data management by connecting Raiser’s Edge NXT with other critical systems—like email marketing, online giving platforms, student systems, and more—without relying on a BrightVine Cloud. You maintain complete control over your data and who can access it and where it resides!
BrightVine Data Link for RENXT
No Per Import or Per App Fees?
DataLink is a flat annual fee for unlimited imports and users
Requires Technical
Experience?
Customer Support
Managed Services
No coding required—built for end-users. For organizations with more advanced tech teams, custom flows can be created in PowerApps.
Let our team be your second set of hands - our team can run your imports, manage integrations, and provide the services you need to focus on your mission.
No bots, no AI-generated answers. Real humans, real support. We offer two levels of support to meet the needs of different organizations.
Admin Center
Manage all your imports in one spot.
Best of Breed Platform
Built on trusted platforms. As a Microsoft Partner, we designed BVDL for RENXT using Microsoft Dataverse, PowerApps, and we've utilized the Blackbaud SKY APIs for best-in-class integration.
Common Integrations: This is not an exhaustive list; please check with BrightVine for more information.
Data Link for Raiser's Edge - Key Benefits
BVDL integrates directly with RENXT using SKY APIs, ensuring a secure, efficient, and automated data management process with no need for third-party clouds.
✅ Time & Cost Savings – Automate and simplify imports
✅ Full Transparency: Full visibility into staged records, import history, and error logs.
✅ Security & Control – Data stays within your Microsoft and Blackbaud environments and never goes to BrightVine
✅ Scalability & Flexibility – Grows with your nonprofit’s evolving needs
✅ Improved Data Quality – Maintain clean, accurate, and unified data. Intelligent configurations reduce duplicates by matching to existing records.
✅ Accuracy First: Review and validate data before storing it in your database. Catch errors, duplicates, and missing values upfront
🚀 100% Built for Nonprofits – Designed specifically for Raiser’s Edge NXT users
🚀 No Third-Party Cloud Storage – Your data remains fully secured and encrypted
🚀 User-Friendly Interface – Easily monitor and troubleshoot imports in RENXT
🚀 Scalable & Adaptable – Supports medium to large data sets with moderate to complex data need
Data Link for Raiser's Edge
Data Link In Action
UNICEF USA & Kids in Need of Desks
Kids in Need of Desks (K.I.N.D.) campaign, launched by UNICEF USA and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, delivers desks to hundreds of African schools. K.I.N.D. also provides secondary school scholarships to Malawian girls who are most likely to miss out on an education. O'Donnell promotes his K.I.N.D campaign during the holidays and solicits donations for MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Every day, large volumes of transactions are processed using the Data Link, allowing UNICEF USA and O'Donnell to report near real-time fundraising results on his nightly show. UNICEF USA uses the Data Link to integrate numerous systems.
CVENT Event Integration with Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a national animal welfare organization focused on helping the U.S. become a no-kill nation by 2025. From its roots at the largest no-kill companion animal sanctuary in Kanab, UT, to its many regional programs around the country, Best Friends has cultivated a strong base of supporters nationwide.
Best Friends hold a conference attended by 1,600+ people, to give attendees the chance to learn, share, and connect with like-minded animal lovers from around the world.
For both attendees and staff, a seamless registration experience was a must. Best Friends Animal Society used Cvent™ event management software for this purpose and engaged BrightVine in early 2018 to assist with direct integration between Cvent™ and their Blackbaud CRM™ donor management system. The direct connection between Blackbaud CRM and Cvent saved staff time since retrieving files was no longer necessary, and the events team could trust that the information visible in Blackbaud CRM™ was always current. The breadth of the incoming data was on the complex side, incorporating requirements that were not possible to accomplish using out-of-the-box import in Blackbaud CRM™. These included:
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Creation of new constituents with contact information, relationships, and other biographical information
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Updates to existing constituent data (such as new contact information)
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Single & group event registration
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Ability to add additional payments for things like bus fees, site tours, additional sessions, or additional donations
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Refunds, partial refunds, cancellations, and other revenue updates
Superbowl & The University of Wisconsin
WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil's dog, Scout, was featured in a SuperBowl ad following Scout's cancer survivor journey. It celebrated the work being done at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and encouraged viewers to donate. This was a wonderful opportunity for the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the School of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Wisconsin. Being featured in a Super Bowl ad resulted in a high volume of transactions. The University used the Data Link to import all of the contributions made to that campaign. It saved the organization staff time and allowed for quick reporting to all campaign stakeholders.
