AppZocial Joins Blackbaud Partner Network as a Blackbaud Technology Partner and Raises $1M to Invest into Integration and Sales Rollout

SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AppZocial, providing a branded native mobile networking/community app for trusted communities including nonprofits, higher education, alumni groups, networking organizations, K-12, and churches, today announced that the company has joined the Blackbaud Partner Network as a Blackbaud Technology Partner and raises $1M in capital to fund it's integration and sales roll out. With this partnership, AppZocial joins a network of companies that provide applications and solutions that extend Blackbaud BLKB product functionality in new ways.

"The convergence of mobile and social is extremely important to our clients' engagement and communication strategies," said Chris Clinton, vice president, global channels and partner ecosystem. "AppZocial provides a seamless SAAS solution that can increase engagement, networking, and fundraising for nonprofits and alumni groups which is one of the core value propositions for our clients' members."

"The partnership allows AppZocial to leverage Blackbaud's Razers Edge, Luminate, and other CRM products to enable more nonprofits to capture dynamic data points about their members, donors, and constituents. Because AppZocial's social app encourages users to interact with each other in a fun, safe, and effective way, our clients will be able to drive deeper data analysis on their customers that they never had before."

"We are extremely excited to partner and integrate with Blackbaud to bring a new innovative solution to the market," said James Sun, Chairman & CEO. "Blackbaud is one of the most reputable software companies who understand the importance of innovation and data to this industry. Our mobile solution integrated with Blackbaud's CRM will be one of the most powerful combinations to effectively engage alumni, donors, and non profit members."

To learn more about AppZocial visit: www.appzocial.com

The Blackbaud Partner Network is a group of leading technology and services firms providing nonprofits with the solutions, applications and strategies they need to make a difference in their local communities and worldwide. To learn more about Blackbaud's Technology Partner program, visit: http://www.blackbaud.com/partners.

The Blackbaud Partner Marketplace is the world's first marketplace dedicated to the nonprofit community with products that extend and enhance Blackbaud solutions. To learn more about the Blackbaud Partner Marketplace™ http://www.blackbaud.com/marketplace

About AppZocial

AppZocial empowers and mobilizes trusted communities for nonprofits, higher education, alumni groups, networking organizations, K-12, and churches. AppZocial provides a SAAS platform that allows organizations to launch a branded private mobile app within 7 days without any custom development. AppZocial is a Seattle based software company focused on the convergence of mobile and social for enterprise solutions.

About Blackbaud
Blackbaud BLKB is the world's leading cloud software company powering social good. Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, and individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers organizations to increase their impact through software, services, expertise, and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and relationship management, digital marketing, advocacy, accounting, payments, analytics, school management, grant management, corporate social responsibility, and volunteerism. Serving the industry for more than three decades, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com.

Media Contacts

Tyler Kreitz
AppZocial
510-219-0852
tyler@appzocial.com

Nicole McGougan
Blackbaud, Inc.
843.216.6200 x3307
media@blackbaud.com

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