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The Buzz: March 2025 Edition!
Deadlines this week for the bbcon and bbdevdays call for speakers and the Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® PowerUp Query challenge, two new badge opportunities, a new Ask an All-Star discussion, recent product news, featured content, and more in the March edition of The Buzz! Happy March, Community! We have a lot of exciting…
Community Member Spotlight: Meet Angel Lawrence with Adventist Health
Self-proclaimed data geek and movie lover, Angel Lawrence from Adventist Health steps in our member spotlight! Read more about her life and her role at a Blackbaud Impact Award-winning organization. Angel Lawrence , donor database management analyst at Adventist Health, steps into our Community Member Spotlight. Read on to…
April Blackbaud Connect for Success Events
Register for April's Connect for Success events from Blackbaud – virtual meetings to engage with and learn from your peers.Every month, our Connect for Success sessions focus on a specific topic, with a customer success manager highlighting best practices related to the topic to get the conversation started. The topics are…
Welcome to the New Blackbaud Community
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testing C#
using System; class Program { // Method to check if a string is a palindrome static bool IsPalindrome(string input) { string reversed = new string(input.ToCharArray().Reverse().ToArray()); return input.Equals(reversed, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase); } static void Main() { string[] testStrings = { "radar", "hello",…
testing javascript
// Function to test if a number is even or odd function isEven(number) { return number % 2 === 0; } // Test cases const testNumbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 10, 15]; testNumbers.forEach(num => { const result = isEven(num) ? 'even' : 'odd'; console.log(`Number ${num} is ${result}.`); });
testing html
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Test Page</title> <style> body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 40px; } #output { margin-top: 20px; color: green; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Testing Scenario</h1> <form id="testForm"> <label for="inputText">Enter something:</label> <input…
SQL for Pledge payment writeoff
SELECT g.id AS 'Gift System ID',CAST(g.dte AS DATE) AS 'Pledge Date',g.amount AS 'Pledge Amount', paywo.pay AS 'Total Payment',paywo.wo AS 'Total Write Off' FROM gift AS g LEFT JOIN ( SELECT pp.pledgeid, SUM(CASE WHEN g.type<>21 THEN pp.amount ELSE 0.00 END) AS pay, SUM(CASE WHEN g.type=21 THEN pp.amount ELSE 0.00 END) AS…
Test Discussion
need more SKY API @https://community.blackbaud.com/blogs/13/9278 test image @Crystal Bruce
Customer Success vs. Account Manager
I have these really helpful slides from a BB hosted user group that folks might find helpful
CAJ Test 002
This time with PHOTOS! This is an error I got when clicking on my mail (envelope) button. But I could click the alarm bell and see that @Daniel R. Snyder sent me a message. I was able to respond to that message. @Crystal Bruce thought you might want to see the error message.
CAJ Test 001
Trying out the new community by posting.
Testing_bulleted and ordered lists
Yes Bullets Work But that functionality is not intuitive to me Would be more obvious As an icon in the bottom Like the emoji and image buttons And there are a TON of categories in the drop-down menu when creating a new discussion.
AS-Testing creating a discussion to be marked as spam
I hope this doesn't hurt me in the end! #scared #nervous #doitforcrystal @Crystal Bruce

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