Case Study: Center for Disaster Philanthropy achieves streamlined grantmaking, faster reporting, and global compliance with Blackbaud Grantmaking (Blackbaud)

Center for Disaster Philanthropy - Customer Case Study

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) mobilizes philanthropy to help communities prevent and recover from disasters, but its grantmaking was hampered by manual, fragmented processes—emails, spreadsheets, paper files—and slow reporting and compliance checks for domestic and international awards. This made due diligence, donor stewardship, and tracking impact across many grantees time-consuming and inefficient.

By adopting Blackbaud Grantmaking (with integrations to Raiser's Edge NXT and compliance databases), CDP centralized ten years of grant history, automated reporting and reviewer workflows, and streamlined IRS/OFAC checks. The result: major time savings and faster, more meaningful donor communications, smoother international compliance, and the ability to manage 117 grants totaling $28.2M (serving dozens of countries) with a 360-degree view of grantee impact.

Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Audrey Kidwell

Grants Manager