Case Study: School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans achieves faster payroll, quicker audits and 50% hosting cost savings with Blackbaud Financial Edge

School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans - Customer Case Study

The School Leadership Center (SLC) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that supports public and non-public school leaders across Louisiana to improve teaching and student achievement. When SLC began providing back-office support to multiple charter schools, many were missing financial reporting deadlines and lacked usable accounting systems for grant tracking and other needs—issues that put charters at risk (nearly 47% of charter failures are tied to financial problems).

SLC implemented Blackbaud’s Financial Edge, creating four individual databases and using Blackbaud Application Hosting for remote access, backups, and disaster recovery. The new system cut payroll processing from two days to half a day, reduced audit time from five-plus days to three, stopped missed reporting deadlines, and helped secure charter renewals—while costing about 50% less than a local hosting provider.

School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans

Robert Gremillion

Chief Financial Offcer