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g through Web pages and email give the company’s customers the essentials for building sustainable donor relationships. Customers can also purchase additional modules, including TeamRaiser, which allows nonprofits constituents to create personal or team fundraising Web pages and send email donation appeals in support of events, such as a walks, runs, and rides. Blackbaud NetCommunity: Blackbaud NetCommunity is an Internet marketing and communications tool that enables organizations that utilize the Raiser's Edge software to build interactive Websites and manage email marketing campaigns. With Blackbaud NetCommunity, organizations can, among other things, establish online communities for social networking among constituents and also provide a platform for online giving, membership purchases and event registration. Sphere eMarketing: Sphere eMarketing, delivered as SaaS, provides organizations with an integrated system of applications to manage e-marketing, communications, programs, services and online fundraising. Sphere eMarketing enables an organization's volunteers, members, donors and staff to share real-time data and information in an online community to manage constituent relationships. Sphere eMarketing is designed to help organizations manage targeted email campaigns. Everyday Hero: Everyday Hero is an event-driven Web-based fundraising solution in Asia-Pacific and the United Kingdom. The Everyday Hero solution is focused on meeting the peer-to-peer fundraising needs of nonprofits internationally. It is a donor acquisition tool, and helps nonprofits in the Asia-Pacific and the United Kingdom connect with a younger, more online-focused generation of donors. Financial Management The Financial Edge: The Financial Edge is an accounting solution designed to address the specific accounting, analytical and financial reporting needs of nonprofit organizations. It integrates with The Raiser's Edge to simplify gift entry processing and relate information from both systems in an informative manner to eliminate redundant tasks. The Financial Edge provides nonprofit organizations with the means to help manage fiscal and fiduciary responsibility, enabling them to be accountable to their constituents. In addition, The Financial Edge is designed specifically to meet governmental accounting and financial reporting requirements prescribed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and Governmental Accounting Standards Board. School Management The Education Edge: The Education Edge is a student information management system designed principally to organize an independent school's admissions and registrar processes, including capturing detailed student information, creating class schedules, managing attendance and performance/grades records, producing demographic, statistic, and analytical reports and printing report cards and transcripts. Blackbaud's Student Information System: Blackbaud's Student Information System is a software solution designed for small colleges and other institutions of higher education with a full-time enrollment of approximately 5,000. The solution links student information across all campus offices and includes functionality designed specifically to organize the admissions and registrar's processes. Blackbaud's Student Information System helps significantly reduce time spent on data maintenance and creation of class schedules and allows institutions to communicate with prospects, students and alumni. Ticketing The Patron Edge: The Patron Edge is a ticketing management solution specifically designed to help large or small performing arts organizations, museums, zoos and aquariums increase attendance and revenue. The Patron Edge can be integrated with The Raiser's Edge to allow for a profile view of patrons, donors or visitors. General Admissions Management Altru: Altru is an arts and cultural solution suite provided to the company’s customers as a SaaS offering. Altru helps general admissions arts and cultural organizations gain a clear, 360-degree view of their organization, operate, engage and cultivate patrons and supporters, streamline external and internal communicati