Smarter Tools for Your Impact: What’s New in Impact Edge

Main Takeaways:

• Impact Edge now includes a new Charity Discovery Tool that enables users to efficiently explore and assess nonprofits through interactive dashboards featuring detailed charity profiles and impact metrics.
• The Goals and Metrics feature empowers organizations to define and track success with precision, allowing for custom dashboards tailored to critical KPIs and strategic planning across different company divisions.
• Deeper intelligence powered by Blackbaud AI enhances Impact Edge with natural-language queries and narrative responses, streamlining insights gathering and impact communication without the need for manual reporting.
• New dashboards for Groups and Giving Campaigns provide CSR teams with tools to analyze performance and engagement, enabling strategic planning and the amplification of organizational impact through data insights.

At YourCause, we believe that CSR professionals deserve tools as inspiring as the impact they create. That’s why we’ve been hard at work expanding the capabilities of Impact Edge, our unified reporting solution built for CSRconnect and GrantsConnect customers. This fall, we’re rolling out a suite of new features that make it easier than ever to explore, measure, and amplify your social impact.

From smarter dashboards to AI-powered enhancements, these innovations reflect our commitment to helping organizations turn purpose into measurable progress.

For each charity, users can view predicted cost per outcome powered by True Impact, program-level metrics, transparency seals, and detailed community investment data including donations, awards, and volunteer hours. This centralized experience reduces time spent on external research and positions Impact Edge as the go-to platform for strategic funding and partnership decisions. Whether you’re evaluating grant applicants or identifying new partners, the Charity Discovery Tool helps you make faster, more informed decisions.

Discover and Evaluate Charities with Confidence

Impact Edge’s new Charity Discovery Tool streamlines nonprofit research by surfacing detailed charity profiles, program data, and impact metrics, all in one interactive dashboard that is complimentary for our customers.

The Charity Discovery Tool transforms how organizations explore and assess nonprofits. Users can navigate an interactive map to locate charities by primary address or program region, and apply filters based on Candid’s Philanthropic Classification System, covering both subject and population levels.

Set Smarter Goals with Impact Edge

The new Goals and Metrics feature empowers organizations to define what success looks like, and track it with precision. Whether you’re monitoring monthly volunteer targets or aligning goals to CSR pillars, this dashboard helps teams be more intentional and data-driven in their impact strategies.

Users can create custom dashboards aligned to their most critical KPIs, filter metrics by timeframes (past and future), and segment data using HR file attributes like department, division, and location. This functionality supports both tactical tracking, like monthly volunteer targets, and long-term strategic planning, with visibility of engagement across the company.

Increasing Intelligence in Blackbaud AI

Impact Edge now features deeper intelligence powered by Blackbaud AI, designed to help CSR teams uncover insights faster and communicate impact more effectively. With enhanced contextual understanding, users can ask natural-language questions and receive rich, narrative responses—no dashboards or manual reporting required.

These updates also introduce the ability to transform raw CSR data into exportable charts and graphs, making it easier to visualize performance and share results with stakeholders. Whether you’re preparing for a board presentation or reflecting on program outcomes, Blackbaud AI equips you with the clarity and tools to tell a stronger story.

Deeper Insights into Giving and Groups

We’ve recently added a new Groups Dashboard and will soon release updates to our Giving Campaign Dashboard in Impact Edge to help CSR teams analyze fundraising performance and employee engagement. These dashboards spotlight high-performing groups, track campaign trends, and support both strategic planning and real-time decision-making.

The Giving Campaign Dashboard visualizes fundraising progress and regional trends, while the Groups Dashboard highlights join rates, participation levels, and attrition patterns. Together with our numerous other Impact Dashboards, they help organizations uncover what’s working, where to improve, and how to amplify impact across their workforce.