What is the Joshu Blackbaud connection?

Joshu connects to Blackbaud through official OAuth. It looks up gifts and memberships in Raiser's Edge NXT, checks payment transactions, and adds gifts to an open gift batch when you approve. You work with an assistant who has a desk, a computer, and persistent memory, not a complex database that requires extensive report generation for basic answers.

Is my donor data secure?

Yes. Every Joshu runs in its own isolated, sandboxed cloud computer. Gift details, membership records, and payment data Joshu reads stay in that private sandbox. Joshu only accesses data you authorize, and your data is never used to train public AI models.

Will Joshu alter donation records without asking?

No. Adding gifts to a batch waits for your approval. Joshu looks up gifts, memberships, and payment transactions on its own.

What can Joshu access in Blackbaud?

Only the Blackbaud environments approved during OAuth sign-in. The connection reads gifts, memberships, and payment transactions by their record ID, and it can add gifts to an existing open batch. It cannot search constituents, list campaigns, or edit existing records.

What is the difference between Blackbaud reports and Joshu?

Blackbaud reports require building and exporting static spreadsheets. Joshu is an assistant with long-term memory across Blackbaud, your email, calendar, files, and past conversations. It connects incoming donor emails to the gifts and memberships they mention and prepares notes before stewardship calls.

Do I need a paid plan?

Joshu is $95 a month after a 14-day free trial. That includes your sandboxed cloud computer, a dedicated US phone number, an @joshu.me email address, persistent memory across your tools, and all tool connectors, including Blackbaud. There are no token fees. Paid data and media APIs from the tool catalog are extra, paid per call from a prepaid usage wallet.

AI assistant for Blackbaud

Connect Blackbaud so Joshu can look up gifts, memberships, and payments in Raiser's Edge NXT and add gifts to a batch with your approval.

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Joshu's office: AI assistants at their desks, ready to work in Blackbaud

What you can ask Joshu in Blackbaud

You: What are the details of gift 48213 in Raiser's Edge NXT?
Joshu retrieves the gift record and quotes the donor, amount, gift type, status, and gift date.
You: Add yesterday's three event donations to this week's open gift batch.
Joshu extracts the donor names and amounts from your email thread, prepares the gifts, and holds them for your approval before adding them to the batch.
You: Is the membership on this renewal notice still active?
Joshu looks up the membership record by its ID and tells you the program, status, and expiration date.

Gifts, memberships, and payment transactions in Blackbaud connect to your daily donor email and board preparation.

What Joshu does

Joshu looks up records in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT when you give it a gift or membership ID. It quotes gift amounts and dates, checks whether a membership is active or lapsed, and confirms the status of a payment transaction. When new donations arrive by email, Joshu prepares the gifts and adds them to an open gift batch after you approve.

What you do

Connect your Blackbaud account using OAuth. Joshu asks you to approve each gift before it goes into a batch.

Why it sticks

Nonprofit staff spend time opening Raiser's Edge just to check one gift or one membership. Joshu handles those lookups in the same thread where the question came up.

Permissions and limits

Joshu accesses Blackbaud through Composio-managed OAuth. It can read gifts, memberships, and payment transactions by ID and add gifts to an open batch according to assigned roles. It cannot search constituents, create constituent records, or edit or delete existing gifts. It cannot add gifts to a batch without explicit confirmation.

Frequently asked questions

: Joshu connects to Blackbaud through official OAuth. It looks up gifts and memberships in Raiser's Edge NXT, checks payment transactions, and adds gifts to an open gift batch when you approve. You work with an assistant who has a desk, a computer, and persistent memory, not a complex database that requires extensive report generation for basic answers.
: Yes. Every Joshu runs in its own isolated, sandboxed cloud computer. Gift details, membership records, and payment data Joshu reads stay in that private sandbox. Joshu only accesses data you authorize, and your data is never used to train public AI models.
: No. Adding gifts to a batch waits for your approval. Joshu looks up gifts, memberships, and payment transactions on its own.
: Only the Blackbaud environments approved during OAuth sign-in. The connection reads gifts, memberships, and payment transactions by their record ID, and it can add gifts to an existing open batch. It cannot search constituents, list campaigns, or edit existing records.
: Blackbaud reports require building and exporting static spreadsheets. Joshu is an assistant with long-term memory across Blackbaud, your email, calendar, files, and past conversations. It connects incoming donor emails to the gifts and memberships they mention and prepares notes before stewardship calls.
: Joshu is $95 a month after a 14-day free trial. That includes your sandboxed cloud computer, a dedicated US phone number, an @joshu.me email address, persistent memory across your tools, and all tool connectors, including Blackbaud. There are no token fees. Paid data and media APIs from the tool catalog are extra, paid per call from a prepaid usage wallet.