Blackbaud Named Governance Team of the Year in Governance Intelligence's Annual Corporate Governance Awards
- Blackbaud's recognition as the Governance Team of the Year validates the company's governance competencies, policies, and practices, reflecting a high priority in serving the best interest of the company and its stakeholders.
- The award underscores Blackbaud's dedication to accelerating social impact and driving value for all stakeholders through its corporate governance efforts.
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The Corporate Governance Awards recognize outstanding achievements in governance, risk and compliance
"We are honored to be recognized as the Governance Team of the Year for our achievements over the past year," said Andrew Leitch, chairman of the Blackbaud board of directors and the nominating and corporate governance committee. "We consider effective corporate governance as a foundation for success and consider this award as an independent validation of our governance competencies, our policies and practices. The board of directors sets our governance policies and effectively executes such policy through an efficient partnership with senior management as a high priority in serving the best interest of the company and its stakeholders."
The Corporate Governance Awards celebrate outstanding achievements by the governance profession in areas such as hosting annual general meetings (AGMs), compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, use of technology, proxy statements, investor engagement and corporate transactions. A total of 42 separate companies were short-listed for their work.
The winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and announced at an in-person ceremony on Wednesday, November 8, in
"As a company powered by purpose, Blackbaud is dedicated to doing more than just delivering essential software. We're also accelerating our social impact and driving value for all our stakeholders through our corporate governance efforts," said Jon Olson, general counsel, Blackbaud. "We're honored to be recognized for our corporate governance program, alongside other leading public companies."
More information about the awards and the full list of winners can be found here.
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