Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300
Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
S. HALLE VAKANI
hvakani@wyrick.com
August 3, 2011
VIA EDGAR
Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
Attention: Matthew Crispino and Craig Wilson
| Re: | Blackbaud, Inc. |
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
Filed March 1, 2011
Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2011
Filed May 10, 2011
File No. 000-50600
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We write this letter on behalf of our client Blackbaud, Inc. (the “Company”) in connection with the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the above-captioned filings, as set forth in the Staff’s letter dated July 29, 2011. In a conversation on August 2, 2011, between the undersigned and Matthew Crispino of the Staff, we requested on behalf of the Company and received an extension to the deadline for responding to the Staff’s letter to August 26, 2011. This letter will serve to memorialize that extension.
If the Staff has any further comments, please direct them to the undersigned.
| Sincerely, |
/s/ S. Halle Vakani |
| S. Halle Vakani |
| cc: | Marc E. Chardon |
Timothy V. Williams
Jon Olson
Alpana Wegner
