Contributions In Honor/In Memory Of ...

Jesse

At the Met, we have an appeal and source code for tracking the In Memory gifts.  The appeal is in our Misc campaign.   The money is posted to donors requests.  If nothing specific is requested then it is deposited to the annual general fund.   

If we have a large number of gifts made in a person’s honor or “in memory of”  a special source code is set up to track these specific gifts.

Recently (within the month), we have designed a custom tab to track the various information surrounding these gifts.  The corresponding report is used to provide data for mail merge letters. 

We have also set up an Association type to link records if applicable.

Leslie M. McKinley

Director, Development Finances

Is there a best practice for processing contributions from one person in honor or in memory of someone else? I see on the forums that some groups have built custom fields for this purpose. I also know that one can apply membership benefits in honor of a third party--but I'm not sure that would work in the case of "in memory of" someone.

Thanks!

Jesse Cohen

Director of Development and Communications

The Metroptolitan Opera Guild

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Leslie,

Thanks! So where do you put the information about the deceased? Is it a note in the Contribution Entry?

Jesse

Jesse

At the Met, we have an appeal and source code for tracking the In Memory gifts.  The appeal is in our Misc campaign.   The money is posted to donors requests.  If nothing specific is requested then it is deposited to the annual general fund.   

If we have a large number of gifts made in a person’s honor or “in memory of”  a special source code is set up to track these specific gifts.

Recently (within the month), we have designed a custom tab to track the various information surrounding these gifts.  The corresponding report is used to provide data for mail merge letters. 

We have also set up an Association type to link records if applicable.

Leslie M. McKinley

Director, Development Finances

Is there a best practice for processing contributions from one person in honor or in memory of someone else? I see on the forums that some groups have built custom fields for this purpose. I also know that one can apply membership benefits in honor of a third party--but I'm not sure that would work in the case of "in memory of" someone.

Thanks!

Jesse Cohen

Director of Development and Communications

The Metroptolitan Opera Guild

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Yes it all went in the note field- now it will be entered into the custom tab record

We send acknowledgement letters to the donor with a copy of the card we sent to the family of the honored/memorialized individual announcing that “Mary Smith has made generous gift in honor/in memory of John Doe”

We're also looking at this issue as we work on improving the way we acknowledge gifts in memory/in honor of someone.

Specifically, does anyone else send an acknowledgment to the honoree?  If so, do you use Tessitura to accomplish this?

As far as recording the gifts, we currently set up a separate account for 'gifts in honor/memory of John Doe' and soft credit that account as an honoree.  For a gift membership, we just soft credit the account of the person receiving the membership (gift membership is also a creditee type).