Hi all,
We are in the midst of a major campaign and I'm finding the Program Names tab insufficient for handling the significant naming opportunities people have. I'd love to hear if any of you have creatively managed this or built out a custom tab to handle everything. An example of the many different naming types we're handling-
-Orchestra positions-Concert series and programs-SEATS in the hall (has anyone built a seat map that shows who owns which seat(s) and what the naming details are?) -Physical spaces
Also a lot of naming is permanent but some donors indicate a lifespan/expiration to allow others to step in down the road.
Help!!! :)
Thank you!Megan
Hi Megan,
We use activities to track performance and series sponsors. It works for us where program name listings don't because it allows us to track their preferred recognition listing (which may be different than their program name listing), as well as which performance they are sponsoring. We have activity types set-up to be the various sponsorship levels and we use the notes field to record their preferred name listing. It's nice because we can run the activities report and get all of our sponsors by level for a given time period. Not sure if this could be used tailored for your purposes or not.
We also did build a "performance" for recording our seat naming campaign several years ago. It doesn't record their name details but it is nice to have a master map of who named what and what is still available for later campaigns. I would think it would be possible to have a program name type that was something like"seat naming" and then to pull those using a combination of reports/lists of everyone "holding tickets" to the "performance".
Hope some of that is helpful.
Laurel Skehen