Hello,
I am wondering how other organizations are storing prospect/donor contact reports in Tessitura.
We are using Solicitation Records for campaign/designations as well as the solicitation notes area and tasks but our officers wish to capture more detailed contact information than those fields handle.
I'm certain others have this same challenge. So do you upload contact records in the Research area as a note type or as an attached document? We are looking for the best place to see a chronological history of contact and be able to print it out. What works for you?
Jayne Atkinson | La Jolla Playhouse
We also use solicitations for tracking all of our moves management. Our gift officers create call reports in Word and attach them to research documents. They might make a note in the solicitation task that says “Call Report Attached” that alerts someone to look for the corresponding call report for that meeting.
Thanks,
Marta
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If you end up using the Documents or Research areas to store information you might also consider adding these to tr_task_type so you can easily find them using list manager etc.We have task types pointing to both CSIs and Research notes for use if we ever need to store information elsewhere.
Sorry, just to clarify you would add a task to an existing solicitation that you want to store additional information for and select the appropriate task type like "Research Note Added" so that you have record you can easily query via list manager etc.
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Well we’ve tried to implement a standard but honestly usually everyone does their own thing. It takes a basic form of:
Call Report prepared by Name, Title
Development Department
Science Museum of Minnesota
Date
Text
Next Steps:
And then next steps are added about what they’re going to do to follow up. They also create tasks in solicitation of the next steps, but it allows someone whose just reading the call report to know the next steps without having to do much research. It’s our department policy that everyone emails out their call report to the department so that way everyone is aware of what’s going on in the department.
Hope that helps!
From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Jayne Atkinson Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:11 PM To: marta@smm.org Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] RE: Solicitations and Contact Reports
Thanks for the good ideas.
Marta do you have a call report template that you would be willing to share or do your officers free-style documents?
-Jayne
From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Rowell Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:56 AM To: Jayne Atkinson Subject: Re: [Tessitura Development Forum] RE: Solicitations and Contact Reports
If you end up using the Documents or Research areas to store information you might also consider adding these to tr_task_type so you can easily find them using list manager etc. We have task types pointing to both CSIs and Research notes for use if we ever need to store information elsewhere.
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