Hi all, We are in the midst of a 100th Anniversary Campaign and need to revamp how we track Endowed Chairs and Programs. Can anyone provide details of how they use Program Names to keep track of Chairs? Or any custom solutions. Currently we're having trouble with the what is endowed. Saving the name they want is fine, but short of adding a bunch of things like Assistant Principal Second Violin to Donation levels I can't think of another way to solve this.
Thanks,Ann
I held an Open Space discussion in Orlando because I am interested in a good answer for this, too! The Open Space Book of Proceedings has our notes in the Naming Opportunities section:
https://www.tessituranetwork.com/Community-and-Events/Conference-Archive/tlcc2018archive
Besides Program Names, other organizations use Activities. I was interested to see if Bookings/Resource Scheduling would be useful for this, especially for endowed vs. per concert/per season named chairs, but as far as I know no one has tried this yet.
In a past life I created very specific Donation Levels like you suggested for a Capital Naming campaign. It was exactly as much work and as limited in usefulness as you probably expect, but it worked well enough for us, reported fine, and didn't get in the way of anything else.
-- Mike
Thanks Mike! I didn't know that Open Space document was uploaded and wasn't able to go to the conference. Using Activities sounds interesting but I think we will go with a lot of Donations Levels for now.
Love that you are using the Open Space Discussion proceedings.