As part of our last capital campaign, donors could have spaces named depending on their giving level. There wasn't any particular appeal for this. Some chose specifically to give a set amount in order to name a space, and other top donors were presented with various special naming opportunities befitting their level. As such, there isn't a specific source code tied to an appeal. However, we want to record both the ask and those who chose to name spaces in Tessitura. Luckily, the gift officer has a very thorough manual spreadsheet with the details.
My question would be, where should we actually record this info? My gut reaction is to record named spaces as an attribute where the attribute type is Named Space, and then the details are the name of the space itself. Does this make sense, or is there a better way to accomplish this?
I'm glad you asked this question, I'm interested in how other organizations have tracked this, both for smaller levels of recognition (such as a brick on a walkway) or larger levels (such as a performing venue/stage). My initial thought was to use Designations. Depending on how your organization currently utilizes them, you could create a new Designation called "Named Space" and then within the gift notes or the Custom Data tab of the note, you could record more details about the naming. This way you could easily report on exactly which gifts earned the donor their naming rights. You could save further details, such as an image of the space or special requests, within Research. Best of luck!
We considered this, but for many of the donors there wasn't 1 gift that gave them naming rights. Over the course of the multi-year capital campaign they hit thresholds through multiple gifts. Many of the gifts were also not specifically for the purpose of naming a space or they had other designations attached. I can see how that would work well for something like a Brick campaign though.