We are curious how other organizations manage "In Memory Of" and "In Honor Of" gifts. We currently soft credit them to the honoree and use an "Honor/Memorial" appeal. Even with the dedicated appeal it is sometimes tricky to pull accurate total giving for the creditee so we are considering doing away with the IMO/IHO soft crediting and just adding a note to the contribution who the gift is in honor of. Before making any changes we are wondering how other organizations manage their IMO/IHO gifts, specifically if you use soft credits or not. Thanks.
At Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, we book all of our honor and memorial gifts to the Miscellaneous appeal, with individual sources created for each honoree or person being memorialized. Each gift gets a designation as a memorial gift of an honor gift. We don't soft credit the honoree.