Hello Everyone,
We have a unique situation here at BMC, where we have several galas over a summer that solicit contributions from donors that feed into specific funds.
We were very excited to use Elevated Events for these galas, but the contributions from these handful of galas need to feed into our main Donor Benefit Membership levels, as well as have different ticketing benefits for the season based on the level of giving. (I.e. Being a Bravo Sponsor at $5,000 for the Prelude Gala gets you access to 6 tickets to our Summer Season Festival at the performance of your choosing, listing in our summer magazine, etc.)
We now know that memberships are not tied to Elevated Events in any way, as per a support ticket recently.
Have any of you found a way to do this in a workaround somehow? We're aware of how to add memberships ad-hoc but any advice in this territory is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much!
We have kind of an opposite situation where we're selling what would normally be an elevated event online through an API that doesn't support elevated events. We built a sort of fake Membership campaign and structure to take the contributions, and above a certain benefit level, we manually recreate the necessary details (e.g. guests) in a mirrored elevated event, minus the contributions as it were. It involves some duplication, but taking payments online and having them recorded in Tessitura as "Event" Memberships is working pretty well for us.
Be sure to look at the tax-deductibility output when you do this, because it might be recorded in more than one place. I mean, see how it looks in your standard tax receipts process.