Changing Membership Organizations

I agree with Rey; unless you have a Tessitura-driven reason to change your membership org, leave it alone, or you lose some tracking ability and make reporting harder on yourself.  The customer doesn't even know what a Membership Org is, so just because you're changing how you organize your levels doesn't mean the membership org has to change.  Our basic and supporting memberships are handled completely separately in different departments, but are still in one membership organization so that we can do easy tracking between the sets of levels.

You might also want to check out the conference archives for this year's conference; the "using memberships" session had one group present about why they combined multiple membership orgs into one, and another present about why they split one membership org into many.  You'll want the 2nd and 3rd slide decks in the presentation; the first one (written by me, so I'm allowed to say this!) is more basic than you'll want.

Beth

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From: "A. Rey Pamatmat" <bounce-areypamatmat2177@tessituranetwork.com>
To: bvarro@smm.org
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 9:11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] Changing Membership Organizations

Hey Maureen,

 

It’s important to keep in mind whether you want people to upgrade from the lower five levels to the upper three. If so, I think you’d be better off NOT splitting them into 2 organizations. We separate our partners from our major donors simply by changing the membership category and the constituency assigned to them. In other words, our Partners ($1,000 – 9,999) and Producer’s Circle ($10K+) levels are all in one membership organization but the first group are assigned to the Public Theater Partner Category with a “PTP” constituency and the second group are assigned to the Producer’s Circle Category with a “PC” constituency.

 

So I would recommend just inserting the $15K level and altering your categories and constituencies.

 

Rey

 

From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Maureen Woodall
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:17 PM
To: Rey Pamatmat
Subject: [Tessitura Development Forum] Changing Membership Organizations

 

Until this year, our annual donors of $1000 or more were in a single membership organization with 7 levels (starting at $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, $3,000, $5,000, $10,000, and $25,000).

Now we're splitting this organization into two. The 5 lowest levels ($1000, $1500, $2000, $3000, and $5000) will continue to be called President's Circle. Our new Impresario Circle will have 3 levels: $10,000, $15,000, and $25,000.

I'd appreciate advice on the best ways to set up the new membership organization and remove the top levels from the old President's Circle organization. Are there any particular pitfalls to watch for?

Thank you!

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