I've put together an appeal for our board. The trouble is, when board members "get" a contribution--that is, a friend or associate gives the contribution at the behest of the board member--that donor is not going to be in the list that the appeal was based on. So the appeal doesn't show up as a source when you enter the contribution, and it makes the reporting a lot more difficult.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks!
Jesse CohenDirector of DevelopmentMetropolitan Opera Guild
It really depends up what you want – the board member as solicitor could give you the same thing.
From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Amber Albert Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 1:10 PM To: McKinley, Leslie Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] Appeals and Gets
Jesse,
Yes, an outside source for each board member. Though at this time, we do not have many “gets,” so it is completely manageable.
Amber
From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Cohen Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:50 AM To: Albert, Amber Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] Appeals and Gets
Amber,
Thanks so much! So is that an outside source for each board member?
Jesse
Jesse Cohen
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The Metropolitan Opera Guild
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From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Amber Albert Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:35 PM To: Jesse Cohen Subject: RE: [Tessitura Development Forum] Appeals and Gets
Hi Jesse,
We actually set up Board appeals at the beginning of each year: Board Corp, Board Fnd, Board IG. In each appeal, we create outside sources for processing Board contributions. For “gets,” we use the naming convention “BD GET – BD Member Last Name, Tess ID.” This way we can report on all of the money raised by the Board, gives and gets, which Board member gets credit for the get (we do not soft credit gets, only gives), so on and so forth. This is the third year we’ve been using this system and it seems to be working out pretty well. If you are trying to use just one source to track all of the giving, I would recommend using an outside source.
Best,
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Jesse Cohen Director of Development Metropolitan Opera Guild
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We have all our board set up as solicitors. One nice thing about tracking "gets" via solicitations, and board solicitors, is that you have a lot of useful reports that can be run based upon the solicitor name.At some point we hope to have periodic solicitation reports sent directly from Tessitura to individual board members to update them on their progress, and to ensure that we are all on the same page.