Our organization is doing an audit of our Membership levels and it led to a question about if we should consider Gala contributions (tickets, donations, etc) as counting toward Membership levels. I'm hoping to do a little research on how other organizations handle Gala contributions in terms of Memberships and thought I'd start with the Tessitura community! Does your organization count Gala contributions toward Membership? Why or why not?
I appreciate any feedback you can share! Thank you!
We have some levels for our Ball that has annual fund membership as one of the benefits of that giving level for the Ball. I had to do major clean up for our memberships too as they had tied their Ball gifts to their AF membership. Anyways that was a mess, but we finally cleaned it up. I manually add the membership to the patrons account and put in the notes that they have that membership as a result of their Ball gift. This only applies to patrons who do not already have a membership at that level. I note it with my gift officers as well as keep a list in Tess of the patrons who have received an AF membership as a result of their Ball gift. I hope that helps!
Very helpful! Thank you, Shannon.