Extractions: household records with no email address

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Our organization is wondering how other organizations manage not having an email address at the household level when you are pulling an extraction to email patrons? When all transactions and contribution are on a household record, and many households do not have emails how do you get down to the individuals email address?

Are you guys in the habit of moving the individuals email addresses to the household record? Tessitura recommend this earlier this year, but our 'house' is divided. Marketing/Ticketing don't think it is wise to put one individuals email address on the household record, while Philanthropy believes it is absolutely the way to go. 

Our organization is not in the habit of using the contact point purposes or category consistently, so those option in the extraction header are not resolving our problem.

We want to know how others are dealing with this, so I welcome your thoughts.

Ashley Elliott

Database Administrator

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

314-286-4198

ashleye@slso.org