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No '80s teen comedy hero did sensitive better than Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything... . He went from crush and courtship to heartbreak and reconciliation with a girl he'd barely spoken to when the movie opened, and in the process became responsible...
Birthdays are a good excuse to get in touch. If you have friends or family members that you haven't talked to in awhile, sending them a card or giving them a call is a great way to let them know you're still thinking about them. The same thing...
Here are last week's most popular Forums posts as well as unanswered posts: Most Popular Topics: Policies and Procedures Manual Entering revenue into RE without using the Events module Constituency codes... Events Module: Participation Unanswered...
Soft credits allow more than one constituent to share credit for a single gift without adding duplicate gift records to the database. Because soft credits are not the same as a standalone gifts, they are treated differently in Query. In a query, soft...
Not everyone has a Fenton Crackshell to keep track of their income, which is why The Raiser's Edge has reports like the Cash Receipts Journal, which is used to report on cash and stock/property gifts for a particular date range you specify. Like a...
Here's a list of unanswered posts from the past week: Thanking/Receipting Anonymous gifts Evaluating and Consolidating Fundraising Appeals Testing the Backup - How often? Assigned Solicitors vs. Proposal/Action solicitors Code for soliciting once...
Suffixes are often treated as afterthoughts, but occasionally a suffix can provide very important distinctions. For instance, there's a difference between Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra , as Jason Seaver discovered in The Breakfast Club (no, not...
Early in the musical Fiddler on the Roof , a trio of girls memorably join together in song to voice their longing for a perfect match. Although an unseen orchestra is unlikely to spontaneously accompany your gift entry process, it is possible to make...
On September 6, 1995, the Iron Man (but not that Iron Man ) passed the Iron Horse to set the Major League Baseball record for most consecutive games played. You may never have a donor who gives a gift 2,632 days in a row, but you probably have donors...
When it comes to saving batches while you're working in them, you could be Francisco Rodriguez or you could be Manuel Corpas . If your network goes down or your power goes out while you're working in Batch, you could lose loads of data entry....
The most common gift type entered into The Raiser's Edge is a cash gift. For reporting purposes, a cash gift is very straightforward - $100 in cash on a record will appear as $100 on a report or in a mailing. Stock/Property and Pledge gifts are more...
Like a Swiss Army knife , a gift batch can be used for more than one purpose. If you need to make a change to a constituent's name, address, or other information during gift entry in Batch, you can do so using the constituent window. To use the constituent...
A common request in The Raiser's Edge is to account for the first and/or the most recent gift by a constituent. It's easy to export first gift and last gift information by selecting the fields with those names in a constituent export . If you...
"Who knows what altruism lurks in the hearts of donors? The Raiser's Edge knows." Like Pip in Great Expectations , your organization may be patronized by an anonymous benefactor. Unlike Pip, you probably don't have an escaped convict...
Actions are the bridge between the sterile environment of your database and the messy world of human interaction. Depending on how many constituents you have, the size of your organization, and how tenaciously you document the telephone calls, meetings...
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