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Constituent Corner: Shared Phone Numbers
In The Raiser's Edge, you can use address sharing to link records so that an address change is reflected on all records who share that address. When you copy and share an address between records, phone numbers in the Phones/Email/Links grid are also...
Constituent Corner: Address Sharing
Among the Care Bears , it is Share Bear who promotes the virtues of sharing. In The Raiser's Edge, you can embrace the concept of sharing by sharing addresses between constituent and relationship records. Address sharing simplifies data entry by letting...
Constituent Corner: Aliases and Nicknames
Before J.J. Abrams rebooted Star Trek , menaced New York City with Cloverfield or got Lost , he was inspired by the Bio 1 tab in The Raiser's Edge to create Alias . While the Alias button won't turn you into a super-spy/master-of-disguise, it...
Constituent Corner: Media Madness
There were active forum threads about the Media tab both this week and a couple weeks ago , so a blog post about the Media tab seems appropriate. The Media tab is a catch-all space to store newspaper clippings, letters, pictures, and graphs on constituent...
Constituent Corner: Creating Letters in Configuration
The Raiser's Edge works well in bulk. When you need to create a mailing for groups of constituents, Mail and Export offer you plenty of options. There are times where a more surgical approach is called for, when only a single letter is necessary for...
Constituent Corner: International Flavor
In today's global environment, it's likely your organization will have constituents with international addresses. For instance, the other day, Debbie Data at Nice Things Are Good was entering a gift from Jean Claude Van Damme . This was the first...
Constituent Corner: Getting on the Right (Action) Track
Shakespeare once wrote, "To speak is human, to blog, divine." Well, I don't know if he actually wrote that or not, but I think we can all agree that he certainly should have. Like an actor on the stage, a blogger depends on the reaction...
Constituent Corner: Who Was That Masked Donor?
"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...
Constituent Corner: Create Maps of your Constituents Using Free Online Tools
This is a guest post by Nicholai Burton, author of The Patron Edge blog The Spotlight . Have you ever wanted to create an interactive map of constituents based on a query in The Raiser's Edge? One way to handle this (the most powerful way) is to get...
Constituent Corner: Making the Most of Moves Management
In the nonprofit world it is imperative to maintain your donor base. Even from the Support side, we understand the importance of donors - especially recurring donors! RE has a very valuable tool that will provide you automated options with regards to...