Cross posting this to the Raiser's Edge Forum

 I would appreciate if any user of Raiser's Edge can assist me with this. 

How do you define government contacts or government departments within RE?     For example:   Would you give the Mayor of Newark a constituent code of Individual or Government?      Additionally, if you were to code him as Individual, would you than further segment him with an attribute of Government Type? 

 We at the Newark Museum are trying to clean up our government constituents and we are running into some dead ends.    Right now all governement contacts (ie mayors,superintendants , council members etc,) are listed under a Constituent Code of Government and/or Individual.   Then they are further segmeneted with an attribute that defines that person as part of government at the city, county state and federal level.     The government departments (ie NJ Cabinet, NJ State Assembly, Newark Public Schools) are only listed as a Government constituent code and then further segmented under the same attribute as an individual.

 Any assistance on this would be very helpful.   

One solution would be to create a constituency code of Government Contact (Individual) and of Government Body (Organisation).  This way you do not need to worry about applying an individual/organisation constituency code.  I have always viewed the individual constituency code as a catch all code and not imperative as there is the key indicator reference to determine whether the constituent is an individual or organisation.

If you need to be able to breakdown the type of government then attributes is the best place to store this information and you can apply the government type to both individual and organisation.

I hope I have answered all your questions and I have been of some help.