Hi, I'm helping out a friend with Raiser's Edge, who was just hired at a hospital.

She said they have 30 constituent codes, which need to be narrowed down.

Was wondering what type of constituent codes are used at other healthcare organizations.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Paula Whisted

University of Baltimore

pwhisted@ubalt.edu

Paula, the consituent codes for our organization tells us for the constituent's relationship with us or of how they became involved with us

for ex: we have :

trustees, employees, clients, program donors (they only give to specific programs) that tells us about the relationship, or event attendee (someone who came to one of our event, both fundraising or public relations), media

The constituency codes helps segregrate the individuals in the database, so we may have specific mailings just for clients, employees, program donors and so on.  or we may group giving history reports based on which of these groups they fall into. 

by the way, it's ok to have 30 constitency codes,as long as there's a logical reasoning behide each code.

We have a lot of different constituent codes, but only 7 main codes.  Each constituent record has to have one of the following:

 Individual, Hospital Staff, Medical Staff, Trustee, Corporation, Organization, Auxiliary

 We use these codes in our reports to classify the source of gifts.