I am testing out some membership reports and of course things don't seem to match up. Can anyone give some insight on which ones they find most useful? Also, when you run them do you choose to only include active members or do you include ALL members (active, lapsed, dropped)? No one else in our...

Hi, In my organization we are beginning to restructure the membership appeal codes. Is anyone willing to share their best practice or structure of their appeals? Cross posted to Art and Culture

Membership in a club is a way to promote unity and camaraderie. If your organization offers memberships, you can use the Membership module to track memberships in The Raiser's Edge. Adding a new membership is easy. To add one, go to the Membership tab in a constituent record and click new. In the...

Visiting the North Carolina Aquarium at Ft. Fisher last week was a treat. Volunteers have extended themselves throughout the Aquarium: at the touch tank, manning the loggerhead turtle station, helping to interpret Luna the new albino alligator, as well as being represented deep in the organization. The...

Here are last week's most popular Forums posts as well as unanswered posts: Most Popular Topics: Third Party Payments on Pledges Gift total > $750 in a 12 Month Period - Not calendar or fiscal year change - help Improving Database Constituent Information in Batches Unanswered Posts: Considering...

Do any of you have 2 membership programs? We use PE and RE and are considering selling memberships out of RE instead of PE. We would love to talk to other organizations doing this. We're interested in processes and reporting, mostly. Please contact me if you're willing to discuss your membership...

I looked in the help docs and knowledge base but couldn't really find this information - probably because it's something covered at time of sale - but does NetSolutions/NetMember know, when someone clicks a renew page, whether they are even an existing member? Can Joe Schmo log in and renew without...

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 Posts: Procedure for capturing additional information...

Currently we run a membership query to provide the infromation for our renewal notices but I want to start using a constitutent query with the same information so I can gloablly add an action to records. So I created a new query with the same exact criteria, the slight difference to the queries is in...

Hello, I am curious to see on average what your first year renewal retention rates are. Right now our average is about 37%, over a period of 10 years. From recent learning, anything above 40% is sufficient. If your average is over 40%, what are you doing to help keep that retention rate going strong...