I inherited the gift entry position in 2007 and basically enter and ack gifts as I was instructed by the person who retired. I don't set the appeals or really have much to do with that area. The director of development and my supervisor have always been the two who set the appeals and add them. But...

When conducting annual solicitations we want to ensure that those individuals who own businesses are being solicited not the business and worse yet, we want to ensure that the we are not sending out a duplicate solicitation. We have several constituents in our database who own their own business. The...

Hi everyone, I would really appreciate some advice regarding the implementation of SPARK and how this affects solicit codes vs attributes. We can't use solicit codes with SPARK. We currently use solicit codes to mark our donors' communication preferences. I have read topics on here about the...

Hi Jeannine, This was a very recent discussion the forum. You can search based on the tag line Solict code or solicitations. We use solicit codes in the negative, do not solicit, solicit once a year, no mail: see notes, no e-bulletins, etc. Karen

Anyone have a work-around for adding solicit codes in bulk onto records that are in the system, but cannot be pulled into a query? My problem is I send out emails through Sphere and then I get a list of "Unsubscribes", so I need to upload a solicit code of Do Not Email onto these records. There...

We do it at Regional Parks Foundation (www.regionalparksfoundation.org) . As an environmental based organization, we started a "Go Green Routine" promotional effort about a year ago. We have NetCommunity as well, and have converted a number of our "friends" into paperless donors....

As JoAnn suggests, it is easier to keep the solicit codes in one format - we use the negative. Karen

As suggested in the posts, I think solicit codes is a good option. If you don't use/ haven't used solicit codes, you may want to search posts for suggestions on using solicit codes. As I recall, one suggestion is to keep them all in the negative: "no e-communication" "no spring...

Hi Joelle, We use a solicit code that says no e-bulletins. We don't mark the email as no contact because that means to us that the constituent wants no email contact, only hard copy data. If a constituent doesn't want to receive our newsletter or annual report we have solicitation codes for those...

If I had this situation I think I'd look at a solicit code of say "Do not publish". The downside is you/staff would have to remember to filter out this code when running exports/directory.