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Donations via Donor Portal
Do you ask permission from your fund creators if they want their fund 'promoted' in order to receive donations to the fund, or do you automatically make that an option for all funds?
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Donor Recognition Policy / Stewardship Strategy examples?
Hello! Here at the South Sask Community Foundation are currently reviewing/revising our donor recognition policy and stewardship strategy. If you have a copy of either you would be willing to share, that would be greatly appreciated! Most curious to know how you segment donors for stewardship: by giving amounts, by type of…
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Advice for using & implementing Nonprofit Directory
Hello colleagues and happy new year! We will be implementing the Nonprofit Directory later this year and would welcome any advice, suggestions, or lessons learned from those of you using it. A specific question I have is this: Do you have a maximum time length (i.e. 90 days, 6 months, etc.) you keep funding…
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What is the best way to enter stock donations if you do not sell the stock?
We received several shares of different stock from a donor and our investment manager decided not to sell some of the stock. If I enter the information in public securities, I have to then "sell" the stock in CSuite. Should I only enter what was sold and then enter the other portion as "other payment?" This is the first…
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Anniversary year
Hi all, Next year is our 35th anniversary and we're trying to think of fun and impactful "gifts" to our various constituents - grantees, scholarship recipients, donors, and the broader community. Has anyone done anything like this? Other anniversary ideas you would like to share? We are likely not doing a big event but…
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Help Finding a Web Designer for Donation Landing Page
Hello Compass Community! Crown Point Community Foundation is currently looking to work with a web designer to help format our donation landing page. We have over 300 Funds that we would like to organize in accordion menus with a search option at the top. If you have an example, please send the link to your donation landing…
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Best Practice for Donor Record Retention in CRM Software
I am wondering if anyone has best practices for how long you keep an inactive donor's record in a database? We keep all donation history in our accounting system but our CRM (DonorPerfect) charges based on number of profiles, so we have been culling some small batches of donor records to stay within the current bracket for…
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CSuite Promises (Recurring)
We've set up promises/commitments that have end dates, but is there any way in CSuite to set up an open ended promise for a set yearly amount? It would be really nice to have it so that we don't have to manually track an amount that the donor wants us to bill them for each year? Or are there other options that I'm not…
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Allocation of investment earnings for large intra-month donation
We receive monthly statements from our investment custodian with the monthly earnings/losses/etc. that are then put into CSuite to be allocated to our various funds. CSuite calculates the average daily balance of the fund and then assigns that fund a percentage of that month’s investment activity. Hypothetically, if a fund…