Recording a gift of "something" in our school's honor

Cristina Torruella · December 2017

I would appreciate some help.

A constituent purchased the "Gift of an Ark" from Heifer International in our school's honor. I would love some advice on how to record it.

Thanks!

Katie Vitale 2 · December 2017

Cristina Torruella:

I would appreciate some help.

A constituent purchased the "Gift of an Ark" from Heifer International in our school's honor. I would love some advice on how to record it.

Thanks!

I would put that in as an in kind gift if at all.

JoAnn Strommen · December 2017

If the gift was "in honor of your school" and you received no $ or in-kind gift I don't know that I'd record it at all. Trying to read between the lines and it sounds like they made a gift in your honor to another organization.

If you physically receive an "Ark" then GIK.

Joanne Felci 2 · December 2017

I would agree with JoAnn that there isn't a reason to add this as a gift

If what you are trying to achieve is record that the donor did this, I would do that in a note, so if this is an assigned donor or any type of relationship building is happening this information is captured, but it does not make sense to list it as a gift

If you want to thank the donor for doing this, you could still do that as a letter but perhaps have that in the Media tab (another place to document this occured, if it is important enough for you to track this information)

Cristina Torruella · December 2017

I was struggling with the idea of recording it as an in-kind gift. I like the idea of making a note of the gift in our honor.

Thanks!

Heather MacKenzie · December 2017

Cristina Torruella:

I would appreciate some help.

A constituent purchased the "Gift of an Ark" from Heifer International in our school's honor. I would love some advice on how to record it.

Thanks!

Ditto JoAnn and Joanne's advice - record in the Notes tab instead, and then perhaps do your thank you letter under an Action or on the Media tab.

Rachel Slager 2 · December 2017

I agree with everyone above to not do it as GIK since it wasn't to you. We have faculty and students who are honored with gifts not to us, but closely tied to our mission (like gifts to the chapel, or a research org, etc.) We have the Prospect tab and record this is as a note as well as Gifts to other organizations. Since we don't generally track 'gifts to other orgs', this is a clean way for us to see which donors have us on their minds even when they aren't writing us a check.

Recording a gift of "something" in our school's honor

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