do you record gift when you don't know who donor is?

Patty Neumeier · May 2014

We received a gift in kind but do not know who the donor is. How do you handle this in RE?

Nina Williams · May 2014

Patty Neumeier:
We received a gift in kind but do not know who the donor is. How do you handle this in RE?

We have a record named "Anonymous" for things like that.

Aldera Chisholm · May 2014

Nina Williams:
We have a record named "Anonymous" for things like that.

Same here! We also try to put as much detail on the gift in notes/etc as possible for future reference.

JoAnn Strommen · May 2014

Patty Neumeier:
We received a gift in kind but do not know who the donor is. How do you handle this in RE?

We have a record called "unknown donor" and we record this type of thing under this record. We chose this name to avoid any possible confusion with 'anonymous' gifts.

Melissa Graves 3 · May 2014

JoAnn Strommen:
We have a record called "unknown donor" and we record this type of thing under this record. We chose this name to avoid any possible confusion with 'anonymous' gifts.

I also use Unknown Donor and not Anonymous to avoid confusion.

Dan Gomez 2 · May 2014

Patty Neumeier:
We received a gift in kind but do not know who the donor is. How do you handle this in RE?

I've seen the same as everyone else, but because the person who set up our database had a good sense of humor, all of those donations were credited to "The (first name) Mystery Donors (last name)," who lived at 11 Mysterious Lane. But be sure to check the "has no valid address" box!

do you record gift when you don't know who donor is?

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