>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:55:47 -0800 >To: Dave Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Bednar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Mark Canizaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Fwd: [support] Handling donations funnelled through giving > campaigns > >Larry, > >>>My thought is that these should be handled as an Ebase "payment" >>>from the "giving campaign organization", since they are the ones >>>that formally provide the donation. So the "organization" providing >>>the funds would have a record in the Ebase NAMES_ file. >>> >Actually we do exactly the reverse. > >We enter the donation as a payment record attached to the person who >actually made the donation. (i.e., we don't thank Earthshare, >we thank the donor.) We see United Way, Earthshare, or such as a >METHOD of donating, and record that in the pay memo. >If for some reason i need to know how much came through Earthshare, >i can find that. I have been considering actually creating a special >field to manage this, but the pay memo seems to work fine. > >Matching gifts (which we manage in our ledgers along with workplace >giving) are similar, but in that case we do want to record >both the company and the donor, and i want a way to connect those >two records, so i am considering creating a field for that. If i >do that, i will probably track the workplace giving note there >instead of pay memo. > >Mark > > > >---------More People Bicycling More Often------------------------ > >Mark Canizaro, Bicycle Alliance of Washington > >206-224-9252 fax: 206-224-9254 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Database Manager, Membership Administrator, Technology Contact > >Bicycle Commuter, Bicycle Tourist, Completely car free
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