[support] Matching Grants

[Cecily Clemons]

Title: Matching Grants

Here's a question I've been puzzling over.

We have a foundation who is has granted us a challenge (matching) grant.  What we'd like to do is to extend this to our members, as a way to increase giving, offering the opportunity to increase their giving level.  So, for example, if John Smith gives $100 to this specific effort, then his giving level will be posted at $200 (a 1-to-1 match)

With other systems I've worked on you can do this easily because the posting of gifts is based on "soft credits and hard credits"  So, what you'd do is to book the foundation gift as a hard credit (total challenge grant, say $2K for the sake of argument) and the $100 (match) for John Smith as a soft credit.  This way, you can go back in the next year and ask for a renewal of the increased amount ($200), and yet all fiscal reports will report the numbers correctly....John Smith at $100 and Foundation Y at $2,000 (because it only pulls hard credits).

Anyone encounter this and have a solution?  And, yes, we are booking and tracking grants in ebase.....

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Cecily
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Cecily Clemons
Development Director
Predator Conservation Alliance
P.O. Box 6733
Bozeman, MT  59771
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