Year end is around the corner…Are you ready?

The end of the year is both a busy and an exhilarating time! You’ve got #GivingTuesday, an annual appeal mailing to send, a flurry of year-end donations, a higher volume of gift memberships to manage, and a huge influx of holiday visitors. Are you ready?
Don’t worry—we’ve got your back. Over the next few weeks we’ll be hosting web seminars chock full of best practice tips and how to instructions that will get you through your end of year!

We’ve linked these seminars below, so feel free to register for any that interest you.
 
Turning #GivingTuesday into Your Day of Giving
October 18^th at 1pm ET - Register Here
Discover how different organizations are turning #GivingTuesday into their own day of giving. From "GivingZOODay" to "GivingShoeDay" and everything in between, join us for a mashup of #GivingTuesday movements and lessons learned. Tap into the energy and excitement of the day and use it to mobilize donors, supporters, alumni, staff, and volunteers to make more money for your mission.
 
Altru Support Seminar: Managing Gifts of Membership
October 19^th at 4pm ET - Register Here
At this popular time of year for gift memberships, learn how to best manage gift memberships in Altru in this one-hour instructor led session.  We’ll cover how to add a gift message to web forms and incorporate some of the new gift membership fields into member letters and cards.
 
Altru Support Seminar Series: Mastering Your End of Year Appeal Mailings
Register Here for one or more of the seminars in this series
Get ready to have your best year end appeal ever with our three-part Support Seminar Series.

• Part I: Clean Your Data Now, Save Time Later
  October 26^th at 4pm ET
  Part one reviews how to find and fix tricky data issues that can be especially problematic for bulk mailings like your year-end appeal. For example: identify incomplete addresses, correct funky name formats, or find organizations missing contacts. Best of all, what we cover in this 60-minute session will be determined by YOU and your peers. Be sure to choose which issues you’d like covered by taking our pre-session survey here. 
   
• Part II: Segmentation Made Easy: Creating Your Appeal Mailing
  November 2^nd at 4pm ET
  Part two of this three-part Support Seminar Series, discusses segmentation and how to use Altru to send customized and personalized asks to your constituents! During this 60-minute session we’ll review best practices for creating a segmented, multi-letter Appeal Mailing. We’ll review creating essential query selections, using exclusions, and incorporating these into Altru’s Appeal Mailing Process.
   
• Part III: See Your Success: Appeal Reporting in OData
  November 9^th at 4pm ET
  Part three of this three-part Support Seminar Series, discusses how to create an OData dashboard using Microsoft Excel® 2013 to report on the success of your annual appeal. We’ll be building queries to incorporate sales orders and creating a dashboard to view statistics like average gift, total raised, and response rate. A knowledge of query and Microsoft Excel® is helpful, but not required.

 
Altru Support Seminar Series: Year End Reporting & Analysis
Register here for one or more sessions in this series

• Part I: Sales, Ticketing, and Attendance Reporting
  December 7^th at 4pm ET
  In this one-hour support seminar, we will discuss how to prepare reports you need for your year-end. Part one in this two-part series, will focus on reports needed for sales, ticketing, and attendance. Since your year-end is busy enough, we want to provide you with what you need most! If you plan to attend, please take our pre-session survey here to let us know what you’d like to see demonstrated during this session.
   
• Part II: Development, Fundraising, and Donor Reporting
  December 14^th at 4pm ET
  In this one-hour support seminar, we will discuss how to prepare reports you need for your year-end. Part two in this two-part series, will focus on reports needed for your development department including funds raised, donors, and lists pulled for donors.  Since we want to provide you with what you need most, if you plan to attend, please take our pre-session survey here to let us know what you’d like to see demonstrated during this session.

 
We look forward to seeing you at these seminars! To see more upcoming events like these, be sure to check out the Events section in the Community!

Happy Year End!