One In Honor Of Record

Christiana Congelio
Christiana Congelio
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edited December 4 in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®: General Discussions

Hello!

My organization uses one record named "In Honor Of" for any tributes that come in that are not a constituent. With the new matching in NXT for unmatched constituents, I'm struglling to figure out how to match them with that record, but since the honoree are thigns like "my students", I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with them. Any advice?

Thanks!

Christiana

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  • Alex Wong
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    May want to think about why you are recording that piece of information.

    Are you using it in any way? If not, why are they being recorded at all?

    My org will not record anything that is "in honor of god" "in honor of usa" "in honor of the earth the sun the sky"

  • Carlene Johnson
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    edited December 4

    I have an Individual record using "Generic Tribute Record" as the last name. We use that record for any tributes received for which there is no one for us to notify about the tribute. I just search for and link to "Generic Tribute Record" when doing my data review. It works really well for us. Let me know if you have any questions!

  • Christiana Congelio
    Christiana Congelio
    Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1
    https://community.blackbaud.com/discussion/comment/309132#Comment_309132

    OK, @Carlene Johnson yes, this is my problem! When I use NXT and there's someone I would usually add as a tribute record on our version of "Generic Tribute Record", I have to delete every name that has ever been used as a tribute and not to be dramatic but I dread it and it takes way too much time. Do you also really just delete all the random acknowledgees that have ever existed on there?

    @Alex Wong we mostly record it so that we can use it for acknowledgement letters to the associated constituent I am totally open to a different way, but this is the system I inherited and I haven't really figured out how to get rid of it.

  • Joe Moretti
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    I do not even see the point of creating such a useless record. If the honoree is just a generic one, like my students, with no one to contact, why bother creating such a record. Just store that info in the gift record in the reference field.

    Whoever started that had no idea what they were doing.

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