PowerUp Challenge: Task #2 - Review & Add Categories to Campaigns, Funds, and Appeals
Maintaining accurate and consistent Campaign, Fund, and Appeal Categories is an essential part of strong data hygiene. These categories not only keep your records standardized, but they also ensure that your web view dashboards, reporting tools, and segmentation workflows display meaningful, organized insights.
- Create a Campaign, Fund, or Appeal Query. This allows you to quickly identify records missing categories or containing outdated or inconsistent category values.
- Add relevant fields to the output, including:
- Campaign, Fund, or Appeal Name
- Category
- Any additional fields useful for segmenting or auditing
- Add relevant fields to the output, including:
Review and update category values to align with your current naming conventions and organizational structure.
- Repeat this process for Campaigns, Funds, and Appeals to ensure full data consistency across your fundraising framework.
- You can add new table entries directly from a record in database view
- Or add/update them in web view, Settings, Tables under the appropriate category table
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This is very helpful
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Easy peasy. Done!
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Informed our team 😉
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I didn't have any experience with these categories. Good to know.
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Done - created new FY campaign at beginning of January
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Done! I love Categories for Appeals, specifically, as I can group them easily for reporting.
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I extended mine to include blank packages. This helps to track each gift to the appropriated bucket.
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Done. I've been meaning to do this for my active appeals. Thank you for finally getting me to sit down and do it.
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We've used Appeal category in the past to mark out Direct Mail and Celebration related appeals but worth thinking about whether it could be used for other kinds of appeals.
It was also worth doing this for the celebration appeals that got merged into our database last year!
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We already have these queries created and use them every month
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Done. I started adding appeal categories last year.
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