Named Giving Opportunities

I previously used Blackbaud's CRM product that is built on basically the same platform as Altru and was surprised that I don't see any functionality to manage Named Giving Opportunities.

If you're not familiar with them or call them something else, let me give a quick recap:
Some organizations use these as a Fundraising tool - think buying a brick with your name and class year on it for the courtyard at your alma mater. We are developing educational programs and sessions that will have cohorts attending them and would like to offer donors the chance to name them. With CRM, we could have created a Named Opportunity for Education Program and indicated the lowest amount that could qualify and how many we had. We would then be able to search for an appropriate naming opportunity based on a donor's budget.

Does anyone out there do something similar within Altru currently? I've thought that we could perhaps leverage Merchandise functionality to manage these opportunities so we can track how many we have left - the main reason I don't want to just create a standard Opportunity record is that I can't track quantity available. I'll probably be adding an idea in the Idea Bank and will post the link later but I was wondering what other organizations are doing in the meantime.

Thanks,
Naomi

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