Network for Good Community

We use Volunteer Opportunities to track volunteer service hours, but the current setup creates significant reporting challenges.Many of our volunteer opportunities are ongoing, recurring tasks rather than one-time events. However, the system requires every opportunity to have both a start and end date. To keep these ongoing opportunities available, we are forced to assign an arbitrary end date far in the future rather than creating a new opportunity every day.The larger issue arises when attempting to report on volunteer participation and hours.While reports can be filtered by a specific opportunity, the available reports do not provide detailed information such as:Individual volunteer service dates Hours logged for each volunteer Volunteer participation within a selected date range Volunteer skills associated with individual volunteers The ability to export all contacts associated with an opportunity for further a

Within the Events Sponsors we need the ability to adjust/enter the qty. they would like to order for sponsorship.We are selling $5 Sponsorship Donations for our “Class Hole Sponsorship Competition” and the min. is $5 but we want our sponsors to click on it and be able to enter a qty. they wish to purchase (ie. Qty 10 = $50 Sponsorship).  Currently it allows you to “Edit” but not actually enter the qty. you want to order.  

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Wednesday June 24th, at 3:30pm ET? Haven’t registered for this Office Hour session yet? You can sign up here:  

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Has anyone found a good workaround for entering offline auctions?  The Auction process is cumbersome to say the least. I’d like to be able to just enter the auction purchase (item, purchase price, and value) in donor management but would like to categorize it as an auction vs. a donation.  Ideas? Thanks!

When I look in my NFG database at a letter I sent it shows the current date instead of the date I sent it.  Can that be fixed?

When adding a donation, there is a section “OPTIONAL DETAILS” “CAMPAIGN - Select an existing campaign”.  Most of the campaigns listed under this drop down are no longer active and are not tied to our active campaigns, (we currently only have two).  Is there a way to archive these campaigns so they no longer show on the drop down?  TIA for your help!

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Wednesday May 27th, at 3:30pm ET? Haven’t registered for this Office Hour session yet? You can sign up here: https://community.bonterratech.com/event/show?id=210&title=network-for-good-office-hours

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We are looking for 75 more Network for Good customers to help be beta testers for Grants Management. If you’re interested, request to join this group and we’ll get you more details: https://community.bonterratech.com/groups/nfg-grants-management-beta-tester-group-356

Does Network for Good offer a check-in kiosk for volunteers to check themselves in when they arrive on site?  Is there a way to list opportunities and have volunteers sign themselves up via an emailed link? 

In our database we currently use groups heavily to segment our contacts. We are now looking to transition to using custom fields. We have too many groups and custom fields makes more sense for the information we are tracking. This means that we need to update multiple contacts individual custom field information. I was curious if anyone knows of an easy way to do this in bulk instead of having to individually edit hundreds of contacts. Any help or advice if you have done something similar is appreciated! 

I am using filters in Network for Good to segment donors into groups by giving level over the last 12 months. I am using “Total household donations over custom date range” and when the list is generated, only one member of the household shows up. Why don’t both members (if applicable) show up on the list? The filter states household donations, so wouldn’t that include the donations for the entire household? I am attempting to capture them as Giving Units and not individuals, since that is how they give, but the other individual is showing up with $0 donated in the same custom date range, even if they were grouped in the household and checked as a co-donor at the time the gift was recorded. Or is there a better way this information could be extracted?

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This may seem super simple, but if I’ve linked 2 donors together in a household and marked them as co-donors, is there a way to make that retroactive to previous donations? It appears that it only links subsequent donations and there is no way to link the donations that were recorded before the donors were linked together.

I am confused with the data entry template that is required in order for the data entry team to export the information into the Bonterra System. Does anyone have any tips or guidance to make this process smoother?

It would be nice if NFG had an archive feature that could archive donors/contacts.  Currently, we just remove addresses so they never show up in any mailings,. but if would be great to have some kind of an ‘inactive’ feature.  How do others deal with this?

Does anyone have advice on creating filters in NFG for segmenting contacts by level of engagement? For example, high engagement contacts having donated and opened emails recently, middle engagement within the last couple years, and low engagement not donating or opening emails in the last several years. We tried setting up the filters this way and NFG does not seem to be pulling records accurately; wondering if there is something we are missing.

Hi y’all,Does anyone have advice on how to note a stock/securities or DAF gift in the CRM? I don’t see it as an option in the Donation Payment Method field. Are folks just selecting "other” and then making a note in the “Payment Description” or “Donation Notes” fields?Thanks so much!

Hi all! I wanted to put out a call for virtual/remote volunteer opportunities at your nonprofits. In conversations with corporate funders, virtual and/or remote volunteering opportunities always come up as something they would like to know more about and be able to recommend to their home-based staff. I thought I would go straight to the source and start collecting opportunities that your nonprofits have that volunteers could do virtually or independently nationwide, not just as a larger office group. If you have virtual volunteering opportunities at your nonprofit please share them here (link to your website and a description of the opportunity) and I will pass them along. Thank you! 

I would love to hear what others do to keep thank you letters fresh for recurring donors, especially monthly donors?

We import workplace gifts monthly. Unfortunately these imports always create duplicate accounts . Anyone have this issue and have a solución? Thanks