Network for Good Community

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! 

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.  

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?

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Wednesday May 13th, 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=208&title=network-for-good-office-hours

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Thursday May 21st, at 11am ET? Haven’t registered for this Office Hour session yet? You can sign up here: https://community.bonterratech.com/event/show?id=209&title=network-for-good-office-hours

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

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Wednesday April 29th, at 3:30pm ET? Haven’t registered for this Office Hour session yet? You can sign up here:  

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

What questions do you have for Network for Good Office Hours on Wednesday April 15th, at 3:30pm ET? Haven’t registered for this Office Hour session yet? You can sign up here:  

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  1)     Is there consideration for changing the suggested donation amounts when donor selects Monthly over One-Time?  Currently the donation suggestions remain the same and I've seen where other entities have much smaller suggested amounts when the donor selects Monthly.  (I know they can input their own amount, but is something like this in the works?)2)    When will EFT become available in Network for Good?  (I'm working on focusing on monthly donations and believe this will only enhance those opportunities)

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?

We have a number of couples who have different last names.  NFG recommends setting up different profiles for them, and then linking them together in the household, but then having to add soft credits  to the other spouse when they make a donation.  This feels very gunky to me - has anyone perfected the best way to do this?

Just wondering if anyone else is having difficulty with volunteer hours. Every time I create an opportunity and try to add hours to a volunteer for the opportunity it gives me an error that the hours have to be on certain date between certain times, which it is. I end up having to select multi-day to report the volunteer’s hours. 

Thanks to everyone who joined this month’s Que Skills Lab! We loved diving into ways to use Que more effectively, from skill-building and best practices to real-world nonprofit scenarios.In this session, we focused on:• Coaching on key Que skills (and/or introducing new functionality)• Practical best practices tied to real nonprofit workflows• Live Q&A and troubleshootingNow let’s keep the conversation going.💬 How are you planning to apply what we covered?💬 Are there workflows you’re refining or building in Que right now?💬 What challenges are you running into that the community might help with?💬 Did any tips or strategies from the session stand out to you?Whether you're experimenting with segmentation, campaign planning, donor stewardship, or re-engagement strategies, we’d love to hear what you're building.Drop your questions, ideas, or examples below. This space is here to help you learn, t

In NFG, I have existing donors where the company they work for have a Match donation program. As an example, Donor “Susan” made a donation of $100 and donation will be acknowledged. The company she works for also made a $100 match donation that should not be acknowledged. Currently I add Susan's donation to NFG selecting “Check” as “Payment Method” and leave “Acknowledged” unchecked. When the Match donation arrives later on, I log back onto Susans account, add another donation and select Payment Method of “Match”. In the “Donation Notes” field, I add a note stating that this is the Match portion of the donation noting the company name etc and that the company sent the additional donation on behalf of employee “Susan”. I then check mark that donation as “Acknowledged” so acknowledgement doesn’t get sent and “Donor Type” field as “Other”. This method eliminates the need to setup a separate account for the company who made the m