Finding and Fixing Your Top Ten Gift Processing Problems

Oftentimes fundraising departments struggle with the same problems every time they enter, acknowledge, and report gifts.  Are you one of them?

• Does your finance department have to manually enter data into their general ledger, while those same gifts are re-entered in your donor database?
• Are gift officers manually writing acknowledgement letters, taking upwards of 48 hours to reply to new gifts?
• How often are gift records of the development and finance department reconciled?  Less than once a week?
• Do you have to weed through data on Excel when it's time to deliver a donor report?

Many offices think the setbacks are slight and patch them up when they occur.  Merely putting a band-aid on a consistent problem does not make it go away.  Think about all of the time that's spent gingerly bandaging problem after problem.  That time could have been spent managing and executing your capital campaign.

There is help out there to make gift processing more efficient, thereby leaving more time to devote to developing good relationships with your donors.

Download our "Finding and Fixing Your Top Ten Gift Processing Problems" guide in PDF or Word format.