Rick,

I'm sure this is a simple question with a simple answer; however, I have searched for it for a couple of months now...literally.  I feel silly even to ask; but, here goes!  I have corporate sponsors who are also teams.  I've entered them as sponsors and linked their respective team accordingly; yet I'm unable to get these funds to reflect on the team's webpage.  How do I make this happen and still reflect these organizations as sponsors?  I'm one who reads and researches questions before asking them.  This one continues to stump me!

Our event website is www.RelayforLife.org/Onslow.  I've taken a lot of pride in our site and how we've taken advantage of its many features.  Thank you to ACS Relay for making this site so user friendly this year!  I've been the Event Chair since 2002 and this is the best year ever!!  Thanks for making it easy for people like me to access, utilize and maintain our site.  The teams love it and so do I!!

Thanks for all that you do!


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March 9, 2009 - 12:36am
Corporate dollars / team credit

Carol, it's most probable that the corporate sponsorship dollars were entered as an Event-level "donation". If your Event Committee is ok with the idea, go to EMC / Customer Service / Record Event Gifts and locate the sponsorship transaction. Then, simply Change Soft Credit to the appropriate team.

/Rick



March 9, 2009 - 8:15am
Corporate Sponsors
Rick,
 
I went to the site to change the soft credits as you suggested; however, it does not provide that option.  Here is the link to the page I'm speaking of.  Thank you in advance for your help!!
 

 

 



March 10, 2009 - 12:40pm
Changing soft credits on Event donations

Well, I'm stumped. Half of your Event-level transactions have a change soft credit link, half don't and I can't discern a pattern.

I'm advising the South Atlantic Relay Online support team of this issue for further research and, hopefully, resolution. If it gets figured out, we'll post the answer to this thread.

/Rick



March 10, 2009 - 1:41pm
Thank you!

Thank you, Rick, for looking into this.  I sincerely appreciate all your help and efforts.  Have a great day!



March 10, 2009 - 5:45pm
Hi, I've looked into this. 

Hi,

I've looked into this.  We had some difficulty with this last year as well. When gifts our entered in the company section they don't show up on the company page. Our recommendation is to enter them as an event donation to the team.  If you want to track the donatin you can enter the company name in the first name field, sponsor in the last name field so you can sort by last name on a report and see all sponsors together. 

Kelly Scott

e-Revenut Customer Care Manager



March 10, 2009 - 3:05pm
What about "In Kind" Sponsors?

Thanks Kelly!  I think I will do that and revise it if/when the issue is resolved.  The teams really want to see that credited to them. 

I have another question along that same line...What did you do for the "In Kind" sponsors??  For example, our local newspaper donates $5000 in advertising for our event.  On the company page, you can select "In Kind"; "pledge"; "sponsor"; etcetera.  Do you have any thoughts on how I can do that since I'm not receiving the actual cash? 

Thanks again for responding.  I greatly appreciate your help!!!  Have a great day!

 

 



March 10, 2009 - 5:43pm
In-kind sponsors

I'll let Kelly or Tina weigh in with South Atlantic policy guidance on this, but generally, in-kind sponsors can be recognized via the rotating sponsor logo feature on the home page. A $5000 in-kind sponsor, depending on your Region / local Relay guidelines may or may not qualify to be so recognized. An alternative is to have a sponsor page, linked from your left nav menu, where various levels of sponsorships are recognized with the appropriate placement of a logo.

In most cases, though, common practice is to not "book" as a hard dollar donation to the Event or a team the value of an in-kind donation. Having said that, it's worth noting that the Convio database is NOT the ACS database of record for donations or expenses and is NOT the basis for Division and National recognition for per cap rankings. So, ultimately, it's up to the local Relay Committee, with concurrence of the Regional ACS team, to decide what gets credited how and to whom and, I'd argue, so long as the rules are understood and explained, do what's right by your Relayers and your community.

Having said all of that, ultimately your Region's guidance should prevail so that there is some consistency across neighboring Relays.

Kelly, Tina...

/Rick



March 10, 2009 - 7:55pm