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  • Re: How to handle Charitable Gift Fund checks?

    We also receive multiple members who donate through gift funds, foundations and stock donations.  We treat all of these gifts the same and process these as a non-cash gift.  We also send a letter acknowledging the gift.  By processing the gifts as a non-cash, allows the donor to know that we received the funds on their statement (no ...
    Posted to Finance & Contributions (Forum) by  vstiff  on August 24, 2009
  • Giving away bible for Contribution

    I need help. Our church is giving away a bible if you give $200.00 or more to our campaign. But by law you must show that goods or services were given for there donation. At the end of the year how can you show that the market value of the bible was taken out of their dontation. 
    Posted to Finance & Contributions (Forum) by  Cobraes  on June 26, 2009
  • Contributions for Individual on Behalf of Another Individual or Company

    We have two members who are giving to a church campaign pledge through company paycheck withdrawals that also include a company match. The checks come in from the company in a single amount.  I'm struggling with how to record this in the contributions app. I'm assuming the employee amount should be allocated to the church member and the ...
    Posted to Finance & Contributions (Forum) by  rhaecker  on March 31, 2009
  • G/L Post Date

    Does anyone have a best practice for adding a G/L Post Date to contributions?  What is the implication of using an inaccurate date or not entering one?  Also, is there a way to batch enter them or must we go through each contribution and update manually? 
    Posted to Finance & Contributions (Forum) by  kdorado  on August 18, 2008
  • Re: General Ledger

    We use Blackbaud for general ledger and would like to have the ability to do more integration with it in F1, although I think that's doubtful.  Doing GL well is a massive project that I'm guessing FT would rather leave alone right now, although I'd be delighted to see them do it.
    Posted to Finance & Contributions (Forum) by  andrew.lang  on August 12, 2008