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Political Campaign Donors?I'm interested in setting up a database of people who have contributed to local political campaigns. I have the raw data that I need, but I'm not happy with the interface in some cases or the abilities in other cases of the programs I have used or seen. Most of the data I would use is in Excel format, some in Word and very little in Access. I also have donor information from several campaigns that I'd like to get into one place for purposes of eliminating duplicates and one other purpose. Let's say I'm working on a state rep campaign. I have donor data for 3 other area state rep candidates that would be ripe for soliciting for a race like mine. I would like a system where I could upload all of this and among other things I'd like to be able to generate a list of the common donors to all 3 of the other campaigns, thus eliminating friends and family of the other candidates who probably only donated because of their relationship to the candidate, not because they are consistent or usual donors. Does this make sense and can I do this? |
Steve --
Steve --
ODB does this easily. Either user the categories field or the Appealcode field to store the name of the candidate to which a gift was made. Categories works if you are doing up to 32 candiates, appealcode if you want to make it much bigger.
The gift search will then give you the list you want.
-rich
Is there any way for someone
Is there any way for someone to set up a template like this that I can put on my computer and get operational?
Thanks again for your help.
Hi Steve --
Hi Steve --
We do offer support... and rates are pretty reasonable to show you how this is done, provide the initial setup based on a 90 minute interview, and then provide ongoing support for a year.
If you have downloaded the PDF version of the manual and you read the sections on using ODB for Organizing and for Fundraising you will see some pretty detailed answers to your questions as well.
By default in ODB there is only one code enabled to track gifts but it it takes about 20 seconds to go in and enable the other codes which could be used to identify the candidate receiving the political gift.
-rich cowan
ODB Project Director