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Greetings, Friends!

We have a large group of our Greek community who are pooling funds together and making a gift through a third-party to donate to our university. If we get the names of these individuals, what is the best way to associate them with the gift? I initially thought soft credit, but that seems pretty faulty, as we won't know how much each person contributed and we don't want to associate each person with the full amount of the lump sum. 

We could also tag each person with an attribute, but I'm not sure if there is a better practice here.

Of course, it would be better if each person just gave directly to us, but I've got to work with the situation I have.  :) 

Any insight is appreciated.  

Greetings, Friends!

We have a large group of our Greek community who are pooling funds together and making a gift through a third-party to donate to our university. If we get the names of these individuals, what is the best way to associate them with the gift? I initially thought soft credit, but that seems pretty faulty, as we won't know how much each person contributed and we don't want to associate each person with the full amount of the lump sum. 

We could also tag each person with an attribute, but I'm not sure if there is a better practice here.

Of course, it would be better if each person just gave directly to us, but I've got to work with the situation I have.  :) 

Any insight is appreciated.  

Thanks, John-your response is helpful.  I thought about entering participants as event attendees and that actually might be the route that I go, especially since gift credits factor into our lifetime giving calculation.  

In terms of how the data is going to be used, we are currently in a campaign to build a new Center for Greek Life, so being able to code these constituents and marry that data with wealth scores, affinity, etc is important in building in discovering some new prospects.  

Grateful for your response and insight.  

Greetings, Friends!

We have a large group of our Greek community who are pooling funds together and making a gift through a third-party to donate to our university. If we get the names of these individuals, what is the best way to associate them with the gift? I initially thought soft credit, but that seems pretty faulty, as we won't know how much each person contributed and we don't want to associate each person with the full amount of the lump sum. 

We could also tag each person with an attribute, but I'm not sure if there is a better practice here.

Of course, it would be better if each person just gave directly to us, but I've got to work with the situation I have.  :) 

Any insight is appreciated.  

Thanks, John-your response is helpful.  I thought about entering participants as event attendees and that actually might be the route that I go, especially since gift credits factor into our lifetime giving calculation.  

In terms of how the data is going to be used, we are currently in a campaign to build a new Center for Greek Life, so being able to code these constituents and marry that data with wealth scores, affinity, etc is important in building in discovering some new prospects.  

Grateful for your response and insight.  

Greetings, Friends!

We have a large group of our Greek community who are pooling funds together and making a gift through a third-party to donate to our university. If we get the names of these individuals, what is the best way to associate them with the gift? I initially thought soft credit, but that seems pretty faulty, as we won't know how much each person contributed and we don't want to associate each person with the full amount of the lump sum. 

We could also tag each person with an attribute, but I'm not sure if there is a better practice here.

Of course, it would be better if each person just gave directly to us, but I've got to work with the situation I have.  :) 

Any insight is appreciated.