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The Raiser's Edge Online User Clinics: Action Tracks and Moves Management®
June 17, 2010
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Agenda
� Welcome and Introductions
� Blackbaud News and Updates
� Action Tracks and Moves Management® Presentation
� Upcoming Web Events
� How Blackbaud Can Help
� Q&A
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The Raiser's Edge Online User Clinics: Action Tracks and Moves Management®
June 17, 2010
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Moves Management® in The Raiser’s Edge
� What is Moves Management® ?
• The actions you take to bring in donors, forge relationships and keep the
contributions coming are known as Moves, and Moves Management is the system of policies, procedures and practices that directs these actions.
� A Successful Moves Management ® Program Enhances:
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A Successful Moves Management Program Enhances:
• Constituent relationship management (CRM): Finding, analyzing and tracking
constituent information to form personal relationships with donors.
• Solicitation strategy: Increasing the success of your efforts by targeting prime
donor prospects.
• Strategic analysis and execution: Evaluating your program in light of specific
goals and objectives to ensure optimal results.
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Action Tracks & Moves Management
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ACTION TRACKS & MOVES MANAGEMENT TOPICS1. Resources
2. What is an Action?
3. How to Access Actions?
4. Anatomy of an Action Record
5. Action Reminder Panel
6. Action User Options
7. Configuring RE7 to talk to MS Outlook for Action Reminders
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8. What is an Action Track?
9. What is Moves Management?
- Discuss Moves Management©
- Review Action Tracks as part of Moves Management©
- Why use Action Tracks
- How to create and use Action Tracks
10. Action Reports
11. How Blackbaud can Help
12. Thank You and Questions!
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1. Resources:
1. User Guides are accessed from within the software by selecting Help, User Guides:
� Constituent Data Entry Guide – step by step instructions with real-life examples on how to effectively utilize Actions & Action Tracks. These guides are useful when you need in-depth information about a specific area of the program. You can view guides on your computer, or you can print selected pages or entire guides.
2. Help Files are designed to give you quick answers; it contains a table of
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2. Help Files are designed to give you quick answers; it contains a table of contents, index, and search features that enable you to find information about all areas of The Raiser’s Edge from a single location. To access the help file:
� Select Help, The Raiser’s Edge Help Topics from the menu bar
� You can also access the most recent pdfs of the user guides from www.blackbaud.com . Click Support, User Guides or Help, User Guides from within the software.
3. Knowledgebase (helpful tips)
� BB134342 – What is an Action?
� BB18724 – What are Action Tracks and how to create them?
� BB386506 – How to add independent actions to an action track
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2. What is an Action?In The Raiser’s Edge, actions are specific steps you take toward securing a donation from a constituent. Actions can include meetings, mailings, telephone calls, email messages, and advocacy. Using actions, you can build a history of contacts and communication involved in creating a successful relationship with a constituent. In addition to tracking meetings, phone calls, and mailings, The Raiser’s Edge can automatically remind you days, weeks, or months before an action is scheduled to occur. You can also link action records together into an action track, which is a sequence of related actions. Action tracks help you with your moves management strategies.
Why use Actions?
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Why use Actions?
Action Types� Constituent
� Event
� Appeal
• Establish “To-Do” Lists
• Delegate tasks to staff members
• Set up automatic reminders in RE7 and MS Outlook
• Run detailed reports on all activity!
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3. How to Access Action Records
� Home Page
� Records Section
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4. Anatomy of an Action Record
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Let’s take a look!
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5. Action Reminder Panel (Home Page)
� Home Tab (Tools, User Options)
� When you open The Raiser’s Edge, you are automatically reminded of your
actions on the Home page.
� Action Reminders can also be configured to appear in MS Outlook!
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6. Action User OptionsOn the Records tab of User Options, for Action records, you can mark the Prompt for follow-up checkbox. The program will then ask if you want to add a follow-up action when you mark an action as completed. On the Home tab of User Options, we recommend you set up a panel to show constituent, event, and appeal action reminders on your Home page.
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7. Configuring RE7 to talk to MS Outlook for reminders
� Select Admin, Security, Users
� In the “Outlook User” field, enter the name as it appears in MS Outlook
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8. What is an Action Track?
� An action track is a predefined sequence or series of actions assigned to a constituent, event, or appeal record.
� Tracks are usually a combination of independent and dependent actions.
� The creation of dependent actions is based on the completion of a previous
independent action.
� Tracks simulate a hierarchal process or checklist for a constituent, event, or appeal.
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appeal.
� You can effectively use action tracks as part of your moves management
strategies.
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9. What is Moves Management?
Do you visit prospects, create gift proposals, solicit individuals or organizations for donations, and cultivate and steward donors? The actions you take to bring
in donors, forge relationships and keep the contributions coming are known as
Moves, and Moves Management, simply put, is the system of policies, procedures and practices that directs these actions.
In essence Moves = Actions.
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In essence Moves = Actions.
An effective Moves Management program will improve your bottom line and
facilitate a number of internal processes.
Moves Management White Paper
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Moves Management© Defined
� System of monitoring, developing, and continuing relationships with
� donors
Move person from suspect to prospect to donor:
Identification
Qualification
What is Moves Management?
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Qualification
Cultivation
Solicitation
Stewardship
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Effective Moves Management©
� Improve bottom line and facilitate a number of internal processes
� Can increase success rate of every solicitor action
� Remains flexible and dynamic
� Enhancement of:
– Constituent relationship management (CRM)
– Solicitation strategy
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– Solicitation strategy
– Program and Pipeline management
– Strategic analysis and execution
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Action Tracks as part of Moves Management©
� Streamline cultivation of new donors
� Keep up with current donors
� Consistent fundraising approach for common segments
� Manage communication
� Eliminate manpower of creating individual actions
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Action Tracks Defined
� Predefined set of actions assigned to constituent, event, or appeal record
� “Check list”
� Composed of independent and dependent actions
– Independent added individually to record
– Dependent added by change in previous action
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Advantages and Limitations of Action Tracks
Advantages:
– Useful for stewardship
– Can set up for main components of any prospect pipeline
– Best for structured processes: lower and mid-level donors
Limitations:
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Limitations:
– Major donors are more individualized
– Based off of specific Action fields in The Raiser’s Edge
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Examples of Action Tracks
Stewardship: Constituent makes a major gift, therefore…
1. Send thank you letter from assigned solicitor
2. One week following thank you letter, phone call
3. Call or visit six months after thank you letter
Volunteer Coordination: Constituent expresses interest in volunteering,
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therefore…
1. Information packet sent to prospective volunteer
2. One week following, phone call to schedule training
3. Training for volunteer
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ABC’s of Constituent Action Tracks
� Action Queries for dependent actions
� Build the Track
� Constituent assignment
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Action Queries
� Before we begin, we want to create Action Queries for our dependent actions
– Ex: Action Query that only looks at completed actions
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Criteria: Action Information
> Completed equals Yes
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Build the Track
� Access Action Tracks from the main Raiser’s Edge shell
� Tools > Action Tracks > Define Action Tracks
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Build the Track
� Select to Show tracks for Constituents, Events, or Appeals
� Select New
� Enter Track name
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Build the Track: Define Constituent Action Track
� To add a new action to the track, select “New”
� New Action appears
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Build the Track: Create Action
� Choose the appropriate Category
� Complete the individual Action
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Build the Track: Add Independent Action to Track
� Save the Action – adds to Track
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Build the Track: Setting Conditions
Each subsequent action is dependent upon specified conditions
– For example: Completing the prior action
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Build the Track: Setting Conditions
Prior action
automatically
populates in the
Based On field
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Generic Action
query selected
3 Options for the date of the action
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Build the Track: Action Date
� Use date action is created
� Use ___ from date action is created
– Define a specific period of time in days, weeks, or months following the date
action is created
� Use ___ from date of [prior action]
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– Define a specific period of time in days, weeks, or months following the
preceding action
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Build the Track: Additional Options
• Attributes
– Qualities, characteristics, and
preferences associated with the
action
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• Notes
– Records to remind you of specifics
about action
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Build the Track: Subsequent Actions
� Note: “Based on” action defaults to prior action, but can be changed
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Subsequent Actions (cont’d)
� Ex: 3rd action should occur 6 months after 1st action
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Subsequent Actions (cont’d)
� Click binoculars to choose correct action
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Build the Track: Saving the Finished Track
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New Action Track is now
listed with other available
tracks of that type
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Constituent Assignment
� To assign Action Track to records:
– Select Tools > Action Tracks > Assign [Constituent / Event / Appeal] Action
Tracks
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Assign Track Wizard: Step 1
� Select the track to be assigned
� Can assign to one or group of constituents
– Based on constituent, individual, or organization query
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Assign Track Wizard: Step 2
� Choose starting action and date
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Assign Track Wizard: Step 3
� Final Options:
– Preview list of actions
– Assign track to same constituent(s)
– Link to proposal
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Link to Proposal: Use binoculars to
search for existing proposal
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Assign Track Wizard: Complete!
� After selecting parameters, click “Assign Now”
� If assigned successfully, confirmation message appears
� Option to preview Control Report
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The Track in Action
� Open constituent record > Select Actions tab
� First action appears on constituent record
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The Track in Action (cont’d)
� Mark “Action completed on” and enter date
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The Track in Action (cont’d)
� This causes the subsequent action(s) to appear on record
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10. Action Reports
� Action Detail Report – generates detailed information about selected or all actions in your database. This report is a great tool for tracking the
effectiveness of your actions.
� Action Summary Report – generates a list of action categories entered
in your database along with a count of constituents associated with each
action category. Because this report is a summary, constituent names do not
appear. The report simply lists all your action categories with the total
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number of constituents associated with each.
� Tickler Report – helps you keep track of the individuals responsible for the
actions in your database. This report can be arranged based on solicitors or
other users notified about an action. This report can include constituent or contact names, action start and end times, action types, the status of each
action type, action priorities, action progress, and proposal information.
� Proposal Follow-Up Report - tracks actions taken after you present a proposal. The report can include the status and priority of the proposal. (only available
with RE: Search module)
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Topic Date
Homepage and Dashboards 1/21/10
Database Cleanup 2/18/10
Batching and PCI Compliance 3/18/10
Querying 4/15/10
Mail Merging 5/20/10
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Mail Merging 5/20/10
Action Tracks and Moves Management 6/17/10
Reporting 7/15/10
Database Cleanup 8/19/10
Tracking Solicitors and Appeals 9/16/10
Importing 10/21/10
Split Gifts and Soft Credits 11/18/10
Security and PCI Compliance 12/16/10
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