An occasional donor is starting an endowed scholarship with $25K (the minimum to start one) in honor of his parents. There is already one in the grandparents' names. Our current Annual Fund appeal isn't doing very well, and some in the office want to assign the AF Appeal Code to this gift. To be fair, the donor did receive this appeal in the mail, but it would have been within a very few days of the donor notifying us of his intention to fund a scholarship. When he received a thank-you phone call, he was asked if he had received the Appeal in the mail (he had), and that is why I'm supposed to assign the AF Appeal to this gift. This just feels wrong to me, and I'm not chuffed with the ideal of making the Appeal look as if it did much better than it actually did. There has been no Solicitor involved, no one asked him to fund the scholarship. In your shop, are Appeal Codes simply assigned "to the area of greatest need?"
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Sherrel Battles
Data Resource Coordinator
Christian Theological Seminary
sbattles@cts.edu------------------------------