Orphan or Child Sponsorship
This Pledge Campaign can be managed much like any other campaign and standard reports will be available. The Selected Pledge Mail Merge report on the Pledges page allows you to produce mail merge data sources for use in mailing to donors about their commitment.
If an entire group of people is sponsoring one child, you need to create a Company Contact record and use that as your Donor record. Use the Add a Company tool.
If you allow individuals to pledge towards more than one child, be careful during check entry in Batch Manager Tool (BMT). The system automatically attempts to credit pledges when a donor with a pledge distributed to a campaign program. This is done when the deposit is created after a batch is finalized. But the results are not precise if there is more than one pledge by the same donor to the same campaign. Instead, consider listing all child names in the beneficiary field of one Pledge record for that donor.
Sponsor Orphans or Children
- Create a program from the orphanage.
- Create a Pledge Campaign for each orphanage, connecting it to the program you created.
- Edit the program record, and connect it back to the pledge campaign.
- Create a pledge for each donor. Select one Head of Household if the pledge is by a household.
- Add the name of a specific orphan being sponsored to the beneficiary field.