Get Your Data on Google Maps For Free
November 14th, 2008How To Video below shows how you can put data points on Google Maps for free (you really should make a donation to the gang at batchgeocode.com, though).
Enjoy…
Prospect Management in The Raiser’s Edge®
February 12th, 2008http://REsolvedLLC.com/screencast.html
Thanks to one of our former / semi-present / enduring / infamous / hall-of-fame REsolved LLC staffers now working at St. Albans School, we are honored to host a screencast detailing Prospect Management in the Raiser’s Edge®.
Enjoy! Just remember: (1) he learned this from us, (2) we can do this for you, (3) if we run into difficulty, we will make him do it!
http://REsolvedLLC.com/screencast.html
(Seriously, thanks for the screencast, Graham.)
Entering Gifts of Stock in The Raiser’s Edge®
January 29th, 2008The video below demonstrates how to enter and receipt gifts of stock in The Raiser’s Edge® Database.
It is best viewed in full screen mode (prevents minor distortion).
Enjoy…
Coding Records as ‘DECEASED’ in Raiser’s Edge®
December 9th, 2007The ‘HowTo’ Video below demonstrates how to code a constituent as ‘DECEASED’ in Blackbaud, Inc.’s The Raiser’s Edge® Database.
Longer than most of our HowTos, the video gives detailed information about coding deceased constituents in the following three scenarios:
1. Deceased constituent (any type) with no surviving spouse;
2. Deceased constituent (any type but Alumnus) with surviving spouse;
3. Deceased alumnus with surviving spouse.
Enjoy! …
Coding Someone as ‘LOST’ in Raiser’s Edge®
December 8th, 2007The ‘HowTo’ Video below demonstrates how to code a constituent as ‘LOST’ in Blackbaud, Inc.’s The Raiser’s Edge® Database when you have received returned mail marked ‘UNABLE TO FORWARD’ and you have no additional contact information or way of updating the record.
Enjoy! …
Updating Contact Information in The Raiser’s Edge®
December 8th, 2007The ‘HowTo’ Video below demonstrates how to update contact information (address, phone, email) in Blackbaud, Inc.’s The Raiser’s Edge® database.
Enjoy! ….
How To Sort by an Embedded Last Name in Excel
December 6th, 2007Clients often ask us how to alphabetically sort data in Microsoft Excel by someone’s Last Name even if the name field is formatted as “Mr. John M. Doe.”
Basically, all you need to do is make a copy of the column containing the name data and use Excel’s REPLACE function in tandem with some wildcards.
The wildcards used in the How To Video below are:
? = Find any type of character
* = Find everything (used in tandem with ‘find everything leading up to a particular value’)
Please watch the video for a quick step-by-step ‘how to’.
Thanks. Hope you find the video helpful…
Who reads instruction manuals anyway?
December 2nd, 2007As an added service we have begun posting online HowTo videos for our clients and friends. These screencasts show exactly how specific tasks should be performed at each client’s particular organization — right down to the mouse click.
Check out our first post on Viddler.com about how to insert tomorrow’s date into MS Word merge documents when generating receipts or acknowledgment letters right here.
Or watch the embedded video below:
Cheap, Fast, Good: pick two
February 11th, 2007So the saying goes. And the saying is accurate … most of the time.
Cheap and fast is rarely good - “Sure, we can make do with just an Excel spreadsheet.”
Cheap and good is never fast - ask anyone who has tried to cleanup a database on their own.
Fast and good can break your budget - (don’t believe us?) just call your primary software provider and ask about unlocking that extra module. And so it goes.
But, there is one - and only one - exception: a tested system.
If there’s a system to produce what you need - be it a clean, efficient, Raiser’s Edge® database or a delicious but affordable catered event - and if that system has been tested in the real world, and if that testing applies to your situation, then you hit the jackpot: cheap, fast, good: delivered.
Somehow it seems appropriate that our first post should delve into the heart of why we started REsolved LLC. We knew there had to be a way to systematize the best that The Raiser’s Edge® had to offer. We spent years building and testing that system to ensure that it can be applied to any independent school or nonprofit organization using a Raiser’s Edge® fundraising system.
Remember your Marcus Aurelius: “For any particular thing, ask, ‘What is it in itself? What is its nature?’” By concentrating on gift processing and reporting, we built a comprehensive system that unlocks the full power of the software and does it for pennies.
‘The system is the solution, the solution is the system’.
Come see our solutions…