Split Gift Analysis

 Hey you guys!

It’s not a big secret that one of the more controversial features for many long year in Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge is the split gift feature. On one hand it offers a great way to divide a single contribution into multiple funds, campaigns, or appeals. On the other hand it makes analysis somewhat difficult. 

Many institutions simply don’t use split gifts at all and would enter a single check or credit card gift as multiple gifts in the batch. One of the things that makes analyzing split gifts difficult is the lack of a split gift ID in the Query and Export modules. While it is technically possible to get the split gift ID from the administrator import function, there’s another way that you can create a unique ID for each split gift segment.  

In this demo, I show example examples using Excel and tableau how this can be quickly accomplished. 


What do you think? What are some of the other issues working with split gifts  in Raiser’s Edge!

Yours in Data,

-Dave

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