Personalization. Not just for direct marketing.

This new feature lets you configure your own personal default values for when you create new records, pledges, batches, comments, and Major Gifts Projects using various screens in the application. Located in the ADMIN Tab, under “Personalization:”

What’s cool about this is that it lets you specify personal options and preferences for a number of editable system elements:

To proceed, select one of the items in the list above to display the elements on that screen that you can personalize. Pick your favorite choices and click the save button; when you go to that screen to add something new, your favorite choices will be pre-populated for you.

Profile Reports

You can build your own on screen displays for donor information by selecting the Profile Report within the navigation in any record. This lets you build dynamic on-screen displays with whatever information, in whatever order you want to see. Simply click on the Profile Report Option:

On the right side, you will see all of the options. Specify the items you want to have appear in your custom display:

You will notice that we even allow you the ability to select exactly how much information you want to see. For example, maybe you don’t want to see every comment going back to 1962, etc. Here you can enter in the criteria for how much information to display as well as the order in which it displays.

Once you’re done building your criteria, click “Process” to build your custom display. You can also save your report for future use in case you have a board member or someone that always wants to see particular information about a record the same way each time.

When you build your on-screen report, you can hit PRINT and it will print exactly as you’ve specified. Particularly useful if you have on the road fundraisers and need to give them the “skinny” on a particular donor they’re about to meet.

Upload Information

We ROI folks are freaks about documentation. You probably knew that from the User’s Manual, Online Video Tutorials, ROI News, Online Business Rules, Report Summaries, SQL Tools, SQL Functions, Online Schema View Structures, Field Level Descriptors, helpful hints and screen tips that are sprinkled throughout the system, and oh my goodness, I could go on and on….

But here’s something I didn’t know. If you are an uploader of sorts, and you click on this icon (otherwise known as “more than just a pretty icon”):

You get a listing of all of the uploads that are available in your domain along with details on exactly what the upload procedure does.

Did You Know?

At the bottom of every page in Revolution Online, there’s a little tiny text note. If you’re having problems after hours – you can click it and it will send an email to the ROI Staff who are on call. We don’t like to brag, but we’re a pretty responsive group — even in the wee hours of the morning. (And yes, I get these notifications too!).

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) which began in 2004 is an online survey created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The goal is to help nonprofits analyze their year-to-year giving. The survey compiles data from nonprofits from all sectors and allows participating nonprofits to compare their results to the entire pool of nonprofit participants or to the subsection of the pool they are in. Data can be compared against other organizations by type of organization, file size, age of file and geographic region.

The primary focus of the survey is to look at growth-in-giving from one year to the next year broken down by gains and loses. The annual Fundraising Effectiveness Surveys are ongoing and open to all nonprofit organizations. There is no charge to participate, and participating organizations receive access to the survey performance data.

For more information visit:

http://www.afpnet.org/research_and_statistics/fep

http://www.afpnet.org/ka/ka-3.cfm?content_item_id=24675&folder_id=3272

All information supplied by participating survey respondents is kept strictly anonymous and confidential, and results are reported in aggregate form only.

According to the AFP FEP project, a critical element in the success of the FEP has been the cooperation and support of numerous donor software firms.

ROI Solutions has been one of the charter member firms of the AFP Donor Software Workgroup since 2004. At AFP’s invitation, these firms have assisted with the design of the surveys and are ready to help their clients respond to the surveys.

For clients of ROI Solutions wishing to participate in this FEP surveys, ROI Solutions has developed an “all-electronic” software module for the FEP surveys that eliminates the need for our clients to key the fundraising performance data manually into AFP’s web-based survey form. This module is accessible directly in Revolution Online and is available to all clients at no charge.

Participation Made Easier for Revolution Online Clients: How to participate

Organizations that wish to participate should fill out their organization specific data on the AFP Profile form located on the Tools tab under Commands:

On this form you need to confirm your organization’s desire to participate and provide information such as organizational and professional staff affiliations, first year of fundraising, fundraising subsector, staff size and fundraising expenses.

Once you have completed the AFP Profile Form and indicated that you would like to participate, your data will be submitted to the FEP automatically by ROI.

Viewing Your Data: The Results

After your data has been processed by the FEP, it will be available for you to view in three reports available on the Reports tab in Revolution Online:

1. The AFP Client Gain/Loss report shows gains and losses over a two year period exclusively for your organization. The report is broken down by New, Recapture, Upgrade, Downgrade, Lapsed New, Lapsed Repeat and is presented for both the monetary value of the gifts and the total count of gifts.
2. The AFP Aggregate Gain/Loss report allows you to view the same gain/loss information as the AFP Client Gain/Loss report pulled from the aggregated data that FEP provides to participating nonprofits. In this report you can select to view the data for a subset of the total data broken down by geographical region, file size, age of file or fundraising subsector or any combination of these factors.
3. The AFP Client and Aggregate Gain/Loss report allows you to compare your gain/loss performance to the entire pool of data or to any of the subsets, or combination of subsets described for the AFP Aggregate Gain/Loss above.

A Note on Confidentiality

Agreeing to participate in the FEP online survey authorizes the AFP to share your data in an aggregated form with other participating nonprofits. Your data will be included in a set of data that includes no identifying information about your organization. Your data will only be available in aggregate form based on geographic region, file size, age of file and fundraising subsector. Your organization will not be identifiable within the data set.

Please contact your ROI Solutions Technical Account Manager if you have any questions or would like help with this process.

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For more information visit:

http://www.afpnet.org/research_and_statistics/fep

http://www.afpnet.org/ka/ka-3.cfm?content_item_id=24675&folder_id=3272

http://www.afpnet.org/

Save this post as a pdf: roi-afp-fep.pdf

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ROI Releases QTool2…

We’ve introduced a new Query Tool for our users that allows you the ability to create more dynamic and comprehensive queries and outputs through Revolution Online. For more information, please see the Revolution Online Help Menu (and there you will also find an online video tutorial).

In addition to building queries for you, this new Tool offers other features such as:

1. Personal “Tool Box” – providing an easier way to save elements or portions of any query for later use and re-use in building additional queries.
2. Online summary information – displaying everything from the details of the query itself to when it was last run.
3. Online file pick-up or email output with notification.
4. Exposed raw SQL statements – providing you the “behind-the-scenes” detail (for those of you who like to “see” the SQL behind the query).
5. Enhanced layout and file retrieve functions – giving you more flexibility in your outputs.
6. Global “Exclusions” – providing client administrators the ability to set organization-wide exclusions to be applied to all queries.

And all of the features that existed in the Original Query Tool such as Copy to and Sharing Options as well as super fast results.

Just a reminder: This feature is provided to all ROI clients at no additional charge and specialized training is also free. Please contact your ROI Technical Account Manager. (And a special thanks to our Beta-Testers!)

We call them Flex Notes!

When you go to the donor account screen, in the commands section in the top right corner of the window, you will see a new icon that looks like a note tacked to a bulletin board:

Click the “note” icon to open an edit box where you can enter a note for the current donor account.

As you see. you are given the choice to show this note to just yourself, or to everyone in the client domain.

When you are done, click “save” — or click anywhere else on the page to cancel editing.

When you open an account that has a note on it, the donor name at the top of the screen is double-underlined the same way that the list items were underlined, indicating that the account has a note. You can see this indicator from every sub-function on the page, and from both the EDIT and VIEW screens.

In addition, you can manage all Flex Notes through the Tools Folder. There you can also create multiple Flex Notes for several accounts at the same time.

Introducing ROI Analysis

As a ROI client, you know Revolution Online can store as much information as you can gather, no matter what that information is. Having this kind of data warehouse — the ability to access all of your information simultaneously — makes analysis faster, easier, and more comprehensive than ever before.

Toward the goal of helping you understand the health of your file, ROI Solutions has developed a special suite of Client Analysis Reports that gets at the heart of your file – from every angle, encompassing all of the data elements you currently store directly in Revolution Online.

1. Campaign, Contact, Contact Type and Demographic Analysis
2. Donor File Key Health Analysis
3. Loyalty/Retention Analysis
4. Donor/Member Reactivation
5. Upgrade/Downgrade Analysis
6. Giving Summary Analysis
7. Lifetime Giving by Acquisition and Source Type Analysis
8. Upgrade/Downgrade
9. Universe Analysis

And more!

ROI is offering a special one-time full file analysis to you and your organization at no charge. ROI Solutions and its team will provide your organization with a full picture of the health of your file from every angle. Contact your ROI Technical Account Manager for more information.

Did You Know? >>Online Video Tutorials

There’s a slew of online video tutorials located in the Online Help menu.



If you go to the Help Contents to the item called “Show Me” there you will see the video tutorials we’ve created.




Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show!