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Introduction to Fundraising

Notes and agenda for fundraising training course

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Written by James Webster
Updated over a week ago

This course is designed to cover all the key features of fundraising in Sheep. It is delivered through Google Hangouts. We will switch between showing you how to something and getting you to try it yourself.

Prerequisites:

  • Sheep user account setup and activated

  • Computer with audio & video with Google Hangouts setup

Length: 30 minutes

1. Concepts

Learning Objective: understand the words that are used in Sheep and how they map to the words/concepts you already use.

  • Contacts (People vs Organisations)

  • Pledge

  • Donation

  • Donor

  • Grant

  • Gift Aid

  • Appeals

  • Restrictions

2. Getting setup

Learning Objective: know how to add a new appeal or restriction

3. Donors

Learning Objective: understand donors and contacts, how to find and create them.

4. Recording a one-off gift

Learning Objective: how to create a pledge for a one-off gift

5. Regular donations

Learning Objective: how to create a pledge for a regular donation

6. How to use pledges

Learning Objective: understand how pledges work, when to create a new pledge, how to handle mistakes

7. Gift Aid 

Learning Objective: how to records gift aid on a donation, how to generate the HMRC export file, how to record a gift aid declaration

8. Scorecards and Streams

Learning Objective: familiarisation with scorecards and streams in Sheep

9. Reporting

Learning Objective: exporting a list of donors that match a given criteria

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