Revision history for OverviewoftheDepartment


Revision [57255]

Last edited on 2020-11-18 17:39:23 by jpetterson
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2019: December 3, 2018
2020: December 9, 2019
2021: November 11, 2020
**IContact Account Manager (as of November 2020)**
Paige Madtes
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**IContact Account Manager (as of April 2017)**
Sarah Carroll

Revision [21163]

Edited on 2018-03-07 12:39:40 by aleortiz
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2018: December 6, 2017

Revision [19872]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:45:49 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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Interview requests? Forward to Adelaide and see how she wants to handle. Visit [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/CribSheetInterviews/ Handling Interview Requests]]
Interested in legacy gift, IRA’s, stock gifts, etc: forward to Adelaide. Also visit [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/MiscellaneousPoliciesandPractices Unusual Donations you may receive]]
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Interview requests? Forward to Adelaide and see how she wants to handle.
Interested in legacy gift, IRA’s, stock gifts, etc: forward to Adelaide.

Revision [19871]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:40:50 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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DevComm Tasks are managed in the [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/Tasks DevComm Tasks Sheet]]

Revision [19870]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:39:59 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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||2014||$1,856,669.32||
||2015||$1,066,218.21||
||2016||$1,082,019.46||
*cost of mailings not subtracted out in 2014-16
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||2014||
||2015||
||2016||

Revision [19867]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:16:52 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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Interview requests? Forward to Adelaide and see how she wants to handle.
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Members of the media? Forward to Adelaide and see how she wants to handle.

Revision [19866]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:16:19 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**See below: helpful pieces of info you may need in DevComm**

Revision [19865]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:15:48 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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======Overview of DevComm======
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======Overview of the DevComm======

Revision [19864]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:14:00 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**Our EIN #**: is 85-0364261

Revision [19863]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:12:54 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**Wells Fargo CEO Helpline:**
1-800-289-3557

Revision [19862]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:11:15 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**IContact Technical Support:**
866.331.3207
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IContact Technical Support:
866.331.3207

Revision [19861]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:10:51 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**Current DonorPerfect Account Manager (as of April 2017):**
pburns@softerware.com
**IContact Account Manager (as of April 2017)**
Sarah Carroll
scarroll@icontact.com
919.957.6233
IContact Technical Support:
866.331.3207
Deletions:
**Current DonorPerfect Account Manager (as of 2017): **
pburns@softerware.com

Revision [19860]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:02:23 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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===**Random Tidbits of Information you may need for DevComm:**===
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**Random Tidbits of Information you may need for DevComm:**

Revision [19859]

Edited on 2017-04-21 10:02:03 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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**Random Tidbits of Information you may need for DevComm:**
**Renewal Dates:**
2016: December 3, 2015
2017: November 30, 2016
**Ad Square Dimensions: **
Desktop Ad Square Dimensions: 950px x 560px
Mobile Ad Square Dimensions: 320px x 300px
Social Media Posts Dimensions: 940px x 788px
**Letterhead Dimensions:**
Top: 1.50
Bottom: 1.50
Left: 1.70
Right: .50
**Correct CRID:** #22085687 and is under the name “Project Vote Smart”
**Password for Safe:**
Ask Director
*Away from your desk? Make sure the safe is locked!
**Clipperz:**
In safe
**John Floyd:**
AKA Direct
503-467-2229
Evergreen@AKADirect.com
**Current DonorPerfect Account Manager (as of 2017): **
Paula Burns
866-410-4439
pburns@softerware.com
**Example API Call:**
http://api.votesmart.org/CandidateBio.getBio?key=bbad23b6fa27737fd5b2e4655d4ac673&candidateId=9490
**Site for sharing secure information:** https://ncry.pt
It allows you to enter whatever text you want in the big box.
- Set the info to "Expire in" "one-time only".
- Check the "Assign a password" box. Come up with a password and enter it.
- Click submit (you could add a file if you really needed to, but that's typically not the case).
- Once you've submitted, it will give you a pop up with a link.
Share that link and the password you created with the person you're trying to communicate with. The other person goes to the link and enters the password. They get the info you shared. After they visited, the link dies and no one else can see it (hence "one-time only"). Alternatively, you can not set a password. That's still secure because the link will expire.
**Handling Membership@:**
Alert Richard if emails come in from any of the following entities:
- Major Foundations (not DAF’s or community foundations)
- Founding board members
- Anyone who specifically addresses Richard by name
Members of the media? Forward to Adelaide and see how she wants to handle.
Interested in legacy gift, IRA’s, stock gifts, etc: forward to Adelaide.
Research related question? Forward to research director (research@votesmart.org)
**Handling Richard**:
- If you aren’t sure about something, ASK. If you made a mistake, TELL Richard. There is no use in hiding anything from RK or trying to do things on your own. Just openly communicate.
- Even if you aren’t sure how to respond to an email, or need time to figure it out, let Richard know that it was received. Ex. “Thanks Richard, I will get back to you.”
- Make sure that people do not EVER get the same thank you letter twice.
- Make sure donations are data entered correctly and records are personalized.
- Do not send him an info sheet with errors on it.
**Submitting an event to the AP Calendar**
Email event information to news@applanner.com
Follow up by calling 212-621-1500

Revision [19858]

Edited on 2017-04-21 09:42:41 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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======Overview of the DevComm======
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======Overview of the Development & Communications Department======

Revision [19857]

Edited on 2017-04-21 09:42:15 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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[[http://wiki.votesmart.org/CategoryMembership Development]]: We process all of the incoming money, including: grants from charitable foundations (handled by RK), donations from private citizens, and incoming money via Vote Smart's API. We are also responsible for maintaining our database of members in DonorPerfect, and we respond to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members. We also handle all member correspondence through the mail and email, which includes sending thank you letters to our donors every 2 weeks.
[[http://wiki.votesmart.org/CategoryMedia Communications]]: We handle all external communications, including: social media, email marketing, creating blog content, pitching the media and promoting PVS through the media, and creating promotional materials. We are also responsible for website management, including updating the Ad Square, updating information on communications-related web pages, and monitoring Google Analytics and Ad Words.
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Development: We process all of the incoming money, including: grants from charitable foundations (handled by RK), donations from private citizens, and incoming money via Vote Smart's API. We are also responsible for maintaining our database of members in DonorPerfect, and we respond to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members. We also handle all member correspondence through the mail and email, which includes sending thank you letters to our donors every 2 weeks.
Communications: We handle all external communications, including: social media, email marketing, creating blog content, pitching the media and promoting PVS through the media, and creating promotional materials. We are also responsible for website management, including updating the Ad Square, updating information on communications-related web pages, and monitoring Google Analytics and Ad Words.

Revision [19856]

Edited on 2017-04-21 09:41:32 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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Development: We process all of the incoming money, including: grants from charitable foundations (handled by RK), donations from private citizens, and incoming money via Vote Smart's API. We are also responsible for maintaining our database of members in DonorPerfect, and we respond to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members. We also handle all member correspondence through the mail and email, which includes sending thank you letters to our donors every 2 weeks.
Communications: We handle all external communications, including: social media, email marketing, creating blog content, pitching the media and promoting PVS through the media, and creating promotional materials. We are also responsible for website management, including updating the Ad Square, updating information on communications-related web pages, and monitoring Google Analytics and Ad Words.
Historically, the Development & Communications Department has provided somewhat more than half of the funds used by the Project in any given year. The fundraising efforts of the Department have historically been centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The following table shows the amount of money raised by the Development & Communications Department since the inception of the Project (not including donations made from large foundations such as Pew, Knight, and Ford.)
||2014||
||2015||
||2016||
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In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, Vote Smart is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Vote Smart's President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
Historically, the Development & Communications Department has provided somewhat more than half of the funds used by the Project in any given year. The following table shows the amount of money raised by the Development & Communications Department since the inception of the Project.

The fundraising efforts of the Development & Communications Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably.
In addition to its fundraising duties, the Department is also responsible for maintaining several databases and for responding to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members.

Revision [19587]

Edited on 2017-04-18 16:41:55 by cassandra@votesmart.org
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The Development & Communications Department (we lovingly call it "DevComm") is the primary fundraising and communications arm of Vote Smart.
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The Development & Communications Department is the primary fundraising and communications arm of Project Vote Smart.

Revision [15396]

Edited on 2015-05-12 10:02:09 by KristenVicedomini
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The Development & Communications Department is the primary fundraising and communications arm of Project Vote Smart.
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, Vote Smart is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Vote Smart's President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
The fundraising efforts of the Development & Communications Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably.
In addition to its fundraising duties, the Department is also responsible for maintaining several databases and for responding to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members.
Deletions:
The Development & Communications Department is the primary fund-raising and communications arm of Project Vote Smart.
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project's President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
The fund-raising efforts of the Development & Communications Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably, and will be dealt with at a later point in this document.
In addition to its fund-raising duties, the Department is also responsible for maintaining several databases and for responding to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members.

Revision [10648]

Edited on 2014-02-20 16:35:02 by RachelHartman [Added 2013 totals]
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||2013||$1,013,005.84||

Revision [9984]

Edited on 2013-10-09 08:47:41 by RachelHartman [formatting]
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In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project's President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
Deletions:
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project�s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).

Revision [9394]

Edited on 2013-06-30 16:14:04 by RachelHartman [formatting]
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In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project�s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
||2012||$1,230,212.23||
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In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project’s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
||2012||||

Revision [7100]

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Revision [5690]

Edited on 2012-02-13 09:15:34 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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======Overview of the Development & Communications Department======
The Development & Communications Department is the primary fund-raising and communications arm of Project Vote Smart.
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project’s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Development & Communications Department).
Historically, the Development & Communications Department has provided somewhat more than half of the funds used by the Project in any given year. The following table shows the amount of money raised by the Development & Communications Department since the inception of the Project.
|=|**Year**|=|**Total Income Derived Through the Development & Communications Department**||
||2010||$890,760||
||2011||$908,684||
The fund-raising efforts of the Development & Communications Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably, and will be dealt with at a later point in this document.
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======Overview of the Membership Department======
The Department of Membership Services is the primary fund-raising arm of Project Vote Smart.
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project’s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Membership Department).
Historically, the Membership Department has provided somewhat more than half of the funds used by the Project in any given year. The following table shows the amount of money raised by the Membership Department since the inception of the Project.
|=|**Year**|=|**Total Income Derived Through the Membership Department**||
||2010||$826,947.16||
The fund-raising efforts of the Membership Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably, and will be dealt with at a later point in this document.

Revision [5203]

Edited on 2011-10-17 16:10:06 by CorneliaCollins [formatting]
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||2008||$1,044,837.27||
||2009||$1,478,092.27||
||2010||$826,947.16||

Revision [5202]

Edited on 2011-10-17 16:06:39 by CorneliaCollins [formatting]
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||2008||$1,044,837.27
||2009||$1,478,092.27
2010 $826,947.16

Revision [5201]

Edited on 2011-10-17 16:02:32 by CorneliaCollins [formatting]
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||2008||$1,044,837.27
||2009||$1,478,092.27
2010 $826,947.16
Deletions:
||2008||Unknown||
||2009||Unknown||

Revision [3525]

Edited on 2010-01-28 15:51:08 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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The fund-raising efforts of the Membership Department are centered on direct mail appeals to prospective and current members. The strategies for the two groups differ considerably, and will be dealt with at a later point in this document.
In addition to its fund-raising duties, the Department is also responsible for maintaining several databases and for responding to questions, complaints, and material requests from members and potential members.

Revision [3524]

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||1989||$40,003.73||
||1990||$170,121.53||
||1991||$224,195.43||
||1992||$945,321.89||
||1993||$423,945.21||
||1994||$764,454.72||
||1995||$999,886.31||
||1996||$945,966.37||
||1997||$888,155.01||
||1998||$1,192,257.48||
||1999||$1,078,925.97||
||2000||$1,146,219.79||
||2001||$1,131,460.22||
||2002||$1,078,165.47||
||2003||$1,022,672.69||
||2004||$1,245,599.75||
||2005||$1,114,184.68||
||2006||$1,192,391.83||
||2007||$974,775.05||
||2008||Unknown||
||2009||Unknown||
Deletions:
||1989||40,003.73||

Revision [3523]

Edited on 2010-01-28 15:40:57 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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||1989||40,003.73||
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||cell1||cell2||

Revision [3522]

Edited on 2010-01-28 15:40:00 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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The Department of Membership Services is the primary fund-raising arm of Project Vote Smart.
|=|**Year**|=|**Total Income Derived Through the Membership Department**||
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The Department of Membership Services is the primary fund-raising arm of Project Vote
Smart.

Revision [3521]

Edited on 2010-01-28 15:38:00 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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The Department of Membership Services is the primary fund-raising arm of Project Vote
Smart.
In order to maintain both the reality and the appearance of non-partisan objectivity, PVS is not allowed to accept donations from political parties or campaigns, PACs, labor unions, for-profit corporations, governmental agencies, or any other institution with a possible lobbying interest at any level of government. This leaves only two allowable sources of funding: grants from charitable foundations (handled by the Project’s President) and donations from private citizens (via the Membership Department).
Historically, the Membership Department has provided somewhat more than half of the funds used by the Project in any given year. The following table shows the amount of money raised by the Membership Department since the inception of the Project.

Revision [3515]

The oldest known version of this page was created on 2010-01-28 15:33:10 by BrandonCopeland [formatting]
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