Do you wish your agencies could run their own Acknowledgment reports - to collect information about their donors? They can! Save the time spent printing and mailing Acknowledgment reports to agencies. Learn how to set up your website so that your agencies can run their own Acknowledgment reports.

Pre-requisites: To use this feature, you must be licensed to use at least one of Andar's web modules (e-Pledge, CB, e-Volunteer, I&R, etc.).

Target audience: Agency relations / database management staff.

For fee and registration information, please contact the Helix Help Desk, toll-free, at 1-877-479-3780 x314.

Helix has scheduled this e-Class in mid-December and mid-January for those who would like to get a 'head-start' on their receipt submission.

In this e-Class, students will explore the entire process of creating IRS tax letters; from selecting transactions using cutoff dates, date ranges and threshold amounts through to downloading the data to the workstation and merging it into an MSWord tax letter document.

Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of Andar including general knowledge of transaction entry. Knowledge of mail merges in Microsoft Word or other software used to merge Andar data into the tax letter template. Knowledge of IRS tax laws regarding charitable giving receipts.

Target audience: Finance department or person responsible for sending out IRS tax letters.

For fee and registration information, please contact the Helix Help Desk, toll-free, at 1-877-479-3780 x314.

It is strongly recommended that you have a number of different passwords for different types of sites. For example, all your accounts at non-financial institutions use one password and then for your personal finance sites, use a more secure password (lots of gibberish characters such as #$& and digits, etc.)

Credit card numbers are even more worrisome! The website may be secure but what happens to the credit card number after? Some small business websites and nonprofit organization websites will collect your information (including credit card numbers) and then print it on paper. It is then re-keyed into their financial systems. What happens to your credit card number on paper? Some organizations with hosted websites will have the information e-mailed, printed or sometimes even faxed! Telephone orders can be just as bad, they often write your card number on paper first! Yikes! Very scary!

Gandhi