Campaign Groups

What is a Campaign Group?

While a Campaign in the new Admire is the specific fundraising operation, the Campaign Group is the umbrella on top of the campaign itself.  Campaign Groups allow you to organize and arrange your various campaigns into several neat categories instead of having all your campaigns accumulate in your database year after year into one big messy pile.

How to Organize Campaigns

• By using your Campaign Groups effectively you can set up your Campaigns in an efficient manner.

• The general rule is to create a different Campaign Group for each different type of campaign you run each year.  Then the individual Campaigns can be created under this group’s umbrella.

  • Example: If you conduct a yearly dinner you would create a Campaign Group called Dinner.  Each year’s Dinner would then be its own Campaign: Dinner 2023, Dinner 2024 etc.

  • Example: Throughout the year you carry out various Parlor Meetings in different locations.  You can create a Campaign Group called Parlor Meetings 2024 and have each individual Parlor Meeting as its own Campaign: Raintree PM 24, Westgate PM 24 etc.

• Additionally, it is a good idea to organize your campaigns to match how the income gets organized in your Chart of Accounts (bookkeeping).

Campaign Group Categories

There are two Categories that Campaign Groups can fall into:

Collectible: For Campaigns where you need to collect payment for something provided or something owed.  Examples: Tuition, G.O. Fee, Bounced Check Fee and Credit Card Processing Fee.

Donation: For Campaigns that are donations.  Example: Dinner, Raffle and Parlor Meetings

Tax Deductible

The general rule is that the Campaign Group Categories fall into these two designations and can be marked as such.

Collectible: Is NOT tax-deductible, receipts will not generate for payments made to these Campaign Groups.

Donation: Is tax-deductible, receipts will generate for payments made to these Campaign Groups.

Occasionally there is an exception to this rule, and a Collectible can be marked as tax-deductible or vice-versa.  An example of such a scenario is a Building Fund Campaign where some schools may want to keep this in the Collectible category but mark it as tax-deductible.