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Ron Schoenmehl

Ron Schoenmehl
Member since : Jan-28-2009 (Verified)
3 Ideas, 0 Comments, 3 Votes

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My office staff tells me that effective January 1, 2010, labels for bulk mail need to have all information in all capitalized format, no commas anywhere, and some other changes. Will we have a soft-ware update to accomodate these changes? Can anyone verify this information as I cannot find this on the USPS website.
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Gatenetmarketing.com works through greenbackstreet.com to give your council and your Scouters a percent rebate on their internet on-line shopping. There is no cost to the council or to the Scouters. You set up a portal from your council website, so that purchases will be tied back to your council. It is hard to think why this would not be a win-win for both the council and the volunteers.
Moderator Comments
9/28/2009

From: Mark Moshier, Funding Support

Passive fundraising would be in conflict with the current commercialism guidelines of the Boy Scouts of America. Our feeling is that there is an implied endorsment of products and services if we engage in this form of fundraising.
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Since contribution statements should be mailed for donations of $250 or more, we should look at how ScoutNet generates them. For example, if I donated $25 ten times during the course of a year, a contribution statement would not normally be generated because no single gift was over $250. The current system requires that we go into a campaign, download it to excel, sort by total dollars given, and then flag those where no single gift was over $250. Be nice just to have it all add up. I understand that we are not legally required to give a contribution statement but it is the right thing to do.
Moderator Comments
10/29/09
From: Mark Moshier, Council Funding Team Leader, Finance Impact Dept.

The Contribution Statement routine is defaulted to the letter of the law and maybe not the spirit or donor expectation. As has been stated before you can override the defaults and run all contribution statements and the select those that have made total non-benefited contributions of $250 and benefited contributions of $75.
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