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Keni Sturgeon posted a new Topic
Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Reminder: Are you ready for Cambio? Applications to Join the Cambio Cohort 4 are Due November 1
Cambio–meaning "change"–aims to advance equity starting with museums’ capacity to support Latinx participation in STEM. Brought to you by ACM partners, the Exploratorium and CCLI,* and funded by the National Science Foundation.
Cambio offer a yearlong, funded professional development program designed to help museum teams shift their practices. Cambio participants cultivate STEM experiences that are culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining to Latinx...
Olivia Pekkala posted a new Topic
Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Blackbaud Altru Attendance Reporting
Altru Users, we have been reporting on attendance using the Event Attendance report. In order to get an accurate count of how many people we see each day we add our scanned tickets + sold tickets for field trips and birthday parties manually for each day. We have worked with support on creating a custom query, but there has not been one produced that adds the way we need. We would also like to see totals for days, weeks, months, and years at a time.
How are other Altru Users repor...
How are other Altru Users repor...
Merredith Christos posted a reply on Re: Visitor Data
Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:50 AM
Said: We have only used a Google Sheet thus far to track exactly what you're referring to. Unfortunately, our ticketing system cannot easily sort those items for us, so manually does it best. Our sheet has the date, visitor type, customer nam...
Julie Boam posted a reply on Re: Minor Volunteers
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Said: Interesting. I have always requested background checks for all of our volunteers, minor and otherwise. There has never been a problem. The FBI one is the one I wonder about, though. I am checking with our legal t...
Shelby Kellner posted a new Topic
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Visitor Data
Hi Everybody,
Currently, we use Access to track visitor data. This is becoming outdated for us, and our volunteers cannot come in as frequently to code it. We are looking for a new system that we can use. Currently, we track the ages and zip codes of visitors. We also have about 10 "categories" under which we put the visitors (field trip, party, admission, etc.). If we could keep those categories, that would be a huge help.
If anybody has any suggestions or recommendations,...
Currently, we use Access to track visitor data. This is becoming outdated for us, and our volunteers cannot come in as frequently to code it. We are looking for a new system that we can use. Currently, we track the ages and zip codes of visitors. We also have about 10 "categories" under which we put the visitors (field trip, party, admission, etc.). If we could keep those categories, that would be a huge help.
If anybody has any suggestions or recommendations,...
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