Donation Summary (Fiscal Year 2003)

NOTES:

Because our credit card clearinghouse bundles donations, the sustainer donations appear more uneven than they actually are. We are currently talking to the provider, to try to correct this. However, until (and unless) this changes, the 5-month running average is a better way to look at sustainer donations.

The average is calculated by taking the values for the two prior and two succeeding months, adding them, and then dividing by five. If no data is available for one or more of the months in question, the results are divided by a smaller amount, as appropriate.

The in-budget donations total does not include in-kind donations, since these are not subject to our budgetary process. In-kind donations are usually donations of some service or thing that we count in our overall financial reporting (hence the "total" total at the bottom).

The budget controls donations to and spending of our general funds. Since in-kind donations do not end up in our general funds they are not "in-budget" on either the donations or spending sides. For example, if someone were to donate a copying machine to the party, it would need to be reported, but would not be "in-budget" in the sense that we may not have budgeted to buy a copier, nor can we spend the value of the copier on other items.