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February 22, 2012 - February 24, 2012 Great Rivers Conference

February 27, 2012 - March 02, 2012 United Way Andar Users Group

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March 27, 2009

Careful: Narrow Payouts

Narrow payouts are great for paying out dollars to specific agencies or even a specific donor or company. You need to be aware that this process will estimate the dollars to be paid out.

You must run periodic full payouts in order to ensure that all designations are correctly and fully paid.

Single Signon or Not?

As some of you may know, you can use Windows Authentication to login to Andar. This means that when you double click the desktop Andar/360 icon, it will not ask you to login (it will automatically use your Windows user id and password to login to Andar ) and it will display the Andar Main Menu immediately.

That's great but what if you want to login with a different user id (such as "Andar")? Simple! Just make a copy of your desktop Andar icon, edit the icon preferences and add "WA=false" (case sensitive) at the end of the target field.

By the way... Andar reads its settings from the "andarparm.txt" file then reads additional setting from the end of the target field. The last value read overrides all previous values. Example: the WA=true is set in the "andarparm.txt" file (probably on your server) but the "WA=false" on the copied desktop icon can override this setting.

Read about single signon.

Standard-M

Are you dreading having to manually calculate processing and fundraising fees to be Standard-M compliant? Even if you have only one company campaign involving multiple United Ways, you still have to be compliant! Andar/360's Standard-M module will do the calculations for you and prepare the reports you need to conform to the Standard. Whether you are a processor or a recipient of pre-processed gifts from another United Way, the Standard-M module will do the dirty job for you.

Quote of the Week

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

About Helix

Helix is a leading provider of cost-effective, enterprise-wide fundraising and community support software to nonprofit organizations and corporate foundations. Drawing on its 15-plus years of service and experience with the nonprofit sector, Helix offers within its Andar/360 product, an integrated suite of functions that addresses various missions of not-for-profit organizations, such as fundraising campaign management, online giving, allocation of funds, outcome measurements, volunteer management, and community services such as Information & Referral (211).

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Our customers say...

"One of our staff commented that he had been personally involved in 5 previous software conversions, and this was 'by far the smoothest conversion I've ever seen.' What most impressed us however, is the customer service."

Al Ruhe
MIS Director
United Way of the Greater Dayton Area
Dayton, OH