{"id":2646,"date":"2024-08-13T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/?page_id=2646"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:30:19","slug":"submitting-donor-rosters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/marketing-design\/studio\/submitting-donor-rosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Directions for Submitting Donor Rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When submitting a donor roster to Creative Services in a Word or Excel document, please DO NOT use colored boxes or symbols for your donor categories. The boxes and symbols do not convert properly into our layout software \u2014 all formatting is lost, and we will return your roster for additional formatting.<\/p>\n<p>The best practice is to designate each category with an <strong>acronym and ALL CAPS<\/strong>, see below. Any additional categories you need to add should follow this same style (<strong>Acronym and ALL CAPS<\/strong>). Various BU schools and colleges may use differing names for special donor categories, so we request that you provide a distinctive acronym designation and your roster key for your donor categories for your school\/college. At Creative Services, we will convert your key into colored boxes for donor categories as they will appear in published donor rosters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">Annual Fund Leadership Giving Society Member<br \/>\nPresident\u2019s Society Member<br \/>\nWilliam Fairfield Warren Society Member<br \/>\nRecent Graduate Giving Society Member<br \/>\nFirst-Time Donor<br \/>\nLoyalty Society Member<br \/>\nThree-Year Consecutive Giving<br \/>\nFaculty\/Staff Member<br \/>\nParent<br \/>\nDeceased<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">AFLGS<br \/>\nPRESSOC<br \/>\nWFWARREN<br \/>\nYOUNGALUM<br \/>\nFIRSTIME<br \/>\nLOYALS<br \/>\nTHREEYEAR<br \/>\nFACSTAFF<br \/>\nPARNT<br \/>\nDECEASED<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do not use honorifics like \u201cDr.\u201d or social titles such as \u201cMr.,\u201d \u201cMs.,\u201d or \u201cMrs.\u201d in donor rosters, in accordance with BU Editorial Style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When submitting a donor roster to Creative Services in a Word or Excel document, please DO NOT use colored boxes or symbols for your donor categories. The boxes and symbols do not convert properly into our layout software \u2014 all formatting is lost, and we will return your roster for additional formatting. The best practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":250,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2646\/revisions\/3888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}