All Amicus Training courses

This is a bespoke 1-2-1 session with an Amicus trainer. The agenda is yours!

This is a bespoke 1-2-1 session with an Amicus trainer. The agenda is yours!

On completion of Amicus training, you will need to enrol on an assessment course. You will need to complete a maximum of 3 scenarios within Amicus. This will ensure you are comfortable and confident using the system in preparation for when we go live. It's not a scary test - remember:

• You can bring your training notes
• A trainer will be on hand to answer any questions

This course is designed to give you the foundation knowledge of what is held in Amicus and help you get started using it. It will cover:

• How to view and edit contact records
• Where to find employment, education, relationships, giving details and interests
• Recording actions and interactions
• An overview of the prospect solicitation cycle and how to complete contact reports
• How to create a contact records
• Corresponding with individuals
• How to view reports

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Basics course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This session is a working session to help you add and edit Biographical Details, add Addresses, and link Business Addresses in Amicus.

This course covers the communications functionality within the Amicus system:

• Sending mass communications
• Corresponding with individuals or small groups
• Managing salutations and contact preferences
• Recording famous individuals, social media and CAM contributors
• Managing templates and managing the Communications working group

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Communications course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

Learn why its important to record Contact Reports in Amicus. You will learn to find the correct contact, create an Action, then create a contact report which can then be linked to a solicitation cycle.

This session will give you an overview updates are received by Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations. We will also look at how updates are recorded (with an overview of key fields in Amicus). You will also be shown how to download and filter the monthly data exchange reports.

Following completion of the Amicus Basics course, this session will give you give you detailed knowledge of:

• Creating an event, budgets, resources and sending invitations
• Managing bookings, dietary requirements and attaching documents
• Creating a guest list, name badges and attendee itineraries

For users unfamiliar with the Events module in Amicus, this overview will cover many of the major areas that are used by event professionals.

We will cover the following areas:

• New Event workflow in Amicus
• Booking and Invite form
• Guests at Events

This is a pilot run of the Amicus Events course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This session includes:

• An introduction to Amicus, why we're changing systems and the journey so far
• A demo of the system
• What's happening in the next few months
• Opportunity to ask any questions

This course will give you detailed knowledge and hands-on experience for:

• Gift aid declarations
• Day book procedure and creating batches
• Destination and source codes
• Adding pledges, payment files, online batches and gift aid claims
• Recording gifts in kind and Canadian tax receipts

This course is designed to give you the additional Amicus knowledge required to complete tasks actioned by the Database team. It will cover:

• How to update a deceased record
• How to merge records
• How to update gender changes
• How to add and update sticky notes

There will be time allocated at the end of the course for you to practice what you have learnt in the Amicus Basics course and apply it to Database Team tasks.

This is a pilot run of the Amicus for Database Team course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

This is a pilot run of the Amicus for Fundraisers and PIA course. Attendance will be by invitation only. For enquiries about this course, please contact Sam Grimley, Will Dixon or Sue Bourne.

Following completion of the Amicus Basics course, this session will give you detailed knowledge of:

• Information held at prospect level
• How to create and edit the solicitation workflow stages
• What good looks like for contact reports
• How to access and create contact reports from your phone or tablet
• Wealth ratings and prospect research tools

This course is designed to get started in using Amicus. It will cover:

• An overview of the functional areas in the system
• Navigation and searching for records
• How to update contact records
• How to create Actions and Interactions
• Adding reports to your dashboard

Have you struggled with any fundraising aspect of Amicus? Do you have any burning questions you have not found the answer to? Attend this interactive session with Katie Green and Anabela Ali to talk about all things fundraising related in Amicus. Come along with any questions or challenges you have faced! Snacks will be available.

For users unfamiliar with the Fundraising module in Amicus, this overview will cover many of the major areas that are used by development professionals. We will look at the work that you do in your team and how it benefits the users of this area in Amicus. We will cover the following areas:

• Contact Reports
• Solicitation Cycles
• Ratings
• Legacies
• Shared Prospects
• Prospects and assigning fundraisers

Welcome to the first Amicus Hackathon where we will aim to specify the changes we want to see to enable us to view donor giving information in an easier and more accurate way.

In this interactive session we will divide into cross functional groups. Each group will generate ideas of what data is required and how it should be viewable. We will then share proposals and agree on a specification to take forward for future development.

This webinar is aimed at the user who hasn't used Amicus in while, and needs a quick refresh on how to find records and navigate around Amicus.

Learn how to export the data you need from Amicus. Using Amicus Reporting Services you will be able to view and run a number of pre built reports created for the institutions that use Amicus. You will also use Amicus Reporting Services to export data you have selected using a saved Yellow Box Search.