What is TntMPD?
TntMPD is a custom relationship manager for missionaries who raise their own financial support. “MPD” is an acronym for “Ministry Partner Development”. The individuals, churches, and organizations God has raised up to financially and prayerfully support a missionary’s work are an integral part of their effort. It is essential to build and maintain a solid relationship with these generous ministry partners. TntMPD combines a regular contact manager with the valuable financial component of associating gifts with contacts.
TntMPD helps the missionary tackle the administrative side by making it easy—and fun!—to manage the relationships with ministry partners who pray and give generously. More than 3,500 missionaries from dozens of agencies use TntMPD, and these users fall into three categories:
| • | Level 1: Simple Contact & Financial Management. TntMPD is easier to use than almost any other contact manager on the market, and keeping track of gifts is a great feature. Many missionaries have benefited from TntMPD without going beyond this level. |
| • | Level 2: Task Management. Tracking tasks—and being able to review your past activity (“history”) with partners—is made easy with TntMPD. |
| • | Level 3: Exploding TntMPD. TntMPD is full of creative and clever enhancements that help missionaries excel in their ministry partner development. |
TntMPD features that help a missionary manage their relationships:
Manage Contact Information
| • | 3 separate greetings for customizing letters and envelopes. |
| • | Personal info such as birthdays, anniversary, children, job, and hobbies. |
Manage Financial Information
| • | Identify contact by type of giver (regular “financial partner”, special partner, prayer only, etc.). This is called “MPD Phase” (see MPD Tab Reference Guide). |
| • | Record pledge amount and frequency. |
| • | Record who referred you to this contact. |
| • | Record all gifts. TntMPD can do this automatically with some organizations. |
Record relationship activity
| • | Create Tasks (letters, calls, thank yous) to build relationship. |
Analyze Giving
| • | Helpful charts: View 10 types of givers in 14 different ways, for as many months back as you wish. |
| • | These tools help you see areas of strength and weakness. |
| • | View assorted reports—Contribution summaries, Pledge Fulfillment Report, Birthday & Anniversary Report, and use Lookups to segment your list. |
TntMPD First Impression
| 1. | Button Bar. To access key TntMPD features. |
| 2. | Task Tab. Number indicates number of pending of tasks. |
| 3. | Summary Data. TntMPD tells you this contact’s giving status, such as pledge amount & frequency, average giving, and how current they are (colored dot). |
| 4. | Groups. Contacts are viewed in Groups, with “Everyone” as the default. ("Everyone" is the list of all contacts in your database.) You can use Lookups to create a group of any kind, such as regular partners, newsletter recipients, people to contact, etc. |
| 5. | Counts. # of contacts in your database (bottom number) and in the displayed group (top number). These are equal when the group is “Everyone”. |
Four Key Screens in TntMPD
The MPD Tab
On the Contact View, the MPD tab displays key financial information such as type of ministry partner, giving pledge, and giving history for each contact.
The Task Tab and Task View
You can view tasks for an individual, a group of contacts, or all of your contacts. To view tasks for an individual or the current group, select the Task Tab in the Contact View. 
The History Tab and History View
Shows the history of completed tasks with each contact.
The Analysis View
View a graphical analysis of your partnership team. These graphs can help you get a better picture of the strengths and weaknesses of your team. For example, you can view all of your donors (# of donors, total gifts, last 12 months gifts) by state or region or city or church, etc.
Eight things TntMPD does automatically:
*if your organization supports this feature
| 2. | Download Ministry Partner names & addresses* |
| 5. | Alerts you when an update is available |
| 6. | Strikes out undeliverable addresses. |
| 7. | Asks you if you want to change a contact’s MPD Phase (partner status). |
| 8. | Adds country to mailing address when you are mailing to a country other than the one you are located in (set up in ). |
Six things TntMPD does NOT do automatically:
| 5. | Add non-donors (these have to be imported or manually keyed). |
| 6. | Determine your partner’s pledge. You have to manually enter the pledge for each partner. Having a pledge for a partner is key to many functions in TntMPD, such as Automatic Action for New Gifts, support calculations, analysis reports, Pledge Fulfillment Report, and more. |
Getting Started with TntMPD
| 2. | Walk through the initial setup steps: |
| • | Create your TntMPD database. |
| • | Enter your personal information. You do not need to enter your address and phone. |
| 3. | Load your contacts (several different ways) |
| • | If you can connect with your organization’s donor database, you can download all of your donors and their gifts. |
| • | If you have an existing database, you can save that as a text file and load it into TntMPD (see Import Contacts Reference Guide). |
| 4. | Assign MPD information to your contacts on the MPD Tab |
| • | Each contact in your database needs, at a minimum, an MPD Phase. If they are a financial partner (regular donor), then you need to enter their pledge amount and frequency. |
| • | You can download gifts from your organization, enter them on a grid using , or enter them individually for each contact. |
| 6. | Use the Tasks & History (and other features). |
| • | This is where TntMPD really shines. Use the various features of TntMPD to build stronger relationships with your ministry partners. |