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We would like to give our contributors the ability to donate anonymously.  We don't mind collecting information on them, but we want to be able to flag them as requesting that the particular donation made is an anonymous donation. 

I have been thinking of using a tag, or creating a custom field in a profile, but it would seem like this is a common need in the Civi Community.

What are the best practices for handling donors who wish to remain anonymous?

Thank you.

We create an Anon contact each month and assign the contributions to that contact.

We are doing it quite similar - but we are using only one ("dummy") contact which contains any anonymous donation (most of them are cash donation).

I do not see any reason in creating this dummy contact for every month, because with CiviCRM you can easily select all contributions to that contact by any period you like (last month, April last year and so on).

You can use a custom field on the contribution object for this to record that fact

lobo