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We use a LOI for all of our bigger grant cycles. It helps the nonprofits not to have to spend a lot of time in writing a grant that doesn't interest our committee and it keeps our committee from having to go through the whole process with applications they know they will not be funded. The committee reads each proposal and…

Just a note to let everyone know you should have gotten an invitation from Foundant today to a CSuite Indiana Hybrid Meet-up that will be about how to utilize CSuite for Gift VIII. If you didn't receive the invitation, please contact emily.szewczyk@foundant.com.

This is the idea in Idea Lab that speaks to the need to have more fields available in the envelope template.

Hopefully you have all registered for the upcoming Indiana CSuite Hybrid Meet-up we are hosting on Thursday, October 19 at 3:00 - 4:30pm ET. If you didn't receive an invitation, please contact Emily Szewczyk at Foundant.

Hopefully you have all registered for the upcoming Indiana CSuite Hybrid Meet-up we are hosting on Thursday, October 19 at 3:00 - 4:30pm ET. If you didn't receive an invitation, please contact Emily Szewczyk at Foundant.

There are a lot of us! We use CS, GLM and SLM. Carol Reynolds Finance and Programming Associate Community Foundation of Hancock County 971 W. U.S. 40 | Greenfield, IN 46140 317.462.8870 www.CelebrateHancock.org

@KelleyHoagland we do mail merges from the spreadsheets for the communications. There is really no place in CSuite to pull that number from. As far as the scholarship money, our normal policy is not to carry money forward in spendable unless there is some sort of extenuating circumstances.

Thank you for the baby gift, Foundant!

As soon as our payouts are calculated based on our spending policy, and that is approved by the board, we send letters to our surviving scholarship fund founders letting them know what their payout will be and asking if they would like to add to it or if they would like to re-endow part of it. For example, if the payout is…

This is Duchess Lotti, aka Lotti, aka Lotti-Dotti, aka little ****, aka little monster :)

Love that chicken outfit--so cute!

@elizabethmesserli , that's a pretty great video!

We offer a nontraditional scholarship that is open each year until the funds are depleted. It is a restricted process in SLM. Students reach out to our education officer to explain their needs and if she thinks they fit, she provides the code. These awards can be used for certifications, full university tuition, or…

@KristenBertrand, we email applicants with processes in draft a few days before but we also keep in close touch with our school guidance offices. We update them regularly with the status of applications for the students in their schools as well as letting them know if there are recommendation requests pending. Many of…

@CarolReynolds, we have started down this road before to collect more information about their boards, but have pulled back because we do not want to add any undue burden to already super-busy people. We allow them to just upload their board list in whatever format they have. Then we have a question on each grant…

Hello, all you fine Hoosier folks! Our next Indiana virtual CSuite Meet-up is March 9, 2:00-4:00 pm. Invitations are rolling out next week but you can register here-- https://info.foundant.com/2022-03-09CSuiteINVirutalMeetUp_RegistrationLP.html Spread the word to anyone you know who is an Indiana CSuite user, please!

@StephSchneider thank you--we will look at putting that into our procedures for next year.

Our policy is to not accept letters of recommendation after the application deadline, but there is currently no way to keep them from being submitted in the system. I have added a suggestion for this improvement in the idea lab. If you would like to see this as well, please vote for it! Thanks! Carol

I would love to hear some feedback about a topic/topics for the next Indiana CSuite Meet-up. We are tentatively planning the meeting to be on March 9 from 2-4 pm ET.

Thank you, everyone, for joining us yesterday and participating in the discussion. I hope you found it a good use of your time. Someone asked me to review my "tip" I shared about how we handled memorial gifts and I forgot to go over it again. It is pretty close to the beginning of the recording (Brittany sent you a link)…

While we are campaigning for Idea Lab ideas, I would appreciate your votes for additional payment type options on recurring donations (for example, debit authorizations.) http://idealab.foundant.com/forums/597718-communitysuite-idea-lab/suggestions/34287346-duplicate-and-recurring-donations

After yesterday's virtual Indiana Foundant CSuite Meet-up, I took a look in the Idea Lab and I had posted in there already about getting an email when check approvals happen. I would appreciate it if you would vote! I took a stroll through and upvoted several that would be helpful as well. If you have an idea you would…

We treat our awards like scholarships without an application in SLM. Basically, we create a bare-bones application, enter the student into SLM, if they aren't already, and then proxie in as them to submit it. From then on, we just push it through like any other scholarship except without an evaluation stage. Does that make…

We have an organization in our county that does a college and career fair and we have a big display there with guidebooks and one-sheet helpful hints as well as a timeline for the scholarship process. We have never found a good way to work with colleges. However, we do send an email to everyone in SLM who hasn't graduated…

We work pretty hard at our relationships with our 4 county schools and their guidance offices. Here are a few things we do to help. We have a catalog of scholarship offerings that we call the Scholarship Guidebook--it's kind of a brochure on steroids! We get mailing lists of all incoming seniors from the guidance offices…

ETHAN!!!!!! It's so good to see you in Foundant-land!! Can't wait to hear some of that banjo picking!

Happy to share....

A few years back we went through our application processed and tried to simplify it as much as possible. As a Community Foundation, we have over 100 different scholarship funds, each with a different fund agreement. The fund agreement dictates most of our scholarship criteria, including letters of recommendation. We used…

Don’t forget to register for our next Indiana CS Accounting Meet-up! https://info.foundant.com/2020-10-29CSuiteINVirtualMeetUp_RegistrationLP.html

So, how do you deal with size restriction issues on videos? We just got a scholarship that is insisting it be a video "essay" no more than 10 minutes. A 10 minute video would be huge. Anyone run into file size issues?