Community Rules
Welcome to Compass: A Foundant Community!
The Compass community has been created as a space for discovering solutions, learning helpful tips and tricks, contributing expertise and exchanging ideas with others in the philanthropic sector.
Here are our Community Rules:
Keep your posts relevant to the forum category.
Solicitation of funding or donations of any sort in public forums, private groups or private messages within this community is prohibited.
Please do not post any private personal information, sensitive organizational information or photos that you wouldn’t want seen by the public.
Do not post hateful or illegal content. Do not post copyrighted material without proper attribution.
SPAM will not be tolerated.
Please be respectful of others and don’t sweat the small stuff.
In short: Be kind, have fun, and let’s help each other enrich the philanthropic community!
Questions? Contact, community@foundant.com
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