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Hello Canadian friends! Does anyone in this discussion group create letter templates (such as fund statements or tax receipts) in both English and French? Whether a unique template for each language or alternatively a template that has both French and English? If yes (or even if the answer is no!) do you have any…

@CarolReynolds That is such a great picture of both of the "wild child" members of your family 🤣. Congratulations, and best wishes in all the new puppy craziness!

@MaximilianEyle Exponent Philanthropy recently (February 9) posted actionable ideas around board diversity and also has a "Advocacy Field Guide for Lean Funders." The field guide is a paid resource ($35 for EP members, $50 for non-members) but the ideas in the initial blog is open/not behind a paywall. This doesn't…

Here is an idea: "Power of Partnerships Grant" or "Transformative Impact Grant" @TomWickersham Confession: I cheated just a bit and looked at your mission statement. The thing that really jumped out at me was your collaboration value, but really the whole mission statement feels like it has all sorts of possible grant…

An update of this discussion for the 2021-2022 scholarship year! There is a great article on changes to #FAFSA found at the link below. It requires a (free) login, but once you subscribe you might find it an an interesting newsletter to follow if you are working with #scholarships.…

Oh those EYES!!! on both of them!👀

Hello to all! I noticed a Canadian grantmaker posted a question about fees charged to run another organization's grant program. If you have input or ideas (or are also interested in answers!) please click on the link below to share.

Welcome to the community @RhondaReichert ! I want to make sure to invite you to a discussion area we created for our Canadian community foundations to make it easier for you to connect with one another if you have country-specific discussions you would like to start. This board is open to Canadian community foundations,…

Here is the Q&A from the 8/20/2020 User Group Meeting for Kansas Association of Community Foundations (KACF): -------------- Fund always gives to 4 organizations. Is that handled as a finite amount or a percent? Recurring Grants are set-up as dollar amounts. Beneficiary grants are broken out by the designated percentage.…

These are great tips! Another suggestion is to consider a tool like LastPass to generate and store passwords. This allows you to have secure, random, unique passwords for everything without having to remember them.

Ohhhhh, Pearson's nut rolllllllssss!

Hi Courtney! There is an Arts and Humanities group on Compass that is mostly made-up of state, municipal and local arts and humanities organizations. Here is one conversation going on related to storage of documents for auditing purposes after you shift to online applications that might be of interest. Fun fact: There is…

Welcome to the Canadian regional group, @WendyNeufeld ! We are happy to have you here. Just let us know if we can help with the shift, even if it is for moral support during the transition. For now here is a brand new announcement that Community Foundations of Canada made about a join effort focused on the environment…

I got the toy at a local shop, but the maker is Outward Hound based in Colorado. You can even buy replacement chipmunks if any get lost chewed-up! https://outwardhound.com/ When I googled I see that the one I have is now on sale at Chewy.com. Another shameless pet-toy plug: West Paw Design has wonderful made-in-Montana…

My office-dog, Lumi, helps me keep active while I work. In addition to the walks I also find and hide her chipmunk toys to keep her busy.

Working from home never looked so good! #FurryFriday

I'm so happy to see you in the Community, @MichelleCollins !! We set-up a unique discussion area for Canadian clients if you would like to post anything specific to Canadian practices or challenges.

My dog is loving having everyone home, but still gets a little stir-crazy by #FurryFriday

I'm so excited to see you here, Kathy! We need to get you a You-Fly-We-Buy badge. I look forward to the day we can visit you all in Truckee again!

My son's ski team did a compilation video for their graduating seniors and another that was the overall team video. It was mostly still-photos scrolling through and set to music. This was graduation, not a scholarship, but the same process could apply: One of the team athletes had the skill-set and time to volunteer the…

It is so nice to see you here @ErikaOrsulak aOrsulak and to hear about the great work you are doing! 😊

Thanks so much for being a part of the community @LornaSandberg ! Also I love your profile picture! You definitely deserve the dog-person badge. An idea as you expand your online giving options: @StuartReid at Community Foundation Grey Bruce had a really insightful take on generational differences in giving styles - see…

This was a topic in the first COVID Concerns Coffee Talk For Grantmakers. @CateSitton from The Anderson Foundation shared a win-win-win approach to help get meals delivered and also help folks who are out of work. Click here to get to the written notes from that Coffee Talk. Here is the relevant text from that part of the…

Here are pictures from Foundant's All-Staff Meeting in Summer 2019! @MargaretOwenSpiak @BryanGeary @TylerReichhoff and just a little bit of @AshleyHarper can be seen along with our little furry visitors. Not sure whose foot is getting chewed on there. #FurryFriday #dogsoffoundant