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West Coast Clients Represent!
Hey all, As one of only a hand full of Foundant employees in the Pacific Time Zone, I'd love to connect and help you all connect. If you want to, comment below with your name, title, organization and location. I'll start! Alyse Barrios Braaten Manager of Client Services- Grants and Scholarships Foundant Technologies since…
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Coffee Talk: Communicate for Good, May 11, 2023
Thank you for joining the discussion today! On today's discussion attendees talked about their communcaiton types, examples of noticing how communication types affect their meetings, pairing communcation types to create external communicaiton that reaches a broad audience, and using communication understanding as a way to…
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Let's talk scholarships!
At the Summit 2022, we had a great opportunity to have scholarship-based discussions with peers all over the country. I've tagged scholarship professionals who attended this year. Do you have any topics you'd love to continue to chat with your peers about? Please add some ideas in the comments, or continue on one of the…
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Scholarship Evaluation Committee Best Practices
I've heard several clients ask some great questions about scholarship evaluation committees over the past few weeks. I'll note my understanding of the Best Practice below, but I welcome other opinions and discussion. Committee Composition for Donor Funded Scholarships: Is it ok for a donor to be the only person selecting…
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Adjusted Follow Up Form Collecting photos and messages (Coffee Talk)
On today's Coffee Talk @LisaStachula shared about some changes they made in their follow up form to collect photos and more structured thank you messages from their students to create donor packets. She also talked about using a tool called ThankView. I've attached the follow up form here. Feel free to take a look.
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Foundation Turn Over (Grants and Scholarships Role Descriptions)
I know one reality of Foundation work is regular turnover. I've had many conversations over the years with clients seeking advice on job descriptions for Grant and Scholarship Coordinator/Manager/Directors and suggestions on how to call out Foundant familiarity/technical aptitude in those descriptions. If you have a…
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Scholarship Providers Regional Collaboratives
On our coffee talk today, @SarahBattersby mentioned their regional scholarship providers collaborative. Are you interested in creating a scholarship collaborative in your area? Do you have one already? We would love to hear both questions and advice in this discussion thread. I know I can't wait to learn more!
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Emergency Scholarship Funds
On the Coffee Talk today we had some great stories shared about starting and managing emergency funds. One important note is that though these funds are normally taxable income, the current federal recognition of a national state of emergency changes that. If you already offer emergency funding to students, please share…
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Assessing Financial Need During a Pandemic
We started a great conversation about Financial Need during this strange time. What questions are you asking students about their financial need? Are these different than your regular questions, if so how? How will use instruct your evaluators differently? Will you be working with donors in advance to discuss the concerns…
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How are we celebrating awardees in 2020 (since events can't be the answer)?
On today's coffee talk we had some great ideas surface around ways to celebrate our scholarship students in the current circumstances. We heard: Video exchanges between donors and students. Newspaper ads/articles with student photos. Yard Signs "I am a xyz scholarship recipient!" ( I personally think this sounds super…
