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Re: Frustration - why won't students complete follow ups
Hey all - very good stuff here! We are currently soliciting feedback in Idea Lab regarding volume of how many texts you would like to send. Feel free to weigh in!
What is your organizations plan for attending events and conference this year?
Hello Philanthropic friends.
As we roll into 2022, would like to learn your game plan for attending LIVE nonprofit conferences and events this year. I always found conferences energizing and loved connecting with peers from around the country/world!
It appears that LIVE events are making a comeback after a long COVID induced break. What's on your calendar for 2022, even 2023?
Re: Scholarship letters of recommendation
Hi Lee,
Our scholarship process does not utilize letters of recommendations, and instead uses a reference questionnaire using the third party functionality. It is two "bullet" style questions, and one longer, free form written answer. This seems to be less taxing on the person who is recommending the student, but also gives them the option to copy and paste some text from a letter of recommendation if they have already written one for a student for other opportunities.
Danielle
Re: Measuring progress at a Community Foundation through data analytics or key progress indicators
Hi Kim-
We haven't yet created our Dashboard - we've been trying to narrow down what we want our information to include. But, I do have information that I received from others when I started this conversation, which was on the thread that I originally started - did you see any of those attachments that people sent to me? If not, I've attached them below.
Also, we're planning on using some tools that are present within our Community Suites software. I'm assuming you are using Community Suites software? If yes, when you pull up a fund, and click on History on the left side of the page, it brings up graphs etc. that can be used to make presentations. For example, if your foundation has its own Endowment Fund that you are trying to grow, you can pull up that fund and click on HIstory. You can also run reports from Community Suites such as: New Funds created, grants awarded, scholarships awarded, donations received, number of agency funds created. And you can do this per year, so you can compare from year to year.
I'm attaching the two dashboard examples I got from others.
Let me know if this helps at all, and once we put ours together, I'll gladly send it. :}
