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ACH Scholarship payments
Hello All, We've moved our grant payments to ACH, and now we're working on using ACH for scholarship payments. In the past, we mailed a check for each student award along with a cover letter. Sometimes that meant sending 10 or more checks and letters in one envelope to the school. For those of you currently using ACH for…
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Class rank as part of evaluation process
One of our local school districts will be eliminating class rank as part of their student data, and their guidance office reached out to me for some input. We don't use class rank as part of our scholarship evaluation, but I know other organizations may, so I told her I would reach out to other scholarship providers. Their…
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Scholarship for study abroad students not getting applicants
We are struggling to get applicants for a scholarship meant for students who will study in a foreign country for one semester or more. The application is fairly simple, so no roadblocks there. And it doesn't seem to matter what time of year I open or close the application. I've reached out to several global studies…
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Scholarship letters of recommendation
Will your organization or has your organization eliminated letters of recommendation from your scholarship applications? (Unless it's part of the scholarship fund agreement, of course). I'd be interested to know your organization's thoughts about that. Thank you! Lee O'Neil (she/her/hers) Community Foundation of Fayette…
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School and Student Name withheld in Fund statements
I'm curious to know if any of your donors have given you feedback about the new format for scholarship fund statements, now that the statements don't give any student information. In previous years, our scholarship fund statements indicated the name of the college or university. When we switched to CSuite, we were only…
