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Greetings!
Ciao! My name is Lisa Stachula and I am a new Client Success Manager here at Foundant! I live in Davenport, IA and I have a background in grantmaking, grantwriting, higher education and nonprofits. I enjoy cooking, outdoor activities and spending time with my family (2 boys, husband and dog). Excited to join the Foundant…
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Fees for Services
Hi all, We are in discussions with a local city to possibly run their annual grant cycle through our GLM software. We would create the process, vet applications, set up evaluations and participate in a Grant Committee meeting to determine awards. My understanding is we would hold a fund at the community foundation for this…
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Streamlining various grants cycles
Hi all, At Park City Community Foundation we have various grant cycles that support several of our initiatives. As we look towards strategic planning, we are brainstorming on how we might refine our various grant cycles (Community Fund, Park City Climate Fund, Solomon Fund, Women’s Giving Fund). Also, we acknowledge that…
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Grant Advisor Survey
Hi there - We're interested in implementing a survey for our grantees of our LOI and Application processes. I'm wondering if anyone here has used the https://grantadvisor.org/survey.php?ein=41-6038262 in their applications? If so, how did you word the question, how do you retrieve the results and what were your results?…
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Having a gratitude attitude
Hi everyone! I know how hard organizations work on crafting their fundraising appeals. And yes, I feel the pain of having 7 different managers read the ask and add their comments/edits. (As a friend says: Writing by committee is where good fundraising goes to die.) Let's talk thank you's: Expert advice is to prepare your…
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Video Applications and Reporting
Hi Foundant Community! I am reaching out to see if anyone here has experience with video reporting submissions? We are specifically looking at having our partners submit a video as part of their annual report, more like a programmatic update as to how COVID has impacted their work. We are looking into the logistical…
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Doctoral Research Study: Please Participate and Share
Greetings fellow Foundant Community members, I am in the final stage of my doctoral dissertation research, and I need your help! I am writing to ask for your assistance with my study to develop and validate an instrument that measures the public value and social impact created through cross-sector collaboration. I value…
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Looking for how to's and tips re beginning Professional Advisor engagement
We are looking for ideas, and resource samples - if you are willing, regarding Professional Advisor engagement. We don't have a formal "program" but would like to begin reaching out to Advisors to form partnerships. Can you share any info re the below? Your answer may fit in several of questions - just posing the questions…
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Reverse Scholarships
Good morning, I am interested in starting a reverse scholarship program in our area. Reverse scholarships allow graduates to receive assistance with student loan debt. Do any of you manage a program like this? If so, I have a few questions: Did you get a legal opinion before starting the program? Are you issuing 1099's?…
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Program Officer vs Senior Program Officer?
I am curious how other foundations delineate the job responsibilities between Program Officers and Senior Program Officers? If you have any examples of job descriptions that would be helpful as well. Thank you!
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Grant Type Interest
We are discussing expanding our Grant Type list. This is list is used both for Grant Types and for areas of interest for profiles. Currently we have: Animals, Arts and Culture, Education/Scholarship, Environment, Faith-based, Food/Agriculture, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Jobs, Maritime, Mental Health, Seniors, Youth. We…
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Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
Good afternoon! I am in the process of trying to define financial need for our scholarship program. I would like to target students that will not receive a Pell grant or any institutional aid. This is part of the formula I came up with "EFC greater than or equal to 6495 and less than 20000". I am trying to target students…
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Can you share your grant agreement language for multi-year grants?
We are going to start making multi-year grants in 2021 (woohoo!) and I am looking for examples of language / templates that others are using for their multi-year grant agreements. We have a solid template in Foundant for one-year grants, but would love to understand what needs to be written in there for mutli-year awards.…
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Hiring - PT Accountant (Blue Bell, PA)
PT Accountant (Blue Bell, PA) The Montgomery County Foundation, Inc. a small Foundation in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, looking for an amazing part-time accountant! I've attached the job listing but the quick information is: Part-Time Perform accounting functions We are starting Community Suite soon! HOW TO APPLY? If you are…
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Website Designer
Hello! As we embark on the Foundant transition, one of the items we identified as necessary is to employ a web designer to create the necessary pages to offer the donor portal, grantee portal, donate page, etc. Would anyone be willing to share the web designer they used and their experience? We are located in the Dayton,…
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How to reduce award displacement
During our webinar yesterday "Tips & Tricks for Working with Financial Aid" we shared a list of ways to reduce award displacement curated by National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) We hope you find the below list helpful, and continue adding ways that you are helping students to navigating working with financial…
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Let's talk about federal grants!
I'm interested to hear from our community about federal grants. Is your organization competing for and winning federal grants? Or have you been unsure or unready to jump into the federal grants pool? For those who are competing for federal grants, what advice would you give about what makes federal grant seeking different…
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Grants Administrator position --Field Foundation of Illinois
Hello! Please find the job description attached and information on where to send a cover letter and resume
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Hybrid In-person/Virtual Meeting and Workshop Equipment
Hello everyone! At the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council we are slowly reopening our office and will be holding our first in-person board meeting in September. For the past 17 months we have held every board meeting, panel review, and workshop in a virtual environment via Zoom. As we move towards more in-person events we are…
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Evidence-Based Programming
There is so much talk about using research and evidence to show that our programs are likely to achieve the outcomes we claim, but many people who write grant proposals are still looking for the best way to do that in different types of grant applications. What grant funders do you think explained what they wanted…
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What's Your Favorite Grant to Write?
We spend so much time, or at least I do, lamenting about the grant proposals with such limited character space, horrible portals, little money for way to much work, etc, etc. I thought it would be a nice change to hear about the applications you love. The ones that work, are easy to navigate, and don't take a billion hours…
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Community Foundation Grants to Non-501(c)(3)s
Hi there, I'm not sure there's been a discussion like this on this forum... Increasingly, we at Community First Foundation are finding opportunities to engage and better our community which lie outside of traditional 501(c)(3) grantmaking. What is your community foundation's process for making charitable grants to…
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Looking for a Foundant GLM consultant
Hello, We are looking for somebody to manage our GLM processes for the next few months. (Approval/Denials, assigning award agreement follow-ups, etc.) Please email me at mgoldberg@fieldfoundation.org if you are interested. Thank you, Michelle Goldberg Field Foundation
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Other funders seeing fewer applications submitted?
Hello. We’ve been getting fewer applications in recent weeks (possibly months), and we’re not sure of the reasons. One theory is that some NPOs are getting CARES money and are less reliant on grants. Are others experiencing this too? Thanks for any feedback!
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Coffee Talk: A Goal, a Path, and a Mission: Communications Planning at Your Foundation.
We had a great and lively coffee talk exploring how community foundations do communications planning and implementation. Let's continue the discussion here - especially for everyone who shared plans for their anniversary events! Here is the link to the recording: Thank you to all who participated and joined us and special…
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Expenditure Responsibility
Hi! I work for a community foundation and we don't typically award grants that require expenditure responsibility, however we have made the decision recently to do so. Are there any other community foundations out here willing to share their expenditure responsibility agreement template, reporting template, and…
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Seeking Executive Director for Chaffee County Community Foundation (CCCF)
Rapidly growing, 4-year old community foundation seeks full-time Executive Director for position in "The Heart of The Rockies". Located approximately 2-1/2 hours south and west of Denver on the Arkansas River, surrounded by 14,000' mountains, Chaffee County is a 4-season mecca for outdoor recreation, the arts and small…
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Follow your Favorite Discussion Categories!
Hi Compass Members! Many of you have asked for this one, and I'm happy to announce it's finally here! You can now "follow" specific subcategories, i.e. "Grant Writing" (shown below), Fundraising, GrantHub Q&A, etc. To view the options and customize your notifications, just look for the bell icon underneath the…
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Capital Projects- Payment After Work has Already Been Done
Good morning, We are encountering nonprofits who are completing grant applications while work is in process, and requesting funding after work has been completed. Does anyone have experience dealing with this? We have a policy that states we will not pay for work that was done prior to the grant award, but it seems to be…
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Finance administrator part time
We are a small CF team in Ohio, looking for an amazing part time person who is a CSuite pro. I've attached the job description but the quick info is: Remote Part-time / 8-12 hours hours a week (flexibility on how that's divided up) AP, AR, bank recon (all in csuite), Audit Letters associated with above tasks (thank you's…
