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Hello!
Hi everyone! My name is Maggie Hickman and I am one of the new team members here at Foundant Technologies in Bozeman, Montana. I have over 8 years of experience in marketing and sales, and am passionate about building great relationships with my clients! Outside of my work at Foundant, you can find me playing music at…
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Hello from NE
Hello all, my name is Leah Droge and I'm from Lincoln, Nebraska. I am the Assistant Director of Program Development at Friendship Home, we provide crisis services, emergency shelter and transitional housing for survivors of domestic violence and their children. I've been a victim advocate for 16 years, but only started…
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Greetings from Indiana!
Hello! I am the Manager of Grant Development at Easterseals Crossroads in Indianapolis, Indiana. We provide comprehensive services to people with disabilities. While I have been at the agency for several years, I am new to the world of grant writing (I started this role in April 2020). I feel I have found my niche! I have…
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Diversity and Inclusion Language
I'd love to start a discussion about how we as grant professionals can impact diversity and inclusion by using better language in our grant proposals. One example would be using individuals experiencing homelessness instead of the homeless, so we don't label people by their condition. Another would be replacing…
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Outlook for Philanthropic Planning 2021
We live in a different world. The events of the last 12 months are unprecedented. Take a look at this insightful article on philanthropy in the year ahead. Kent C. Weimer, Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® Director of Trusts, Estates and Gift Planning Parkland Foundation
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Gender and Race Questions
This year we are adding - Non-binary and Prefer to self-describe. Are others of you doing this as well? We also are going to ask to identify yourself racially/ethnically with four different choices and open ended - specify. Again are others doing this and having you been doing this for awhile?
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Reporting to your Board
How does your organization report out to your Board? We have done simple info graphs but would like to change it up this year. I look forward to all your suggestions. Thank you
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Guelph Community Foundation - Now Hiring - Full Time Finance Manager
The Guelph Community Foundation is a charitable public foundation whose purpose is to provide leadership in promoting community philanthropy and enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Guelph and surrounding communities. The Foundation pools the charitable gifts of donors into permanent, income-earning endowments.…
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Coupon for 20% off of All About Grant Writing Online Course
Last week we had more than 1,200 people registered for The 3 C’s to Thriving in a Pandemic webinar! We had a great Q&A session, but even going overtime, were unable to get to ALL the questions which included: · How do you find new funders? · I have a hard time contacting family foundations. Often I find my messages don’t…
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Congratulations February Leaders!
Congrats to our Top 10 Compass contributors in February! You'll all be entered into a random drawing for a surprise pick-me-up. One winner will be selected. Thank you for starting compelling conversations and sharing your expertise with our community! @AudraClodfelter @AlyseBraaten @KristenBrandt @KarenWolf…
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Q&A on Grants!
Thanks for attending The 3 C’s to Thriving in a Pandemic webinar last week! When your mission is to help others get grants so they can do incredible things, there's nothing better than having 1,200 people attend your webinar from all over the U.S., Canada and throughout the world. We had a great Q&A session, but even going…
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The 3 C's to Thriving in a Pandemic
Are you tired of the grim statistics? ...that 11-38% of nonprofits will close down within 3 years, or that three out of five nonprofits had to cut costs last year due to the pandemic? Like you, I want to know the latest data, but even more so, I'd like to talk about what we can do to not just survive, but to THRIVE this…
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Hello everyone!
My name is Susan Remy and I am the Dir of Development at Child & Family Services, Inc. here in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The reason I joined this group is to meet others in my profession and expand my knowledge. Learning is a never ending process! I was born and raised in Fall River, MA and attended college at…
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Family Foundation Historical/Impact Reports
Hello! We are considering creating a historical/impact report for the Foundation's 15th anniversary. I've spoken with a couple of people who have created these types of things but would love recommendations on good reports you've seen/created and/or good consultants who specialize in this sort of thing. Our Board Chair…
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How do you define DEI?
The following graphic was shared in a Foundant presentation this week. I really liked how the DEI terminology was presented here, so I thought I'd share it with you!
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New Canada, Australia and USA badges!
Foundant has customers in Australia, Canada and the USA, and now we have badges for you to share your country pride on your Compass profile! You can also click on any badge to see who else has the same badge, and meet people with something in common! Click the Badges link at the top of the page, or the links next to the…
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New Australia, Canada and USA badges!
Foundant has customers in Australia, Canada and the USA, and now we have badges for you to share your country pride on your Compass profile! You can also click on any badge to see who else has the same badge, and meet people with something in common! Click the Badges link at the top of the page, or the links next to the…
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Determining When Your Foundation is Listed as a Beneficiary
Does anyone have a best practice for identifying when your foundation is listed as a beneficiary for an estate, an IRA account, etc? We ask our donors to let us know, but we have not historically had a great protocol for saving and storing this information and we are not certain we are aware of all of the accounts for…
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Hello from Atlanta!
Hello everyone! My name is Emma Wojack and I am from Oak Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago. I am one of the new team members here at Foundant technologies. I am a sophomore at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and I am a business administration student with a concentration in information technology management! I am on the club swim team…
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Scholarships and off-campus housing
My organization is trying to sort out how to best handle scholarships for off-campus housing (aka paying apartment rent). This has been a request from a few students who have explained that they've received a softball scholarship at their local community college (*with no campus housing*), but the school or coach (I'm not…
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Caramels arrived! Thank you!
What a lovely surprise that arrived today! And they are very very yummy 😋 Thank you ever so much! it's been fun learning from and chatting with everyone. I'm so glad we have Compass!
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Best Practices for Youth Engagement
We are preparing to launch a new program that would invite funding proposals from local youth (12-24 age range). We want to make the process accessible and invite creative approaches for applicants to share their vision and ideas. I'm curious to hear some ideas about the dos and don'ts when it comes to getting teenagers…
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Scholarship Processes Thought Partner Needed!
Greetings, I'm looking to have some scholarship process chat with anyone that is available. I need a thought partner. There are so many different processes involved with administering scholarships and renewals and my brain is fried as I'm trying to think through some more efficient processes! I'd love to talk through/pick…
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Volunteer Evaluators & Student Privacy
Hello everyone - we are looking to update some of our policies for scholarships, and specifically one for our volunteer evaluators that addresses student privacy. Our evaluators access the students applications through SLM, but I do know some of them print the forms out to review. We want to ensure proper destroying of the…
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Texting Service to Reach Students
Hi Compass Community! Our foundation is considering purchasing a text service so that we can better reach our students (our student advisory committee keeps stressing that this is better than email). I’m going to start doing some research on what options we have, but does anyone have recommendations for a texting service?…
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Scholarship funds for wraparound services
Good afternoon, I have a question about some of our affiliate scholarship funds. Have you ever applied variance power to named scholarship funds to provide wraparound services to students? We would like to change these funds since the affiliate has a Promise Zone that will be able to provide 4 years of full tuition…
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Seeking Arts Therapy funders
I research/write grants for a Canadian nonprofit wanting to do Art Therapy for those experiencing trauma & mental health challenges. I'm finding almost nothing in my database searches, re this specific interest -- but know these funders must be out there. Any suggestions?
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Need Based Scholarships for Private School Students
Wondering how other scholarship programs handle the issue of private high school student eligibility for their need-based scholarship opportunities. Currently, out of over 100 locally offered scholarships for graduating high school seniors, none have been created that specifically include private schools. Typically they…
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Temporary Job Opportunity - Part-Time Grants Manager (Mar-Sept)
We are looking for a temporary part-time grants manager to cover during maternity leave of one of our staff. We're open to remote candidates. See job description for more details.
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New to Foundant!
Hello everyone! My name is Ethan and I am an applied math major and varsity swimmer at Wheaton College! I am new to the Foundant team and am really looking forward to working with you! I used to work at a Community Foundation, primarily helping them implement Community Suite, so I hope I can be helpful! I enjoy spending…