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Fund Types
Good afternoon, I have a few questions regarding field of interest and designated funds. Do any of you allow a field of interest fund to have more than one field of interest? Example: Smith Field of Interest fund, grants for animal welfare and education. Do any of you allow designated funds to benefit more than one agency?…
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Fund Types
Good afternoon, I have a few questions regarding field of interest and designated funds. Do any of you allow a field of interest fund to have more than one field of interest? Example: Smith Field of Interest fund, grants for animal welfare and education. Do any of you allow designated funds to benefit more than one agency?…
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Foundant consultant role - company is hiring
Hello, our company is looking to onboard a Foundant consultant. The description of the role is below. If interested, please send your resume and a cover email to HR@accesslex.org. Feel free to share. Thank you! AccessLex Institute (the “Company”) is a non-profit member organization underpinned by nearly 200 American Bar…
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What if your office ends up with COVID-19 cases?
Hi all! I help a couple foundations here in Portland, OR with a small number of staff. As part of our resiliency planning, each staff member is identifying folks that could step into parts of our roles and help our foundation keep funding during the worst case scenario that our office has a COVID-19 related staffing…
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Caramels for comments? You heard right!
A very special limited time badge is here! Check it out! Not sure how many comments you've left so far? Visit your profile page and you'll see the number under your profile picture!
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Multi-fund signature page
I would like to ask if anybody has and/or is drafting fund agreements with a signature page to accommodate when donors would like to establish multiple funds? We recently had a donor that was interested in establishing a scholarship, field of interest (with multiple purposes,) and designated (with multiple purposes.) Thank…
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Hello from southwestern Indiana!
I am the Director of Communications for the Community Foundation Alliance. We just converted our CRM/financial software to Community Suite, and we currently use Foundant for scholarships/grants. Excited to be fully engulfed in all things Foundant!
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Homepage Changes
To accomodate our expanding community, we've recently made a couple changes to our homepage here in Compass! Now, when landing on the homepage at community.foundant.com, you will see two, separate communities. **Make sure you are SIGNED IN to view all the categories and participate in all the discussions to which you have…
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8 Quick Tips for Making the Most of Compass
Here are 8 Quick Tips for maximizing your experience in our community: STEP 1: Review Our Community Rules It's an easy read! STEP 2: Update your Profile Click on the round Account Options icon on the upper right of your screen and select "Edit Profile". Upload a picture so we can put a face to your name! Update the job…
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Glad to be here...what's new with you?
Hi all! Thanks, Tammy, for the invitation to join this group and facilitate more great discussions among grant seekers, foundations and everyone who wants to make a biiiiig difference in their community and world! I'm Margit. In 2009, I founded Grants4Good LLC (www.grants4good.com) to help nonprofit organizations find and…
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Introduction
Good day. My name is Ardrina Scott Elliott. I am the Development Director for a private K-12 School in ST. Thomas, Virgin Islands. I look forward to getting to know you all, and to learn from this forum.
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Hello!
Heya from Denver, CO and the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce!
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Hello from Rhode Island!
Hope everyone is healthy and well.
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As the Postcard says: Greetings from Fabulous Las Vegas!
I'm the grant writer/coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation. I work with private foundations, corporations, professional associations, and other private funding sources.
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Compass Construction - September 8th
Compass will be undergoing improvements on Tuesday, September 8th, and will not be accessible for the majority of the day. If you have any questions, you may reach me at community@foundant.com. We look forward to showing off our new look next week! Kara Community Manager
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Hello from Alabama . . .
via Indiana, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Knoxville!
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#TuesdayTip: Signatures
Did you know you can set-up a signature that will automatically be added to the end of all of your posts? Just visit your account in the upper right corner, and click Edit Profile. On the left side bar, click Signature Settings. If you haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet, do that while you’re there!
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Phoenixville Community Health Foundation is hiring a Program Officer
The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation (www.pchf1.org) seeks a self-starter to become its Program Officer. The Foundation aims to improve the health and quality of life for people in the greater Phoenixville region by increasing access to quality healthcare services and promoting healthy communities through…
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Adjusting for New (COVID) Scholarship Season
What are your organizations doing to adjust for the upcoming scholarship season? Ours typically "runs" from November 1 through late July. What will you do different because of COVID19? Are you going to shift due dates around? Our deadline was February 15, 2020 which we bumped back a week to account for some non-COVID…
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Logic Models! More Than Just Extra Work!
Hello Everyone! I am so excited about our Logic Model webinar tomorrow! If you have any burning questions, please respond to this discussion and I will try and incorporate the answers into our session. I look forward to working with you! Alice Ruhnke
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Board meeting presentation for small annual grants, fundraisers and memberships
I am seeking suggestions on board meeting presentation of hundreds of small annual grants rather than just going down a list. I have now added categories and I am dividing them by time of year paid which helps make the long list visually not as terrible. Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to present the…
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Hi Y'all, from Justin TX
Hi All, My name is Julie and I work for a large health system in their Community Health Improvement Department. I've been a Foundant Admin for our Community Impact Initiative since 2019, so I am still "fakin' it, til I make it!" I work with @BethHarrison and we've had quite the adventure this last 18 months of learning…
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Fees Associated With Hosting Applications
I am the Scholarship and Programs Associate for a Community Foundation in Georgia. Our scholarship portfolio is small. We have funds with their own grant or scholarship process with us only providing a link on our site while others ask us to manage the entire application and selection process for them. As we continue to…
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International Dog Day!
I hear it's international dog day, which seems like a great excuse to share more dog pictures! Let's see those pups! (This is Bella's excited face) 😂
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Kansas
Welcome to the Kansas discussion group!
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Sending Scholarship Funds Electronically
We would like to stop sending some scholarship checks to colleges via the mail. Are any of you electronically sending scholarship funds? Is there an issue with the Student ID or batching checks? We thought we might test the process with a smaller local University vs a state University. Are we biting off more than we can…
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ABFE is Hiring a VP of External Affairs
Courtesy post for ABFE: https://www.abfe.org/about/
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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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Helpful security reminders to keep you and your organization safe!
With many of us working from different locations or with different computer setups than we may be used to, it's important to remember to protect yourself - and your organization - from cyber criminals. Here are some helpful tips: Password Security: You wouldn’t give a stranger the keys to your house, so why make it easy…
