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Connecting with donors
I"m curious what people are doing to connect with their donors while we are all working from home. Kent C. Weimer, Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® Director of Trusts, Estates and Gift Planning Parkland Foundation Chair, National Association of Charitable Gift Planners
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Scholarship Committee Member Job Description
Here is our job description that we provide our scholarship committee members at the beginning of each scholarship cycle. I have not updated this with the new timeline that we'll be working with COVID-19, but we still intend for them to be able to do their scoring entirely online and not have a need to meet in any way to…
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Hello from Central Kansas
Hey everyone! Like the majority of humans across the globe, I am working from home...My current "office" is an upstairs porch that is literally 4'x6', but has windows on 2 sides, which allows me to feel like I'm in a treehouse. I do very much enjoy watching the birds and seeing the squirrels jump from limb to limb and to…
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High community needs related to COVID-19
Our local health department has identified 2 potential needs, but we don't have an org who has done this yet: a. Provide deliveries of basic needs to Covid patients who are quarantined. b. Provide some type of shelter for Covid patients when released from the hospital who can't return home (they live with others who may be…
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Greetings from Michigan!
Greetings! I am the grant administrator for the Trinity Assurance Ltd. Grant Program. I have used Foundant to administer our program since 2016. Each year I add more functionality to my process and have come to love the system. I look forward to connecting to others to learn more about how you use the system and how I…
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Hello from Delaware!
Hello Compass world! I am the Scholarship Administrator for the Delaware Community Foundation; I am located in southern Delaware in a small town called Georgetown, while our HQ is in Wilmington. We are a staff of 15 doing great things to address Covid-19 and help our state NPOs through the crisis. Just finished our…
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High community needs related to Covid-19
Our local health department has identified 2 potential needs, but we don't have an org who has done this yet: a. Provide deliveries of basic needs to Covid patients who are quarantined. b. Provide some type of shelter for Covid patients when released from the hospital who can't return home (they live with others who may be…
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What do you love best about your team?
What do you love best about your Community Foundation team?
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Minnesota
Hi, My name is Courtney Whited and I am in Minnesota. Would anyone else find it beneficial if we started a Minnesota discussion group? Hoping to start a group. Thank you, Courtney
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Beyond COVID-19: Taking the next step
Hi y'all, During last week's Coffee Talk on Thursday (4/30), one of the questions posed was what does the next step in COVID-19 response look like? For many of us on that call, there are no clear answers or even a direction to start looking for answers. I wanted to try and continue the conversation here about what folx may…
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2020 IPA Virtual Conference: Philanthropy Leads
The Philanthropy Leads virtual conference brings new ideas and best practices from across the industry to foundations, corporations, and other impact-minded professionals working to enhance our society and environment. Join us online for inspiration, connection, and learning with your peers. Click here for more information…
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Thoughts/concerns about attending a virtual training event instead of live training event
As we look at new ways of providing training, what are your thoughts or concerns about attending a 2-day training event like You Fly, We Buy or regional User Group via Zoom.
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Hello from Truckee, CA
Greetings from Kathy at the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation from my home office in Truckee, CA! I deal with Foundation Services at the TTCF (AP/AR, grant due diligence and checks, payroll, contract management, database admin, remote banking, gift processing/acknowledgement, audit prep, board admin/minutes, quarterly…
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Shifts in Youth Philanthropy/Grantmaking Programs
Aside from working at Foundant, I am a mentor for our local Youth Giving Project where a cohort of 13 local high aged students help to decide grant funding of $10,000. With schools moving to remote, and stay at home orders in place we have made the decision to wrap up or programming for 2019-2020 early. Luckily, we had…
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Happy Earth Day!
There are a lot of cool ways to participate from home and digitally this year at earthday.org! Anyone have any plans for celebrating today?
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NEW FEATURE: How to receive notifications on new posts in Compass!
Hello! We have a new feature in Compass that allows you to set your notification preferences to be notified of new discussions and comments in the categories (ex. CSuite Q&A, Grant & Scholarship Applications, West Coast Regional Group, etc.) that are most relevant to you! Visit your profile area on the top right of the…
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"Work from Home Tips" blog by our friend Katherine Scott
I just saw a great blog by @KatherineScott at National Center for Family Philanthropy. We are fortunate enough to have Katherine right here in the community! The new nugget I'm going to check out next is that Tiny Scanner app mentioned. Thanks for this advice, Katherine!
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NCFP Disaster Response Webinar on June 12th
NCFP (National Center for Family Philanthropy) has a few upcoming open webinars on collaboration and grants including different responses, but this specific one shares from people who have done long-term disaster response, which I just think seems helpful. I liked the idea of speakers who have thought about a response…
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PEAK2020 Online Conference
PEAK2020 Online Conference registration is open to the many PEAK2020 conference registrants who generously supported them by forgoing registration refunds, along with all PEAK Grantmaking Organization Members. Click here for more information.
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Documentation required before sending a check to a college or university
I'm wondering what documentation we should be asking of the scholarship recipient before we can send a tuition payment to their college or university. In the past we've asked for a copy of the bill the college sends to the student during the summer. Is that adequate? Is there something else that would work just as well?…
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Scholarship Application Submission Numbers
Hi all, One thing I noticed this year is our overall application submission numbers were lower than 2019 and 2018. Did anyone else see that in their submission numbers as well? Our outreach was similar to years past, but with an obvious inability to reach out to schools since March 6th (spring break in Alaska), I missed…
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Hello from Darah in Bozeman
Hi everyone, I'm the Marketing Event and Partner Manager here at Foundant. If you have any questions regarding Meet Ups, User Groups, You Fly, We Buy, or our national user conference, Summit please post them in the 'Events' section under 'Resources'. I'm looking forward to meeting you!
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Hello from Central Indiana!
I support programming and finance at our community foundation, located in East Central Indiana. I work in GLM, SLM and CSuite all day everyday. I have been very pleased with how much support we have gotten since we first started our Foundant journey in late 2018. Some members of the Foundant team feel like coworkers! I am…
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Greetings from New York!
Hope this message greets everyone well during these difficult times. My name is Elizabeth Flores and I am the Community Impact Director at a national non-profit organization based in New York City. I oversee all of our national grant and scholarship programs. I am looking forward to connecting with other funders. Stay…
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Deadlines??
What is everyone doing about deadlines for your scholarship applications? Are you concerned? Or just waiting to see how things pan out.
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Online Webinars
Hi! I wanted to know if any of you all can recommend sites that offer great webinars (community foundation related). I enjoy the Coffee talks and also Bloomberg webinars but wanted to see if you all know of any other great sites that offer webinars. I appreciate your responses. Take care. Interested in webinars about Donor…
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How are you tracking PPP benefits and grantee relief?
Hello Everyone, A client wants to know how grantmakers/ funders are tracking applicant PPP benefits ( Paycheck Protection Program)? Continuing on the same theme, how are funders tracking grantee relief from various sources whether that be government or other organizations? Thanks!
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Blackbaud FIMS to Foundant Community Suite Migration
I am former Vice President for Technology at the Rhode Island Foundation. Since early 2018, I've partnered with Foundant Technologies and the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, and more recently, The Cape Cod Foundation, and The Community Foundation for Southeastern Massachusetts to facilitate migration from Blackbaud…
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Hello From Sunny Dallas Texas
Hello y'all, Thanks to Foundant for creating this community to encourage dialogue and inquiry. Thanks to @KaraAdams for inviting me to join. I'm the director of trusts estate and gift planning for Parkland Foundation. We are the charitable arm of Parkland Health and Hospital system, which is a large community hospital…
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Tracking fundraising
Hi all! We have a group who is interested in helping fundraise for our Covid-19 response fund. They would like directions to come directly to us, and only want us to keep track of how many donations come in through their efforts. We usually have separate funds for our different giving circles, and haven't really tracked…
