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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…
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Hello!
I’m from Door County, Wisconsin. I live about 1/2 hour from the Green Bay Packers stadium! Yes...I like cheese! I the Operations/Grants Manager at the Raibrook Foundation. Which is a private foundation.
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Survey to Colleges/Universities about Fall Plans
Hi all, I mentioned this during the 4-22 Scholarships Coffee Talk. We surveyed our 50-ish colleges/universities about their current plans for Fall 2020. Here's the survey in case others want to ask similar questions of colleges/universities their scholarship recipients attend.
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Scholarship Evaluation/Scoring Form for Applicants
Here is the scholarship application scoring/evaluation our selection committee members use to score and determine scholarship recipients for the ThedaCare Family of Foundations.
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Emergency Preparedness Plan?
Any organizations have an emergency preparedness plan and would be willing to share? Has your organization discussed how they will respond?
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Community Foundations with Annual Fundraising and/or Unrestricted Endowments
Hello Community! We are reassessing our donor recognition and looking for peers who recognize donors to their Annual Funds, Endowments, and/or initiatives run by the Foundation. In the past 24 months, our organization has ballooned with an Unrestricted Endowment and a rise in donors to our initiative work. Currently we…
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Dog-Versus-Hard-Boiled-Egg 🥚
OK a little late (this was from Easter) but #FurryFriday seems like a good time to share this! Lumi also does this silly thing with citrus fruit, especially Little Cuties. 🍊
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Thinking about the Class of 2020 differently?
My son happens to be a high school Senior this year. Based on watching him and his friends, I think scholarship providers will need to get creative to engage the Class of 2020 students. They are in a very different mindset when compared to prior classes. Most I know are feeling significant loss from all the cancelled…
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A congratulations is in order!
I'd like to extend a high five with both hands to @DavetteSwiney with the Central Kentucky Community Foundation for going live with their first ever public grant application process - to benefit Organizations with COVID-19 Relief funding. @AndrewBlessing
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Hello from Michigan!
Hi everyone. I am the grants manager at Fremont Area Community Foundation. I recently celebrated my ninth anniversary at the Community Foundation. Since the Stay Home, Stay Safe order was announced, I am one of a handful of employees that still come to the office every day. I am looking forward to meeting and learning from…
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Calculating Admin Fees-Using Average Daily Balance or Average Trailing Quarters
With the market declining so much in the past 2 months, I am looking at how our Admin fees are calculated. We have been using the Average Daily Balance option, but since I reconcile only once a month, the system thinks the balance stays the same until the end of the next month. This has resulted in higher admin fees than I…
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Dogs of Reynolds!
By popular demand--here are my furry coworkers!
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Hello for Jamestown, NY
I have worked for the Chautauqua (try and pronounce that) Region Community Foundation for over 6 years. Currently I am the Scholarship Officer and trying to navigate through all this uncertainty. Looking forward to others input. Stay safe and healthy at home.
