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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.
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Hello Everyone!
My name is Angela Savino and I'm on the HR team at Foundant. I live in Belgrade, MT with my partner Clint and our pug, Michael Puglas. I'm originally from Longmont, CO and moved to Montana a few years ago and absolutely LOVE it here. My role primarily focuses on recruiting and I get to be involved in some pretty great…
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Hello from San Antonio Texas!
My name is Jennifer Bligh and I am the Impact San Antonio Foundant liaison. I enjoy working in Foundant to what some might call a disturbing degree. I am guessing the same might be said for some others in this group. I have a day job, but it's lunchtime, so I'm catching up on Impact stuff, including joining this new…
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Joining from Central Oregon :)
Hello Compass community, I'm joining you from Central Oregon and look forward to seeing and participating in the brainstorming here. Rebeckah (Bend, OR)
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Hello from Chicago
I'm Aaron Spevacek. I'm one of Foundant's solution engineers, which means I get to think about how to best solve real world problems with our software. Please reach out to me if you have questions about our products, how to use the, or where they fit in the lager sector. Like a lot of us at Foundant, I came out of the…
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Hello from Hampton, VA!
Hi everyone! I am Jennifer Brambley with the Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia. We are a relatively small Foundation of 5 employees total, but we like to think BIG! I manage the day-to-day accounting, grant making, donations, etc. I also manage employee hardship funds for 5 companies here on the Virginia…
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Greetings from My House! (which I'm stuck in)
My name is Jake Sharp and I run our Support Team and Internship Program here at Foundant. I'm originally from St. Louis, Missouri but moved out here to Bozeman for college (and a girl, if I'm being honest) in 2013. I joined the team as an Intern in 2015, and came on full time as a Client Success Manager after I graduated.…
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Collaborative/Pooled Funding/COVID Crisis Program
If your community is launching a single application for a collaborative grant program and pooling funds to respond to the (enormous) COVID-19 impacts, please share your experiences. Stay well, Stay home.
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Loreto, Mexico
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Hello from Bryan
Greetings from the southeast corner of the US! I work for Foundant as a product manager for Community Suite. So what's a product manager? The short answer is we are essentially internal consultants for everything related to your experience - the software features, support, training, sales, etc so our most vital function is…
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Hello from Orlando!
Hi! I'm Meghan from Central Florida Foundation. I'm the EVP & CFO at Central Florida Foundation and currently "teaching" my 3rd and 8th graders while we each adjust to being at home all the time. It's been a great experience for us.
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Hello from Philly/Delaware
Hi, everyone! I work at Delaware Humanities, but I live in Philly. Since Foundant is one dog-friendly place, I thought I'd go with a Wookiee photo rather than mine - he's far more photogenic! I'm all about connecting nonprofits, community organizations, museums, historical societies and helping them get their projects off…
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Greetings from West Virginia
Hello Everyone. I am a Program Officer for The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley in Wheeling, WV. We serve 6 counties in the Northern panhandle of WV and 2 counties in Eastern Ohio. I manage all competitive grant programs, donor advised funds and I direct our summer internship program.
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Hello from Omaha, NE
Hi Everyone I am excited to see what this new feature brings for all of us. I hope everyone is safe and healthy and if ordered practicing 'social distancing'. This is definitely a weird time we are living in now. I am the Grants and Data Admin for Nebraska Arts Council. We've been on Foundant going on our 3rd year and I am…
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Greetings!
Hello from Bozeman-based remote home office!
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Happy Monday!
Thrilled to see the Compass being rolled out this month! 😃 I am excited to see how this will help us all impact the philanthropic community. Can't wait for the discussions to begin! Marius
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Hello from Tracy!
I work at Foundant and I'm based in Foundant's Bozeman Headquarters...normally. For the time being during quarantine I have a corner office (aka, the corner of the bedroom) with my goofy office dog Lumi pictured below. My area of focus is working with community foundations as they research whether Foundant's solutions are…
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Howdy!
My name is Henry, a Client Success Associate at Foundant, based in Bozeman Montana. I am excited to see all of the industry and tech solution knowledge sharing that the community can offer us! I find that many people are looking for examples of what others are doing, and this will be a great place to facilitate those…
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Hey Foundant! This post is coming to you from sunny North Carolina :) Stay healthy everyone!
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Hello from James Meyers!
Hi everybody, My name is James Meyers, and I am a client services intern at Foundant Technologies! I am here to learn new things, hopefully help people out, and overall just experience the community much more!
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Hello!
Hello from home office! My dog Madi would say Hi, but she's busy napping. Thanks for getting this up and running Kara!
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Hello from Lake Mary, Florida!
I am super excited to roll this out to our clients. They have so many questions about how other Foundation's handle different processes. This should be a great resource for them to connect to each other and share best practices!
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8 Quick Tips to Maximize your Compass Experience
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…
