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Creating Conversations About Board Diversity
For several years, we have asked our grantees to share information about who sits on their board and whether it reflects the community they serve. Our application includes a board diversity grid for them to use, but importantly it is designed for board members to self-identify. We want to avoid the applicant filling out…
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Making applications inclusive for individuals who are visually impaired
How are you making sure that your grant/scholarship applications are inclusive of the visually impaired? Do you create another version of the online application that is accessible to assistive technology such as a screen reader?
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Faith-based Scholarships
Hi all, We recently had a donor approach us to create a faith-based scholarship (Christian specifically). We currently don't have any awarding scholarships that have faith-based criteria. Does anyone have a fund like this? If so I would appreciate any information on how you ask this question and the essay question you ask.…
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DISASTER RELIEF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANT?
We are preparing for the upcoming drought/fire season here in Oregon and interested in creating a Technical Assistance Grant program for rural communities and Tribal nations in Oregon who have declared a disaster due to drought or wildfire. We understand there is an issue for these communities to hire/navigate the federal…
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Parent/Guardian Certification
We have previously had a parent/guardian certification section on our application. After the Foundant SLM series this fall we are considering dropping that section on all our applications. We do collect financial information on our need-based applications mainly in the form of a questions, FAFSA SAR upload, and school…
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Video Applications and Reporting
Hi Foundant Community! I am reaching out to see if anyone here has experience with video reporting submissions? We are specifically looking at having our partners submit a video as part of their annual report, more like a programmatic update as to how COVID has impacted their work. We are looking into the logistical…
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Budget Forms
We are looking for a new budget form for our applicants to use to upload in their application. Preferably a budget that contains a spreadsheet for the project budget as well as a spreadsheet for the applicant's full organizational budget. Does anyone have one they would like to share with us? Thanks so much! Kaitlyn
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Does anyone offer application coaching?
Hi all, During this year's selection process one of our evaluators noted that he could see potential in several applicants but their written responses were not as strong as other more talented writers and therefore their evaluation scores were lower. His recommendation was to coach these students through the application…
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General Operating Support Application Examples
Good morning, Our Foundation, the Pallottine Foundation of Huntington, is opening a new initiative that focuses solely on providing general operating support. If anyone has an application specifically designed for general operating support requests and would be willing to share it, we would be so appreciative. Thanks so…
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Sample -Lilly Endowment Scholarship application
Hello all, Our community foundation just transitioned to CommunitySuite (financial part). We will be transitioning to SLM in June. Our Lilly Endowment Scholarship application opens August 1st. For those outside of Indiana- It is a scholarship application for high school seniors from our county; every CF in Indiana…
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Show me your application!
I work for a school and as I am building my scholarship application for the first time, it would be helpful to be able to login as a student to some real-world examples. If you have scholarships, would you kindly share with me? You can delete me as a user at any time. Thanks
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Foundation Applications- Board & employee giving
Hi everyone! In your experience, what percent of foundation applications ask if Board members donate to the organization employees donate to the organization? Thanks in advance! Ephraim
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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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Scholarship Application Questions/Examples
Is anyone willing to provide a copy of their scholarship applications for reference in building our own? The Foundation strives to support medical students to hopefully end up practicing and staying local throughout their careers. Do you have any ideas on questions we could ask to align with our mission? Or general…
