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Indirect Costs
I am looking for input on how other funders handle indirect costs in grant budgets. I would be interested in any perspectives or policies that anyone can share. I know that there is a lot more discussion out there right now on recognizing the full cost of projects and allowing for more generous indirect cost rates. Marian…
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Contact List Management
How do others deal with external and internal contact list management, between Foundant and Excel for example?
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How often do you cut grant checks?
We only cut grant checks twice a month, it has been that way forever.
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Is there anyone willing to share their Grant Review Committees job description?
Hello - looking to institute an external review committee and wondered if anyone might be willing to share a job description example. Thank you in advance.
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Best practices - Evaluating Grant Applications
Being new to Foundant Grants - this is our first year - I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for doing an informative and useful application evaluation process for the reviewers? We've always used a simple worksheet. Going online with our grant applications, we changed up the application. I want to develop a process…
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Could anyone share the questions they use in their LOI process?
We've recently started using Letters of Intent (LOIs) as part of our grant process, but we’ve found that the questions we currently ask aren't providing us with enough useful information. If anyone is willing to share the questions they use in their LOI process, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your…
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Looking to move from an Annual Grant Cycle to Spring and Fall Cycle
Hello all, Our Foundation currently runs 1 grant cycle per year (4 different Grants), with applications opening in Feb to March. Then April/May are adjudications, decisions etc. and payments are in June. The funding usually targets projects for the summer and remainder of the year, but they can also use the funding up to…
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Grant Application Scoring Rubric
Hi everyone, Just curious to know how you all score your grant applications. We have specific questions on our application that are worth up to a certain number of points and displayed on the application for applicants to see the weight of that question. The Board then scores the responses to get a total score for an…
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Capital Campaign Grants
Our CF has typically not considered grant requests from nonprofits for capital campaigns for a couple of reasons, one being lack of unrestricted dollars to make such significant grants. Over the years, our unrestricted pot of grantmaking money has grown and recently we recently considered and awarded a large grant…
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How does your Foundation assess Final Reports from nonprofit and government agency grantees?
Hello! I am the new Community Investment Officer at the Hamilton Community Foundation. I'm curious how other foundations evaluate Final Reports from nonprofit and government agency grantees? We currently ask for the following: Project Goals and Anticipated Outcomes, Attainment of Goals and Lessons Learned, and Measurement…
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Categorizing Grants
I'm trying to figure out an effective method to tag grants within my various processes (both ongoing and past) so that I can categorize them based off of the social issues targeted. One idea I have is using the reporting feature to filter out certain grants but I wonder if I can achieve a tagging outside of this feature I…
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AI Generated Responses from Applicants
My organization uses Foundant for Grant, Scholarship, and Assistantship applications. We recently received two applications that were generated by AI (ChatGPT). The prompt to the essay was copied, pasted, and entered into ChatGPT and the response generated was submitted directly to the scholarship application as the…
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Unique Workflows with an Advanced GLM license
Follow up thread from GLM/SLM Expert Webinar | Unique Workflows with an Advanced License.
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Writable PDF of Grant Application
We've had a few grant applicants requesting a writable pdf of our grant applications. They prefer answering grant questions in a separate document and save before copying and pasting answers into the actual application. GLM has a "questions list" that can be downloaded/printed and the apply page has a preview of our…
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Preparing for Post Award Grant Management
During the educational webinar on post award grant management with Kristen Krey from Kim Joyce and Associates, many questions came up. We didn't get to them all. What questions do you have related to post award grant management? tracking indirect costs, grant spend down, systems to help track, division of duties within…
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Is there a place in the grant budget for facilities our nonprofit owns outright?
Through strong local support our nonprofit owns our campus and facility outright, so our grant budgets never include rent or mortgage. Yet it seems to me there should be some way to show this value in a grant budget. Afterall, this is money we don't have to spend to continue our programs. Can I show it in the budget as…
