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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…
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Is there a name for the feeling you get when submitting a grant application/LOI/RFP?
Or is it just adrenaline? 🤸♀️🤑🎉😝
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Outside Funding for an Employee Emergency Relief Non Profit
Hi, we are a nonprofit employee emergency relief fund helping our employees across the US through unforeseen financial hardships. We are proudly funded by employees for employees but would like to be able to learn if there are any outside funding/grant opportunities that we could explore to help with our limited funding.…
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Thoughtful Application Design [Connecting and Continuing the Conversation]
Hello, Friends! Our recent webinar on crafting applications that truly connect had some of our highest engagement. We're starting this discussion as a "hub" for the folks looking to connect with other attendees, continue conversations started in the chat (transcript to come), and build on the advice our presenters shared.…
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Capacity building grant application samples
We are in the process of updating our capacity building grant process. I am wondering if anyone offers capacity building grants and would be willing to share their grant application with us. Thank you.
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Negative Spendable Balance after posting grants and scholarships
Hi everyone, Our foundation has recently discovered that we are having some grants and scholarships post thru the system without flagging us that the spendable balance will go negative. It is not consistent and we have tried various scenarios to reproduce the problem. We've reached out to support and it has been escalated…
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As a CF, how do you determine who is eligible to receive your annual unrestricted grant dollars?
Our unrestricted Community Endowment has received its first large estate gift. To this point the grant distribution from the Community Endowment has been very small. We would like to learn more about the process to determine grant recipient(s). Does the community foundation have specific areas of interest when granting…
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Waivers for photos and videos uploaded to a follow up form?
We have a community grant program that has a primary focus of youth development and education. In follow up reports, we ask for a short story about how the grant dollars impacted those served by the grantee, as well as an area to upload photos and videos. Obviously, most of these photos and videos are normally of the…
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Unused Capacity Grant Funds
Are there other funders out there that always end up with unused Capacity Grant funds? It's an easy $5,000 with a simple request process. Thoughts on why our nonprofits do not want to take advantage of capacity-building dollars? 🤔
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Funding for religious organizations
I am interested in gathering sample language about foundation support for religious organizations. Our guidelines currently indicate that we will not make grants to organizations that engage in proselytizing as part of their mission or programs, but we feel that we need better clarification on that. I would appreciate any…
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Bridging the gap - Grants and vouchers having special handling instructions
We are having a disconnect where a donor has asked to have a grant check sent to them rather than to the nonprofit (they want to present the check or include a note with the check before mailing it to the nonprofit) or sent to a 3rd party address for processing (for example, the donor has requested we send the check to the…
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3rd Party Grant Management Fee
One of our partners (the city where we are located) has asked us about managing one of their grant programs. Now that we have GLM (just went live last month) this is a much easier concept and I’m wondering if anyone has any experience doing that in their city? Does anyone have experience in charging a fee for service, by…
