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Weighting Grant Evaluation Questions
We need to improve our evaluation process, and it has become obvious we need to weigh evaluation questions. As it stands now, rating questions on a scale of is helpful, but this does a poor job of weeding out bias. For example, I am seeing that even if there is a significant governance issue in an applying organization,…
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Community Service Grants/International Mission Grants
Hi All, My foundation is exploring two new types of grants: Community Service Outreach - grants would go to high school academies who have customized community outreach projects needed in their areas. International Mission - orphanage, K-12 education type projects Does anyone have experience in these categories / have…
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Online Payments for Grants
With everything virtual these days, I wanted to see if other Foundations are making online grant payments to nonprofits? We normally mail checks, but have been asked by a few fund holders if we can make online payments in lieu of sending a check. This is normally because of a specific fundraiser they are participating in…
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Illinois
Looking to connect with grant and program staff at community foundations in Illinois! I have added several contacts who I've chatted with already so we can keep the conversation going about grantmaking strategies and ideas for innovation. My role is the Director of Program Services at The Community Foundation for McHenry…
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Grantees and Legal Action
Hello everyone, Does anyone have a process for asking applicants and/or grantees if their organization is involved in any type of litigation? Thank you
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Working With Other Grantmakers In Your Geographic Area
I've noticed a recent trend with our GLM clients finding little ways to make their grant applications easier for applicants. Often times this means creating a shorter, simpler application - but what about creating more similar applications? Are there any grantmakers out there who are working together with other funders in…
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Compliance
Looking for some example checklists on compliance prior to grant awards/distributions. Checking their tax status is obviously one. What other tasks are done in your org in the compliance column? What is your internal process for compliance? Thanks.
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Phoenixville Community Health Foundation is hiring a Program Officer
The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation (www.pchf1.org) seeks a self-starter to become its Program Officer. The Foundation aims to improve the health and quality of life for people in the greater Phoenixville region by increasing access to quality healthcare services and promoting healthy communities through…
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Implementing a Letter of Intent into our unrestricted grant process
Good morning, At Adirondack Foundation we have never used an LOI with our grantmaking processes. I would like to hear from those of you who use LOI's as to how you streamlined your process with LOI's or if it just adds one more step? We are hoping to use an LOI as a way to help us narrow down larger funding requests we're…
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Grant Reports
Looking for some great examples of Grant reports as follow-up documents. I've got my paper grant report forms that I've been planning to integrate into the GLM as a follow-up. But I'm always looking to see if any one has a better report form, especially now that I'm doing this electronically for the first time. Thanks for…
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Thank you Weston Paul and Elsie Thomson
Dear @WestonPaul and @ElsieThomson , I just wanted to let you know how smooth everything went on opening morning for two of our grant cycles. We went live today and so far so good! I don’t think others on the team felt we would be up and ready to go in such a short time-frame, especially with me having no experience with…
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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…
