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How and when do you plan for year-end giving?
Supplemental conversation about our webinar with @KristinRaack, Planning for Year-End Giving Now to Minimize Stress and Maximize Results.
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Webinar follow up - Connecting Your Scholarship Program to Your Organization's Strategy
@JuliaDaSilva from the Triangle Community Foundation shared how they have made significant changes to their scholarship administration practices to align their scholarship program with the foundation's overarching strategy. In this webinar, she highlighted changes they made to their application to remove barriers for…
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Interested in learning cohorts around Community-Centric Fundraising?
Foundant recently hosted a Sector Education Webinar where Park City Community Foundation shared how they are supporting Community-Centric Fundraising. During the webinar, many attendees expressed an interest in learning cohorts for this topic. We'd like to open this discussion for funders to share about existing learning…
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What is your biggest challenge with your budgeting process?
Comment below, it can be for either your organization's annual budget, or related to managing grant budgets. Supplementing the conversation from our webinar with Jitasa, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting: A Plan for Financial Success. Watch here.
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Storytelling Questions on Final Report
I attended the Storytelling Webinar yesterday featuring the City of Muskogee Foundation. It was mentioned that the Storytelling questions they use on their final report would be posted on Compass. Where can I find those questions? Thanks! Additional, related discussion here:
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Follow Up Forms (Share the Story)
In response to some of the comments regarding the webinar, Connecting Your Impact Reporting To Your Community Through Storytelling, I wanted to share the City of Muskogee Foundation's Follow Up Forms where I add a required question for grantees to share their story in narrative form with the option to upload additional…
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How to reduce award displacement
During our webinar yesterday "Tips & Tricks for Working with Financial Aid" we shared a list of ways to reduce award displacement curated by National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) We hope you find the below list helpful, and continue adding ways that you are helping students to navigating working with financial…
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Career Resilience - Questions
Earlier this week we had a chat with grant professionals about the challenges we face and how career resilience is so important to succeed and advance in the grants profession. We're curious about your thoughts on career resilience. -- How do you define career resilience? -- Why is resilience an important skill to…
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Using Agile in Your Fundraising Teams
I'm so excited for today's webinar about using Agile methodologies in fundraising teams! Two of the things I'm excited to hear from YOU about during the webinar and here in the discussion afterward are: 1 - What are the impediments that you see in your team related to breaking down communication silos? 2 - What are the…
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Resilient Philanthropy: #FixtheForm and Application Streamline
We had a fantastic webinar today where @KariAanestad shared the work of #FixtheForm and 100 Forms in 100 Days. After talking through the initiatives, Traci R. Johnson, Program Officer at the Poise Foundation, shared the experience of streamlining their forms and partnering with grantees through Critical Needs Funding…
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How is your fundraising different in 2021? What are your biggest challenges?
All- Excited to lead a webinar on resilient fundraising strategies in 2021 this week. As part of that, I'd love to hear from you all. How has your nonprofit fundraising evolved in the age of COVID-19, and what are the biggest challenges you face? If you had a magic genie lamp and could wish for any kind of support (aside…
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The 3 C's to Thriving in a Pandemic
Are you tired of the grim statistics? ...that 11-38% of nonprofits will close down within 3 years, or that three out of five nonprofits had to cut costs last year due to the pandemic? Like you, I want to know the latest data, but even more so, I'd like to talk about what we can do to not just survive, but to THRIVE this…
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Prospecting for Good-fit Funders
Hello Foundant Community I'll wager that many of you have your funder research approach nailed down and refined to laser precision. And I'll also bet that some of you are just getting that piece of the puzzle into place. Either way, this part of a grant professional's work is critical and continuous. It weighs heavily in…
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Adapting Your Programs for COVID-19
There is no denying it. Every nonprofit organization has been impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another. I've seen some clients pivot their programs in the following ways: an arts organization that used to offer theatre performances in person for the price of admission, now offer their performances virtually. Instead of…
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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…
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Online Webinars
Hi! I wanted to know if any of you all can recommend sites that offer great webinars (community foundation related). I enjoy the Coffee talks and also Bloomberg webinars but wanted to see if you all know of any other great sites that offer webinars. I appreciate your responses. Take care. Interested in webinars about Donor…
