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Re: Curious about position titles
Marketing and Community Relations Specialist is the title we give a person who does similar things that you do. It was Communication and Admin Assistant before we updated the responsibilities.
Procedure for updating fund record in the event of death of advisor(s) or other life-changing event
Hello,
Would you be willing to share your process/procedure on how you document and update aspects to a fund record, in the event of fund advisor(s) death, divorce, or any other life-changing event?
Thank you!
Sally Hermann
St. Croix Valley Foundation
Re: Cohort Model Scholarships
Hello @gracetorres, I manage Lotus Scholarship for SYL Foundation, feel free to reach out to me to coordinator@sylfoundation.org
I am happy to share our experience via a zoom call.
Re: How do you monitor and support grantees around DEI work?
Hi @MaximilianEyle. I'm so sorry I didn't get to hear you and Sheria at Summit.
All great questions! I will definitely be following this thread. Our community is made up mostly of small nonprofits, so we will need to take that into account in relation to your questions.
We are just starting to look at these issues. We've created a new Grants Committee called the IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Aligned) Committee. It is made up of 3 staff, 2 Trustees (one a person of color, who is the Chair), and 5 BIPOC community members. Our goal is to seek out and encourage Black-led nonprofits, which seldom apply for our grants, to submit an application. We also plan to provide non-monetary assistance to the cohorts of grantees. Possibilities include membership in Maryland Nonprofit, training on governance, fundraising, etc., and communication about/access to opportunities outside our foundation they might be interested in.
We have had some struggles with defining "Black-led." We had discussed the possibility of requiring a certain percentage of board members be Black, or requiring the Chair (in addition to the ED/CEO) be Black. However, although it's still being discussed, we seem to be moving in the direction of keeping it broad (for now) and simply saying the organization must have an ED who self-identifies as Black.
If you, or others, have any advice for us, we are open to it!
Re: Assignment of grant reviewers
@ClaraHansen this is a really great question. So in your case, your reviewers were only assigned a handful of proposals to review, rather than ALL of them. I'm really curious to see what others say about this but from the workflows that I have seen, it's typically the same assignments. But whether that is done for consistency for the sake of the evaluator or for the ease of the grants administrator, hard to tell.
