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Women in Philanthropy education session
Hi all, We offer a donor/fund holder education series and this fall we'd like to host a session with the topic of Women in Philanthropy. Women often lead the philanthropic direction for their household and traditionally live longer. In this session we'd like to educate and empower our female fundholders in their charitable…
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Scholarships -- Determining Financial Need
Hey everyone! I am building our application with Foundant and using this as an opportunity to re-think some of the questions on our application. Several of our scholarships are based on financial need. Currently, I ask students to list their estimated college expenses, scholarships they have for the upcoming year, and…
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FAFSA Challenges - What did you do?! Coffee Talk
We had a great live Coffee Talk about FAFSA at the Foundant Summit Conference. Here are some comments from the participants, grouped by theme. Please add thoughts & ideas of your own - We can revisit this next year when we do it all again! FAFSA CHAOS: WHAT DID YOU DO?! We bailed on the whole FAFSA thing and instead went…
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ACH Scholarship payments
Hello All, We've moved our grant payments to ACH, and now we're working on using ACH for scholarship payments. In the past, we mailed a check for each student award along with a cover letter. Sometimes that meant sending 10 or more checks and letters in one envelope to the school. For those of you currently using ACH for…
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Hello Everyone!
My name is Amber Kurth and I am one of the new Client Support Interns here at Foundant. I am a Junior at Montana State University studying Business Marketing. I am originally from Orland, CA, but my family has since moved to Kalispell, MT. I enjoy cooking, reading, camping, Bobcat games, spending time with friends and…
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Greetings!
Hello everyone! My name is Quentin Courtney and I am one of the new Client Support Interns here at Foundant Technologies. I am originally from Missouri, but have spent time post-college in Colorado as well. Some things I enjoy include hiking, golf, and video games. I look forward to working with you all!
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Fund Holder Identification
We received an email from a gentleman interested in opening a DAF. We do not recognize the name and he said he would call but he is traveling overseas. We have been communicating via email and he is very interested in starting a fund. I am a little nervous because all of the identity theft and so forth going around these…
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Scholarships are in, now what
I'm looking for best practices or procedure list of how to process scholarships through SLM before sending apps to evaluators/selection committees. Do you review them and abandon ones that clearly don't qualify, etc. and then mark the app complete, etc? Would appreciate your insights or any shared docs of procedures.…
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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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Out of Country Scholarships
Hello! Does your Foundation have a policy for scholarships when the University is out of the country? For example, a US student, that meets all of the requirements of the scholarship, but the University they are planning to attend is located in a different country. (Note: This is not a Study Abroad program). How do you…