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Scholarships - Survey of Applicants, Evaluators
Hi all, I really appreciated attending the Foundant Coffee Talk last week. We are considering sending a survey to our applicants about their application experience. We will also be having discussions with our Evaluators regarding this last scholarship cycle. If you already survey your applicants and evaluators, what are…
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Outreach for National Scholarships
We are looking for ways to increase our reach and impact for our national scholarship program, shifting from select partner colleges (8-10 total in the past) to a larger national scale (jumping from ~50 scholarship recipients per year to potentially 200-300 scholarship recipients per year). How do other scholarship…
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Pooled Scholarships
We recently had a conversation with a new board member who wanted to know if he could donate a small amount of money for a scholarship. We had a long discussion about how we seek endowments on scholarships due to the amount of work involved….i.e. every scholarship has different criteria and is therefore a different…
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Scholarship Application Questions/Examples
Is anyone willing to provide a copy of their scholarship applications for reference in building our own? The Foundation strives to support medical students to hopefully end up practicing and staying local throughout their careers. Do you have any ideas on questions we could ask to align with our mission? Or general…
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Evaluations & Scoring
Hello everyone, This isn't a technical question per sae, but I was wondering how other organizations evaluate or score qualitative responses. Having just completed our very first bursary cycle I was struck by how emotional the committees members evaluations were. We all found it incredibly difficult to be scoring one…
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Moved: Adding Additional Funding to a Previously Given Grant
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