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Looking to move from an Annual Grant Cycle to Spring and Fall Cycle
Hello all, Our Foundation currently runs 1 grant cycle per year (4 different Grants), with applications opening in Feb to March. Then April/May are adjudications, decisions etc. and payments are in June. The funding usually targets projects for the summer and remainder of the year, but they can also use the funding up to…
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Tips for creating and forecasting a managed funds budget
As we all strive to effectively manage and grow our funds to support our mission and community, I’m interested in learning more about best practices for creating and forecasting a managed funds budget. Specifically, I’d like to hear from you on the following points: Revenue Projections: How do you estimate investment…
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Annual transfer of Operating Net Income to a Reserve Fund?
Wondering if anyone else has worked out the mechanics behind this kind of a transaction. Essentially we have an 'Operating Reserve' and each year the Net Income (with a few adjustments for fixed asset acquisitions and depreciation) is intended to be rolled into that Operating Reserve. The way we are set up now we have the…
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How do you reverse a donation?
We have a donation posted to a Profile which is actually from several Donors. We need to reverse the original donation and post the correct donations. (We have posted a negative donation amount and this works, but we've found you can't edit a negative amount in the Donation record.) How do you post a reversal of a donation?
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Mobile App for staff expenses
This is a rather practical question. Our staff have travel and office expenses paid personally to be reimbursed by our Foundation. Is there a reasonably priced Mobile App that you might suggest to capture and categorize the receipts to make things easier and less time consuming for our staff and bookkeeper?
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Best Practices for using ACHs
Hello, Our foundation is thinking of moving away from checks and utilizing ACHs to make our grant payments. I was wondering how other organizations that are using ACHs get the banking information from the recipients. Thank you for your input. Linda Cleveland
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Recurring ACH donations
Does anyone use Stripe to process recurring ACH donations? Is there a way to link these donations to a promise or pledge?
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New Fund Checklist
We're new to CSuite and coming from an "undocumented" FIMS environment. Wondering if anyone has a New Fund checklist you'd be willing to share...
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Who is using Foundant CRM very well
We need help! We are currently in CSuite but has not moved our CRM to Foundant we are still using Raiser's Edge NXT but we are wanting to move over to Foundant CRM quickly. However, we don't know what we don't know. Are there any foundations that is utilizing the CRM very well. How are you utilizing the moves management…
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Best practice for inviting applicants to apply
I am working with a Foundation that is implementing Foundant. Although they will import historical data, that will happen after go-live. Currently, they offer a single stage, invite only application. We've been exploring the options for inviting applicants to apply, and would like to poll other foundations for their best…
