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Connecting Donors with Funding Opportunities & Community Needs
We are a state-wide community foundation and are frequently contacted by organizations and municipalities throughout the state who have funding needs and have questions about what opportunities our CF offers. In some cases, our community funds or grant programs can meet these needs, but many times we don't have a program…
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Donor Recognition Policy / Stewardship Strategy examples?
Hello! Here at the South Sask Community Foundation are currently reviewing/revising our donor recognition policy and stewardship strategy. If you have a copy of either you would be willing to share, that would be greatly appreciated! Most curious to know how you segment donors for stewardship: by giving amounts, by type of…
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Agency funds training
Hi all, We're creating a webinar for our nonprofit agency funds to review the basics of the funds (if they're new to the org/org's board, or need a refresher), answer FAQs, and remind them of the nonprofit support services we offer. We also try to meet one on one with these nonprofits, but we know frequent turnover…
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Marketing Documentation
Our team really wants to focus on building awareness of our larger funds and showing the community what the fund is contributing to. We have decided that we are going to showcase these funds on social media platforms or create blog posts, but we want to document that within Foundant. Does anyone have any good ideas on what…
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Ability to download shared templates in Compass
Hi all, I would love to be able to create a shared space in Compass where we could add templates or processes and procedures to share. Would this be possible to add to compass point and would others support this idea? Please forgive me if this should be in idea lab :) Thanks, Mary Ellen
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Merged fields in TY letters
Hi! We are retooling our TY letters for the new year. We currently used merged fields such as name, address, donation amount, fund name, date, check #, etc. We would love to be able to merge the fund purpose (current CSuite field) into the TY letter as well. Is that a possibility? Any tips greatly appreciated. Thank you…
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Successor advisor form
Does anyone have a successor fund advisor form that they could share? This would be a form that a fundholder would complete to make clear their wishes should they pass away. And what is your process for collecting them?
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Looking for a general "intake form".
Can anyone share a link to or attach a general "intake form" that your foundation uses for an initial call or email about starting a scholarship or new fund.
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Donor Handbook
Does anyone have a Donor Handbook or collected materials you could share? This would be specifically for stewardship of new fundholders - something you may provide them that explains fund administration services, policies, fund statement examples, how to fundraise for their fund, an outline/timeline of how/when funds reach…
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Single Third Party Invested Funds
I was wondering if anyone had a policy/handbook available that they use for investment managers who have clients that want have the investment manager continue to invest the funds, but the account becomes a charitable fund with the foundation? I know that there are foundations that have gone down this route successfully…