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Discussion Space: OMB's Freeze on Federal Grants and Loan Disbursement
This is a space for all who have been affected by the recent federal Grands Freeze. More information can be found here and an outline here.
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Grant due diligence
Hello everyone, We are just getting started and trying to make sure we gather the important details for a grantee before we process a grant. Does anyone have a comprehensive list that they could share? One specific question is do you always need to have a W9?
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Best practices for mailing grant checks
Hello everyone, I would love any suggestions for the most professional and streamlined process to mail checks to grantees. I'm looking into options so that we aren't placing physical stamps on checks, etc. Any advice would be greatly appreicated!
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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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Grant Application Scoring Rubric
Hi everyone, Just curious to know how you all score your grant applications. We have specific questions on our application that are worth up to a certain number of points and displayed on the application for applicants to see the weight of that question. The Board then scores the responses to get a total score for an…
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529 Plans to pay scholarships
Hi! Our Community Foundation is looking into paying scholarships through 529 plans to help avoid aid displacement. Do any other organizations pay scholarships this way? Has it been helpful in reducing aid displacement? Thank you!
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Designated Scholarship Conflict of Interest
We have several designated scholarship funds where the selection committee is made up of the school/outside personnel (principal, guidance counselor, etc.) and we have no part in the selection process. Do you have the school sign some type of conflict of interest form and if so, would you be willing to share?
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Grants to High School Sports and/or Club Organizations
Good Afternoon, Our foundation has been getting more and more requests from sports teams in our local area asking for grants. Some sports teams are associated with local high schools, others are independent traveling teams. Some are asking for help with purchasing equipment and others are just asking for general help with…
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Public Support Test Modeling
Hello all! We're having a bit of a niche problem and wondering if anyone has insights on software or resources. My team works for an individual funder who is also associated with a Private Family Foundation. We regularly encounter situations in which funding from both entities could cause a grantee to "tip" into private…
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Best practices - Evaluating Grant Applications
Being new to Foundant Grants - this is our first year - I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for doing an informative and useful application evaluation process for the reviewers? We've always used a simple worksheet. Going online with our grant applications, we changed up the application. I want to develop a process…
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Could anyone share the questions they use in their LOI process?
We've recently started using Letters of Intent (LOIs) as part of our grant process, but we’ve found that the questions we currently ask aren't providing us with enough useful information. If anyone is willing to share the questions they use in their LOI process, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your…
