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Scholarship rubric scales for activities, community service, and work
We are working to update our evaluation questions for our selection committees as they review scholarship applications. We are trying to create a scale to measure the quality of students' extra-curricular activities, community service, and work. We want to offer clear guidance to evaluators for why they should give…
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Grants Distributions Forms: How to Set Up for Irregular Distributions?
We're considering using the follow up process to build a form for distribution requests, but distributions vary from grant to grant, and can be very irregular. Has anyone found an especially creative or useful way to make the follow up forms work for grant distributions better than grantees simply emailing the info to us…
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Fund Advisor Content for Portal - Grant Request Header and Footer
Hello, Would anyone mind sharing their content in the Fund Advisor Portal Content -Grant Request Header and Footer? I have an issue with advisors sometimes not seeing their unsubmitted grant requests, due to a lengthy Header. Thank you! Sally Hermann St. Croix Valley Foundation
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Demographics by Candid
Hi everyone, We’re working on content related to the Demographics by Candid integration in GLM and would love your input. Have you implemented/are you planning to implement the integration? If so, what are your goals? If not, what’s driving your decision? Thank you in advance for your thoughts! Jennifer
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Grant letter for Annual Grants for Donor Designated Funds
Hello, Would anyone be willing to share their letter they use for annual distributions from donor designated funds? Thank you! Sally Hermann St. Croix Valley Foundation
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Site Visit
Hello! Our Foundation is implementing site visits. We are considering a couple of different avenues in what the goal is with them, either taking the place of a report that they now complete on our grant portal within the year of receiving funds or a more informational approach, both with the main focus of relationship…
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Evaluating Financial Need with New FAFSA
Hi, We are a small foundation and the majority of our scholarships have a financial need requirement. I was curious if (how) organizations are changing their evaluation of financial need with the upcoming changes to the FAFSA, particularly related to how the EFC/SAI will be calculated. As part of our financial need…
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Could there be new legislation to help with federal grant applications?
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) that would help streamline the administration of grant programs across the federal government has advanced in the Senate. Governments and organizations in small and rural communities often struggle when applying for federal grants because they lack the…
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What's your instructional text for scholarship essay questions?
We're making some revisions to our scholarship applications and wondered if anyone would be willing to share their instructional text for essay questions. Specifically, instructions about grammar, punctuation, proofreading, answering questions thoroughly, formatting in paragraphs, etc. No matter what instructions we give,…
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Teacher Mini-Grants
Would be interested in hearing from any other foundations that do Teacher/Educator mini grants: How do you collect applications (GLM/SLM/Something else)? Do you pay the schools or teachers directly? What is the average award amount? What type of follow-up do you require? Grateful for any information/suggestions you can…
