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Moved: Third Party Question Groups - Tips, Templates, and More!
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Award/Payment Notifications for Grantees
Looking for inputs, workflow and/or templates, on how you might be using GLM to notify your Grantees of a new award or a payment that has been issued. We are a Community Foundation using GLM/SLM and C-suite, and processes over 1,000 grants a year under both unrestricted and Donor Advised. We are looking to fully use the…
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Show me your application!
I work for a school and as I am building my scholarship application for the first time, it would be helpful to be able to login as a student to some real-world examples. If you have scholarships, would you kindly share with me? You can delete me as a user at any time. Thanks
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Scholarship Award/Denial Letters - Paper or Digital?
Hello all, Just curious to see how folks handle their award/denial letters for scholarship applicants. Currently, we send paper award and denial letters to every applicant that finishes and submits an application. We also send an email to award recipients with more detailed instructions on how to complete the follow-up to…
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Scholarship Deferrals, Renewals and New Funding in a New Normal
We had great discussions around these three scholarship topics during today’s Coffee Talk. Our own @AlyseBraaten, Manager of Client Services, Grants and Scholarships hosted along with our special guest host @LaurenGrevel , the Education & Youth Initiatives Officer with Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. If you missed…
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Using standardized test scores in evaluating scholarship applicants
We have decided to make standardized test scores optional on our scholarship applications this year since some colleges/universities are not requiring them. Our steering committee just met, and many expressed concern that it is unfair to take scores into consideration for candidates if not all of them provided scores. Has…
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Welcome to Scholarship Chat! Find introductions and discussions here!
If you have a minute, go ahead and introduce yourself to the group in the discussion below - we'd love to get the networking started! A couple of starting points: Have you ever been to Montana? Are you a dog or a cat person? (Request the Dog Person or Cat Person badge)! Name your favorite Bequet Caramel flavor. (Request…
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Communication Schedule
On the call I heard Arts Memphis mention a communication/promotion schedule for grant programs and grant webinars. Any samples or links to great resources for developing a stronger communication schedule?
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Scholarships and off-campus housing
My organization is trying to sort out how to best handle scholarships for off-campus housing (aka paying apartment rent). This has been a request from a few students who have explained that they've received a softball scholarship at their local community college (*with no campus housing*), but the school or coach (I'm not…
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Best Practices for Youth Engagement
We are preparing to launch a new program that would invite funding proposals from local youth (12-24 age range). We want to make the process accessible and invite creative approaches for applicants to share their vision and ideas. I'm curious to hear some ideas about the dos and don'ts when it comes to getting teenagers…
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Scholarship Processes Thought Partner Needed!
Greetings, I'm looking to have some scholarship process chat with anyone that is available. I need a thought partner. There are so many different processes involved with administering scholarships and renewals and my brain is fried as I'm trying to think through some more efficient processes! I'd love to talk through/pick…
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Volunteer Evaluators & Student Privacy
Hello everyone - we are looking to update some of our policies for scholarships, and specifically one for our volunteer evaluators that addresses student privacy. Our evaluators access the students applications through SLM, but I do know some of them print the forms out to review. We want to ensure proper destroying of the…
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Scholarship funds for wraparound services
Good afternoon, I have a question about some of our affiliate scholarship funds. Have you ever applied variance power to named scholarship funds to provide wraparound services to students? We would like to change these funds since the affiliate has a Promise Zone that will be able to provide 4 years of full tuition…
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Need Based Scholarships for Private School Students
Wondering how other scholarship programs handle the issue of private high school student eligibility for their need-based scholarship opportunities. Currently, out of over 100 locally offered scholarships for graduating high school seniors, none have been created that specifically include private schools. Typically they…
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Who is coding nonprofits by sector AND by services provided?
Hello Foundant community, I am fairly new to Foundant. When the time comes to tell a "story" about where your grants were allocated, what system do you use to pull the data? Do you code in c-suite and GLM? Do you have more than one field that allows for multiple codes per grant allowing you to filter by both sectors of…
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Change in Scholarship Criteria Due to Company Merger
We manage a scholarship fund that benefits children and grandchildren of a company that recently merged and no longer exists as the entity identified in the fund agreement. Additionally, the newly-formed company announced the closure of the main facility, which will significantly narrow the applicant pool if the original…
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Board Members relatives receive monetary scholarships?
Do your Board members relatives or employee's relatives receive monetary scholarships or just honorary scholarships? If so, do the funds have a specific criteria that is straight forward. For example the student of your Board Presidents son is Salutatorian.
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3rd Party Question- Scholarships
I'm in the process of building a branching question around the student Expected Family Contribution (EFC) off the upload of the FAFSA report. When I tried to build the branching rule, I was unable to do so. Does anyone know how to build a branching question from a file upload? Is this even possible to do? Thanks
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Experience administering business relief grants - specifically CDBG-CV?
Good afternoon all, The Community Foundation of Abilene has agreed to administer small business relief grants, made available to our city through CDBG-CV funds. Do any of my peers have experience in this world, and would you be willing to share info/best practices? I'm happy to connect via phone or zoom. Thanks, Michelle…
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Weighting Grant Evaluation Questions
We need to improve our evaluation process, and it has become obvious we need to weigh evaluation questions. As it stands now, rating questions on a scale of is helpful, but this does a poor job of weeding out bias. For example, I am seeing that even if there is a significant governance issue in an applying organization,…
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Scholarship Coffee Talk: Learn from the past, & look to the future
Thanks for joining us on today's Scholarship Coffee Talk! You had some brilliant suggestions for your colleagues which we will be sharing here along with the chat notes and recording link. In the meantime, please continue the discussion with questions, comments, & tips.
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Ideas for evaluation tool for client
We have a grantee who is giving out beds to any / all who "need" them. The need is determined by the person / family voicing their need - there are no "qualifications" of any sort. The organization does not collect any information from the person who receives the bed, except name and maybe a phone #. This org is run by…
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Community Service Grants/International Mission Grants
Hi All, My foundation is exploring two new types of grants: Community Service Outreach - grants would go to high school academies who have customized community outreach projects needed in their areas. International Mission - orphanage, K-12 education type projects Does anyone have experience in these categories / have…
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Online Payments for Grants
With everything virtual these days, I wanted to see if other Foundations are making online grant payments to nonprofits? We normally mail checks, but have been asked by a few fund holders if we can make online payments in lieu of sending a check. This is normally because of a specific fundraiser they are participating in…
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Setting up a scholarship fund in the midst of a tragic death
I know those of you who offer scholarship funds have encountered this before.... A family loses a child in a tragic death and wants to set up a scholarship fund A.S.A.P. because they want to direct memorial gifts to that fund. Putting aside the issue of whether or not they will raise enough in memorial gifts to establish a…
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Grantees and Legal Action
Hello everyone, Does anyone have a process for asking applicants and/or grantees if their organization is involved in any type of litigation? Thank you
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Working With Other Grantmakers In Your Geographic Area
I've noticed a recent trend with our GLM clients finding little ways to make their grant applications easier for applicants. Often times this means creating a shorter, simpler application - but what about creating more similar applications? Are there any grantmakers out there who are working together with other funders in…
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Letters of Recommendation (Scholarships)
Hello! We are currently building our scholarship application and are considering making some changes in regards to letters of recommendation. Previously, we have asked students to request two letters of recommendation and upload them to their applications. We often receive form letters and have heard from our committees…
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Compliance
Looking for some example checklists on compliance prior to grant awards/distributions. Checking their tax status is obviously one. What other tasks are done in your org in the compliance column? What is your internal process for compliance? Thanks.
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Interview Alternatives
We conduct interviews for a few of our scholarships. We cancelled the interviews for one of our scholarships which would have taken place on April 8th because the award event that follows where the recipient is announced was postponed (and will most likely get cancelled). We conduct interviews for 2 other scholarships in…
