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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…
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Fees Associated With Hosting Applications
I am the Scholarship and Programs Associate for a Community Foundation in Georgia. Our scholarship portfolio is small. We have funds with their own grant or scholarship process with us only providing a link on our site while others ask us to manage the entire application and selection process for them. As we continue to…
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Scholarship Providers Regional Collaboratives
On our coffee talk today, @SarahBattersby mentioned their regional scholarship providers collaborative. Are you interested in creating a scholarship collaborative in your area? Do you have one already? We would love to hear both questions and advice in this discussion thread. I know I can't wait to learn more!
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General operating support grants
Hi all, We are just starting out with Foundant and at the same time starting to offer operating grants. If you provide general operating support grants based on an application process, would you be willing to share your grant application. Thanks, Sheila
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Scholarship Withdrawals
We have a scholarship program for dependents of employees. We increased the amount of per semester scholarship to $3,000. Several schools do not cost this much leaving the student a balance on their fee bill. I have had a request from a student for permission to withdraw the remainder to purchase supplies/computer etc.…
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Scholarship Scoring Rubric
Hello all, Our Foundation is currently looking into restructuring the scoring rubric of our scholarship program to make our application and selection process more equitable. For example, we looking to identify work ethic, leadership, and community service in other ways rather than using GPA and SAT scores. Does anyone have…
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Implementing a Letter of Intent into our unrestricted grant process
Good morning, At Adirondack Foundation we have never used an LOI with our grantmaking processes. I would like to hear from those of you who use LOI's as to how you streamlined your process with LOI's or if it just adds one more step? We are hoping to use an LOI as a way to help us narrow down larger funding requests we're…
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Scholarships - Survey of Applicants, Evaluators
Hi all, I really appreciated attending the Foundant Coffee Talk last week. We are considering sending a survey to our applicants about their application experience. We will also be having discussions with our Evaluators regarding this last scholarship cycle. If you already survey your applicants and evaluators, what are…
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Grant Reports
Looking for some great examples of Grant reports as follow-up documents. I've got my paper grant report forms that I've been planning to integrate into the GLM as a follow-up. But I'm always looking to see if any one has a better report form, especially now that I'm doing this electronically for the first time. Thanks for…
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Scholarship Payments to College/Universities
Looking to see how other scholarship providers handle their payments directly to the college/university and what workflows you have found to work best for your organization. Do you indicate on the letter sent with the scholarship check how to split the payments? We have always just said that the scholarship should be used…
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Evaluations & Scoring
Hello everyone, This isn't a technical question per sae, but I was wondering how other organizations evaluate or score qualitative responses. Having just completed our very first bursary cycle I was struck by how emotional the committees members evaluations were. We all found it incredibly difficult to be scoring one…
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Scholarship Application Questions/Examples
Is anyone willing to provide a copy of their scholarship applications for reference in building our own? The Foundation strives to support medical students to hopefully end up practicing and staying local throughout their careers. Do you have any ideas on questions we could ask to align with our mission? Or general…
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International Scholarships
Hi from New Orleans! We are considering offering scholarships to dependent children of employees in non-us offices which include Australia, Ireland, Great Britain, France, and Canada. Does anyone have experience with this? Some of my specific questions are: We normally make the check payable to the university and the…
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Outreach for National Scholarships
We are looking for ways to increase our reach and impact for our national scholarship program, shifting from select partner colleges (8-10 total in the past) to a larger national scale (jumping from ~50 scholarship recipients per year to potentially 200-300 scholarship recipients per year). How do other scholarship…
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Moved: Adding Additional Funding to a Previously Given Grant
This discussion has been moved.
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Scholarship Committee Member Job Description
Here is our job description that we provide our scholarship committee members at the beginning of each scholarship cycle. I have not updated this with the new timeline that we'll be working with COVID-19, but we still intend for them to be able to do their scoring entirely online and not have a need to meet in any way to…
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Shifts in Youth Philanthropy/Grantmaking Programs
Aside from working at Foundant, I am a mentor for our local Youth Giving Project where a cohort of 13 local high aged students help to decide grant funding of $10,000. With schools moving to remote, and stay at home orders in place we have made the decision to wrap up or programming for 2019-2020 early. Luckily, we had…
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Scholarship Application Submission Numbers
Hi all, One thing I noticed this year is our overall application submission numbers were lower than 2019 and 2018. Did anyone else see that in their submission numbers as well? Our outreach was similar to years past, but with an obvious inability to reach out to schools since March 6th (spring break in Alaska), I missed…
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Deadlines??
What is everyone doing about deadlines for your scholarship applications? Are you concerned? Or just waiting to see how things pan out.
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Scholarship Evaluation/Scoring Form for Applicants
Here is the scholarship application scoring/evaluation our selection committee members use to score and determine scholarship recipients for the ThedaCare Family of Foundations.
