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Categorizing Grants
I'm trying to figure out an effective method to tag grants within my various processes (both ongoing and past) so that I can categorize them based off of the social issues targeted. One idea I have is using the reporting feature to filter out certain grants but I wonder if I can achieve a tagging outside of this feature I…
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Ending grantee relationships, shifting strategies
Hi folks, I'm looking to connect with other community foundation colleagues who have undergone strategy shifts that made significant changes to grant processes (e.g., decreased grant amounts, sunsetting previous grantee relationships that no longer are strategy aligned). We are shifting discretionary resources to…
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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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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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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…
