As a Community Foundation with a Live scholarship application, I have received a couple of calls from frantic students. I have the FAFSA estimator in my application and am considering using that number for financial-based scholarships. We could change the due date to later, but I want that to be my last resort. I am…
What financial documents do you require from an organization requesting a grant. Specifically, do you require an audited financial statement from the organization requesting a grant? If not, what do you require and what do you suggest we look for?
Hi, Our organization is looking to create the process for the following grant and I was wondering if anyone else has implemented a similar grant? What worked, what did not? Any landmines I should look out for? [Some of the grant overview language is off as names of our partners have been redacted.] Grant Overview: Through…
We are just moving over to CSuite and I am looking for some suggestions on how to adapt our current tribute card process. We have people donate to a fund in memory/honor of a person and ask that a tribute card be sent to a specific person. A tribute "object" is created in CSuite, with the memory/honor persons name. All…
Hello everyone! When do you send scholarship checks to your recipients' school/university/college etc? Is it possible to send funds in May? In the past I have disbursed the funds for new recipients and renewal recipients in August/September. However, my boss was wondering if we could disburse the funds right after making…
How can I resend the original third party request email? Our grantees miss it when it comes through and then ask for us to resend it. I can send a e-mail from that page but it doesn't include the original link.
Hello, Friends! Our recent webinar on crafting applications that truly connect had some of our highest engagement. We're starting this discussion as a "hub" for the folks looking to connect with other attendees, continue conversations started in the chat (transcript to come), and build on the advice our presenters shared.…
We are in the process of updating our capacity building grant process. I am wondering if anyone offers capacity building grants and would be willing to share their grant application with us. Thank you.
Hi All, I am reaching out for your best practices when it comes to signing grant acceptance forms. Currently, our Foundation has a grant acceptance form built out in GLM that is assigned as a follow-up form. Below are the questions that we ask regarding authorization to sign/accept. Most often, we find that the person who…
Hi everyone, We have decided not to continue our annual scholarship reception event. Instead, we plan to gather student thank you videos to share with donors individually and the public. We are currently looking at two platforms: Thank View and Memory Fox. Does anyone have experience with either or both and have…