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Discussion Space: OMB's Freeze on Federal Grants and Loan Disbursement
This is a space for all who have been affected by the recent federal Grands Freeze. More information can be found here and an outline here.
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Washington D.C Regional Training
We are excited to announce Foundant is coming to Washington D.C for a Regional Training August 5 & 6! Register here to connect with your Foundant peers at our 2-day software training and networking event. I hope to see you there!
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Donor Education Event - topics and speakers?
Hello all, We plan to host a donor education event in the fall and are looking for topics and speaker ideas. We had three of these events pre-covid. The topics were ESG investing, how to engage the next generation/family philanthropy, and the importance of capacity-building support. We are open to any topics and speaker…
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New Compass Tour! (May 2023)
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POLL: What time of year does your organization prepare its budget?
Are you on a calendar year budget and do your budget planning in the fall? Does your fiscal year end in May and you work through budgets early in the year? Vote in this anonymous poll, and share additional details on your processes below!
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Have you commented yet? Provide input on collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data.
Want to make sure everyone is aware of the April 12, 2023 deadline to provide input into this process. Summary: The Office of the Chief Statistician is taking a key step forward in its formal process to revise OMB’s statistical standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data across Federal agencies…
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How Philanthropy Can Support Culturally-Led Mental Health Programs
Mindful Philanthropy is pleased to announce the release of our latest funder guidance, For the Community, By the Community: How Philanthropy Can Support Culturally-Led Mental Health Programs. We hope that this guidance can be helpful as you make an impact in the mental health of communities of color. The guidance is…
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Drivers and Barriers to Funding for Youth Well-Being: Survey
Mindful Philanthropy is seeking funders of all backgrounds and issue areas to complete this 3 minute survey on the current drivers and barriers to funding the well-being of our nations’ youth. After seeing our young people struggling to cope with the aftermath of the pandemic and rising school violence, we’re attempting to…
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How did you fix your NACHA formatting problem?
We’re really hoping to get NACHA working smoothly. While we are able to successfully upload our NACHA files to the bank, there is a formatting issue that’s causing a troublesome delay in the funds being transfered to the recipients. The bank's ACH department is having to manually push the payments through. I understand the…
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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 due diligence
Hello everyone, We are just getting started and trying to make sure we gather the important details for a grantee before we process a grant. Does anyone have a comprehensive list that they could share? One specific question is do you always need to have a W9?
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March Top Members!
Happy April 💐! Congrats to our Top 10 community members who lit up Compass with their engagement and dedication throughout March! 🎉 Let's give a round of applause to: @juliedowell, @StephanieOverbey, @JohnAmoroso, @HeidiTalbott, @DebbieStanton, @MeghanBaylor, @RaelynnMackenzie, @MeganDeHoog, @LaurenJenkins, and…
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Has this happened to you? Deceased a profile record and now Community Suite is haunted?
I set a profile record to 'deceased' and suddenly all the text in our Community Suite instance started bleeding - I assume our instance in haunted now? I tried Goo-ghoul to find a techxorcist, but that turned up nothing. Has anyone else experienced this before? Thanks, Mitch Hollberg PS - For reference, the donor name is…
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Zeffy Software
Anyone have experience using Zeffy?
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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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February's Top Trailblazers 🌟
Happy March! Kudos to our Top 10 community members who lit up Compass with their engagement and dedication throughout February! 🎉 Let's give a round of applause to: @DebbieStanton, @MeganDeHoog, @AndreaGerhard, @MichelleSchneider, @JoeyGreshowak, @AngelaFarnquist, @teraalbrecht, @AmandaHester, @codifarrar, and @LuisLeon!…
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Regional Trainings 2025
Do you have information on other upcoming Regional Training dates & locations for 2025? I know some have been announced, but we're trying to be sure what's ahead is on the calendar for this year and budgeted for so we can plan and staff accordingly around our events and scholarship/grant cycles. Particularly interested in…
