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Grant guidelines and decision making framework for granting ARPA funds
Our organization is partnering with our county to support their grantmaking efforts for APRA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding for nonprofits. They would like to grant us $500,000 to then create a Nonprofit Economic Recovery fund. We will provide unrestricted funding to our local nonprofit organizations from this fund to…
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How Are You Building Relationships in the Time of COVID?
During our 2/2/2022 Coffee Talk, funders shared how they are building relationships in this time of COVID. We heard from funders how they are sharing donor stories, taking walking meetings, setting up team art groups and many other creative ways to re-energize and stay connected in our hybrid and remote environments. We'd…
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What COVID changes are you keeping?
I know we all made big changes in the last year because of COVID-19, so I am just wondering are you keeping any of the changes you made because they suit your organization? What changes did your organization make? What methods are you definitely going back to? What are you keeping?
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Greetings from New York's Hudson Valley!
Hi all - happy to be in a new position as the Director of Planned Giving with Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley! Looking forward to the time when I can get back into our community and actually meet donors, professional advisors, nonprofits, and co-workers in person. In the meantime I'm in the process of taking a…
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Returning to the office
I am curious how people are handling their efforts to "open" and return to the office? How many staff you have and how does that figure in to your considerations?
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Grant Extensions due to pandemic - What steps are you taking?
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for how other Foundations have been handling grant extensions in Foundant (such as a note within the original signed grant agreement, a new follow up form or application, etc.? We of course want to have documentation in writing for our Community Foundation audit. How are others handling…
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Virtual Scholarship Receptions
Hi everyone! I'm a Grantmaking Specialist at the Quad Cities Community Foundation and part of my role entails managing our scholarship program. We are beginning to brainstorm how to host our annual scholarship reception where we bring together donors and award recipients. Typically this happens in person but we are…
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Building Resilience into Year End Fund Development
Hi All, Thanks so much for your enthusiastic engagement in today's Donor Management Coffee Talk focused on building resilience into your year end fund development. We enjoyed hearing all of your experiences and stories, from tackling projects of larger scale than you have before, building off of existing tools in your tool…
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Donor Engagement In the Year 2020
Thanks to everyone for your engagement during today's Donor Management Coffee Talk focused on Donor Engagement in the Year 2020. We appreciate you sharing your challenges, creative ideas, and successes. Please share additional thoughts regarding future strategy, events, and the DEI conversation here.
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Adjusting for New (COVID) Scholarship Season
What are your organizations doing to adjust for the upcoming scholarship season? Ours typically "runs" from November 1 through late July. What will you do different because of COVID19? Are you going to shift due dates around? Our deadline was February 15, 2020 which we bumped back a week to account for some non-COVID…
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Sending Scholarship Funds Electronically
We would like to stop sending some scholarship checks to colleges via the mail. Are any of you electronically sending scholarship funds? Is there an issue with the Student ID or batching checks? We thought we might test the process with a smaller local University vs a state University. Are we biting off more than we can…
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Assessing Financial Need During a Pandemic
We started a great conversation about Financial Need during this strange time. What questions are you asking students about their financial need? Are these different than your regular questions, if so how? How will use instruct your evaluators differently? Will you be working with donors in advance to discuss the concerns…
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Continue the Coffee Talk conversation on revelations from the COVID pandemic
Thanks to everyone's engagement today during our Coffee Talk: Grantmaking Revelations from the COVID-19 Pandemic. We appreciate the excellent questions and suggestions, as well as the discussion around ongoing lessons from the experience of vulnerable communities - both relative to COVID and to the impact of racism in our…
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Domestic Violence Relief
I would really be interested to see how and what our clients are doing to support those experiencing domestic violence as a result of recent shelter-in-place orders. Please share any and all stories!
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High community needs related to COVID-19
Our local health department has identified 2 potential needs, but we don't have an org who has done this yet: a. Provide deliveries of basic needs to Covid patients who are quarantined. b. Provide some type of shelter for Covid patients when released from the hospital who can't return home (they live with others who may be…
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Beyond COVID-19: Taking the next step
Hi y'all, During last week's Coffee Talk on Thursday (4/30), one of the questions posed was what does the next step in COVID-19 response look like? For many of us on that call, there are no clear answers or even a direction to start looking for answers. I wanted to try and continue the conversation here about what folx may…
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How are you tracking PPP benefits and grantee relief?
Hello Everyone, A client wants to know how grantmakers/ funders are tracking applicant PPP benefits ( Paycheck Protection Program)? Continuing on the same theme, how are funders tracking grantee relief from various sources whether that be government or other organizations? Thanks!
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Tracking fundraising
Hi all! We have a group who is interested in helping fundraise for our Covid-19 response fund. They would like directions to come directly to us, and only want us to keep track of how many donations come in through their efforts. We usually have separate funds for our different giving circles, and haven't really tracked…
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Survey to Colleges/Universities about Fall Plans
Hi all, I mentioned this during the 4-22 Scholarships Coffee Talk. We surveyed our 50-ish colleges/universities about their current plans for Fall 2020. Here's the survey in case others want to ask similar questions of colleges/universities their scholarship recipients attend.
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Thinking about the Class of 2020 differently?
My son happens to be a high school Senior this year. Based on watching him and his friends, I think scholarship providers will need to get creative to engage the Class of 2020 students. They are in a very different mindset when compared to prior classes. Most I know are feeling significant loss from all the cancelled…
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Collaborative/Pooled Funding/COVID Crisis Program
If your community is launching a single application for a collaborative grant program and pooling funds to respond to the (enormous) COVID-19 impacts, please share your experiences. Stay well, Stay home.
