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Gender versus Pronouns??
Good afternoon!! I am new to the Foundant/Compass Community, and am looking forward to getting some great feedback!! Reviewing our scholarship application and wondering if everyone is using the term Gender on their applications or using Pronouns instead? What is best practice? Thank you so much! Kasey
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"Chosen Name" or "Preferred Name" field for scholarship applicants?
Hello! My organization is considering adding a "chosen name" or "preferred name" field to our scholarship applications after we discovered the need for such a field during our recent scholarship cycle. Do other organizations use a field like this in their applications? If so, could you please share the language that you…
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Funding Our Future: Solutions for Youth Mental Health Philanthropy
The data is clear: now is the time for philanthropy to invest in youth mental health. But in this complex and uncertain landscape, many funders are struggling to find the way forward. In light of the youth mental health crisis, Mindful Philanthropy embarked on a journey to understand barriers to philanthropic investment in…
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Resources for Funding Women and Girls' Mental Health
Last month, Mindful Philanthropy launched our new initiative, With Her in Mind. Mental health is the leading cause of disability for women globally, and it affects outcomes in many other issues that funders care about. Yet, women and girls’ mental health remains overlooked and undervalued by philanthropy. Investing in this…
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Data Capture - Targeted Demographics, Places and Identifying Gaps
Hi, We updated our grant application forms to better assess targeted social minorities applicants aim to serve (e.g. foster youth, persons w/disabilities, etc). We also include an option to check mark all the zip codes an applicant targets geographically to identify potential gaps within our county. With help from…
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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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Using Google translate
We have a large Spanish-speaking population of students, but our organization doesn't have the resources to have our entire scholarship application translated for this year's application cycle. We're thinking of promoting the Google translate feature to help reduce barriers for these students. Has anyone used Google…
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Non-discrimination Clauses and Race-specific Scholarships
What language do you use related to non-discrimination in your fundholder agreements and public communications about scholarships? Do you refer to a specific law, or have a list of "we do not discriminate based on X"? How do you rectify these non-discrimination clauses with scholarships that are for a specific race,…
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How do you monitor and support grantees around DEI work?
Hi there! My colleague, @SheriaWalker, and I presented a Client Panel at Summit 2022 and wanted to take advantage of the entire community's collective wisdom to keep the momentum from the conversation going. Our presentation reviewed new practices that our foundation has put in place to assess whether an organization's…
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non-discrimination disclaimers
Hello All, We are preparing a new scholarship application and wanted to include a text stating that we are asking certain questions regarding race, ethnicity and gender for purposes of statistics only. We wanted to actually include a non-discrimination disclaimer text in the application. Is anyone doing this? Do you…
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Please share your best videos
Hello- we are informally looking at how other community foundations use video to inspire and educate. Does your community foundation have a brief video that helps introduce a specific grant program, address how you are working DEI into your grant making, or serve as a tool to educate the public about endowments? If you…
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Creating Conversations About Board Diversity
For several years, we have asked our grantees to share information about who sits on their board and whether it reflects the community they serve. Our application includes a board diversity grid for them to use, but importantly it is designed for board members to self-identify. We want to avoid the applicant filling out…
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Making applications inclusive for individuals who are visually impaired
How are you making sure that your grant/scholarship applications are inclusive of the visually impaired? Do you create another version of the online application that is accessible to assistive technology such as a screen reader?
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Application Questions on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
What type of questions do you include on your grant or scholarship applications to be compliant with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)? Do you also do Bias training for evaluators?
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Accommodation Language for Low Tech Applicants
During a recent call we discussed some great strategies for assisting low-tech applicants and needs. A variety of methodology is being used to let applicants know the service is available (only if they ask, word of mouth, provide information in webinars, etc). Our language is: If you do not have reasonable access to a…
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Strategies to address DEI
What is your Community Foundation doing to address Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the communities you serve?
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Recent Board Member Agreement Refresh?
We want to update and refresh our Board Member Agreement. Curious if anyone has done this lately and or willing to share theirs with us? Also curious about how best to include a commitment to Equity and Diversity / Racial and Social Equity pledge/commitment or if this should be separate.
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Public-facing DEI definitions
Please share your public-facing definitions for the following phrases. Minority-led nonprofit Grassroot organization/collaborative/coalition (a group or organization without a 501c3)
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Citizenship question on scholarships?
Hi--while the family foundation I work with does not fund scholarships, this question came up in a group discussion lately and I'm eager to hear what you all think and how some of you are handling the situation in your worlds. At a particular organization, it was a given for years that all scholarships only went to US…
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NEA Requirements & Building Final Report Forms
I thought we might benefit from a place to discuss one of the topics from last week's Art Chat which particularly interested me. I'm interested in how you collect the data required by the NEA using Foundant. For example: How do you collect the demographic information? (During the days of paper applications, we collected…
