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Evaluating / Reviewing the Scholarship Process
Hi All! Now that the scholarship process is over (mostly - still waiting on some students to complete their scholarship acceptance forms), I want to do an evaluation or review of the process from various perspectives. I'd like to put together some surveys to ask at least 4 groups of users how they found the system to work…
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What documentation are recipients asked to provide to verify enrollment & pay scholarships?
My organization currently requests scholarship recipients to submit their school bill and class schedule in order to verify enrollment and proceed to paying out scholarship awards. However, we have noticed students are often waiting on schools for a long time to get this information. This often leads to very short…
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Scholarship Associate position at Community Foundation of Northern Illinois
Come work with us! CFNIL, located in Rockford, IL, is looking for someone with excellent communication and critical thinking skills to join the team as a Scholarship Associate. This person will be responsible for overseeing CFNIL's scholarship programs, which includes working with students, educators, donors, and a large…
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Does anyone offer application coaching?
Hi all, During this year's selection process one of our evaluators noted that he could see potential in several applicants but their written responses were not as strong as other more talented writers and therefore their evaluation scores were lower. His recommendation was to coach these students through the application…
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Hiring - Scholarship Program Manager - Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley (Aurora, IL)
The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley serves the Greater Aurora Area, the TriCities and Kendall County, Illinois. Reporting to the President & CEO, the Scholarship Program Manager will work with the Foundation staff, Board of Directors, Fund Advisors, and other constituents to successfully administer the…
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Sample -Lilly Endowment Scholarship application
Hello all, Our community foundation just transitioned to CommunitySuite (financial part). We will be transitioning to SLM in June. Our Lilly Endowment Scholarship application opens August 1st. For those outside of Indiana- It is a scholarship application for high school seniors from our county; every CF in Indiana…
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Volunteer Evaluators & Student Privacy
Hello everyone - we are looking to update some of our policies for scholarships, and specifically one for our volunteer evaluators that addresses student privacy. Our evaluators access the students applications through SLM, but I do know some of them print the forms out to review. We want to ensure proper destroying of the…
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BREAKING NEWS: You can now access Compass directly from GLM, SLM and CSuite!
Have a question about how others are utilizing GLM, SLM and CSuite features? Ask your peers in Compass by accessing the community directly from your product! Just look for the Compass icon in the top right corner. GLM and SLM: CSuite:
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NEW CATEGORY: Foundant Product Q&A!
You may have noticed some changes to our Compass homepage navigation this week. We've dedicated a new category to focus on Foundant Product Q&A, and moved several amazing discussions to our Philanthropic Best Practices category where all Compass members can benefit from the knowledge, experiences and questions that are…
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How are we celebrating awardees in 2020 (since events can't be the answer)?
On today's coffee talk we had some great ideas surface around ways to celebrate our scholarship students in the current circumstances. We heard: Video exchanges between donors and students. Newspaper ads/articles with student photos. Yard Signs "I am a xyz scholarship recipient!" ( I personally think this sounds super…
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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.