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FAFSA Challenges - What did you do?! Coffee Talk
We had a great live Coffee Talk about FAFSA at the Foundant Summit Conference. Here are some comments from the participants, grouped by theme. Please add thoughts & ideas of your own - We can revisit this next year when we do it all again! FAFSA CHAOS: WHAT DID YOU DO?! We bailed on the whole FAFSA thing and instead went…
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How do you stay connected with your Board of Directors and committees?
What strategies do you use to keep your Board connected and engaged with your important philanthropic work? Some questions from today's Coffee Talk to think about: What are your policies and procedures for your Board of Directors and Committees? How do you recruit and bring on new members? How do you structure committees…
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Corporate/Employee Scholarships
Our team is working with a donor to establish a scholarship program for his employees. This is new to our foundation, and we want to ensure we set it up correctly. Is anyone willing to share their agreement language, criteria, scholarship committee makeup, process for working with HR to make sure you are meeting the…
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Telling the Story
@JoshuaBernard and I really enjoyed facilitating the conversation at our Coffee Talk today, "Telling the Story". So I've created this post to continue the discussion! What kind of stories are you telling? Who is your audience? What is your goal in telling your story? Do you use data, narratives, or visuals? What are the…
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How have professional advisors impacted your development strategy? [Coffee Talk]
Use this discussion to share experiences and best practices to supplement the Coffee Talk, Working with Professional Advisors. Other topics of discussion include: - What role do professional advisors play in your organizations? - What are some ways foundations can help professional advisors and their clients? - What…
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Award Displacement Language
I was on a coffee talk yesterday Re: WORKING WITH COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, and someone mentioned that they use Award Displacement Language in their check letters. I would really appreciate if someone could share that verbiage. Thanks😊
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Do you have a collaborative giving group (i.e. Giving Circle or Funder Forum) at your organization?
We would love to hear more about what your organization is doing! Join us for this week's Coffee Talk! Register Here
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How are you fostering relationships with your scholarship donors?
In today's Coffee Talk we discussed how Scholarship Managers are connecting with their donors to communicate the impact of their generosity. How are you using social media to connect with your students?
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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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Scholarship Donor Communication Examples
Let's crowdsource some examples of scholarship donor communication! Upload your examples or provide screenshots of your donor outreach in the comments below. #sharingiscaring
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Coffee Talk: A Goal, a Path, and a Mission: Communications Planning at Your Foundation.
We had a great and lively coffee talk exploring how community foundations do communications planning and implementation. Let's continue the discussion here - especially for everyone who shared plans for their anniversary events! Here is the link to the recording: Thank you to all who participated and joined us and special…
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Values-Based Grantmaking: Aligning Organizational Values with Grantmaking Practices
Thank you to everyone who joined us today for our Grants Coffee Talk: Values-Based Grantmaking, Aligning Organizational Values with Grantmaking Practices! We are creating this discussion space here to continue the conversation. Please share your own thoughts and examples even if you didn't raise your hand today, we'd love…
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Using Technology to Support Asset Growth Through Challenging Times
Thank you to everyone who joined us today for our Donor Management Coffee Talk: Using Technology to Support Asset Growth Through Challenging Times! We had a few requests for those who raised their hands and shared their projects with us to share some examples of the work that they have been doing. We are creating this…
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Scholarship Deferrals, Renewals and New Funding in a New Normal
We had great discussions around these three scholarship topics during today’s Coffee Talk. Our own @AlyseBraaten, Manager of Client Services, Grants and Scholarships hosted along with our special guest host @LaurenGrevel , the Education & Youth Initiatives Officer with Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. If you missed…
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Donor Management Coffee Talk: Stewardship Strategies for New Donors in The New Normal 01-06-21
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Donor Management Coffee Talk: Stewardship Strategies for New Donors in The New Normal today! We loved hearing about what you are all doing: that a few of you are having big year-end returns from your direct mailings, some fantastic virtual tour ideas for engaging your donors,…
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Hello from Bozeman
Hi everyone! My name is Abby and I am currently working as an intern here at Foundant. I am from Missoula, MT but now live in Bozeman to attend Montana State, earning a degree in business management. In my free time I like to hike with my dog, spend time with loved ones, work out, knit, and listen to podcasts. I am very…
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Scholarship Coffee Talk: Learn from the past, & look to the future
Thanks for joining us on today's Scholarship Coffee Talk! You had some brilliant suggestions for your colleagues which we will be sharing here along with the chat notes and recording link. In the meantime, please continue the discussion with questions, comments, & tips.
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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…