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Tips for creating and forecasting a managed funds budget
As we all strive to effectively manage and grow our funds to support our mission and community, I’m interested in learning more about best practices for creating and forecasting a managed funds budget. Specifically, I’d like to hear from you on the following points: Revenue Projections: How do you estimate investment…
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Field of Interest Funds
Can anyone share any information they have or sample fund agreements for their Field of Interest funds? We are wanting to fine tune our policies around these types of funds as well as update our fund agreement to align. Thank you in advance.
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Agency funds training
Hi all, We're creating a webinar for our nonprofit agency funds to review the basics of the funds (if they're new to the org/org's board, or need a refresher), answer FAQs, and remind them of the nonprofit support services we offer. We also try to meet one on one with these nonprofits, but we know frequent turnover…
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New Donor and online donor stewardship
We've just finished our second year using CSuite including the online giving functionality and are seeing an increased # of gifts and average gift $ for our online gifts. This has led us to re-examine how we intersect with these donors. Do you utilize the auto-tax receipt feature in Csuite and/or the auto-tax receipt in…
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Sharing Fund info (not permissions) with non-Advisor family/descendants?
Good morning, Years ago, we had a sub-fund created in honor of "Sally" by one of our Affiliate Fund boards after her passing. The Fund supports the grantmaking activity of the Affiliate so the Affiliate is the technical Fund Advisor. The granddaughter of "Sally" now wants to get engaged with the fund and maybe help it…
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Leveraging Donation Portal to Support Fundraising Efforts
Outside of COVID19 disaster relief funds, we've never really leveraged the customization of the donation portal through CSuite/Stripe to highlight other funds and their work. As we are looking to grow our development team and the ways in which we support donors and fund holders interested in fundraising, I've wondered…
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Electronic Fund Agreements - Establishing New Funds
Hello - have any foundations transitioned to electronic fund agreements for on-boarding new donor advised funds? I'm considering different options like DocuSign and appreciate any recommendations or lessons learned anyone has to share. Thank you, Leeann
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Looking for how to's and tips re beginning Professional Advisor engagement
We are looking for ideas, and resource samples - if you are willing, regarding Professional Advisor engagement. We don't have a formal "program" but would like to begin reaching out to Advisors to form partnerships. Can you share any info re the below? Your answer may fit in several of questions - just posing the questions…
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Identifying Volunteer Stewards
We would like to identify our Volunteer Stewards in CSuite and wonder how others might be doing this. We don't want to make them Foundant users. Currently I have them set up in the Relationship tab with a Relationship Type of 'Volunteer Steward'. With the addition of Custom Fields I'm wondering if there is a more efficient…
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Field of Interest Fund
Our foundation has one field of interest fund and we have had a question about Board insurance come up. The field of interest fund has it's own Board of directors and committees and they are overseen by the foundation staff and BOD. The fund has been paying D&O insurance which can be quite expense for a small organization…
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Database Ranking - Development Plan
Hello, I have been working our Development Committee to put a system together to rank our database and determine categories and scoring for follow-up and marketing based on a profiles score. We have been progressing along but I have hit a bit of a hurdle. Our database is very large, 14,000+ donor profiles to export,…
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Do your (DAF) fund fees contribute to discretionary grantmaking?
Hi Compass, Triangle Community Foundation is looking to benchmark our funding peers who attribute a part of their fund fees directly into their discretionary grantmaking program. This has arisen as one of many potential ways to operationalize our values of equity and community directly into our fund policies. What, if any,…
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Setting up a scholarship fund in the midst of a tragic death
I know those of you who offer scholarship funds have encountered this before.... A family loses a child in a tragic death and wants to set up a scholarship fund A.S.A.P. because they want to direct memorial gifts to that fund. Putting aside the issue of whether or not they will raise enough in memorial gifts to establish a…
