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Financial Need Scholarships - How to score
Hi! We have a portfolio of 47 scholarships we oversee, and half of them have criteria where the student must demonstrate financial need. We ask them for their household income, number of household dependents, what other financial aid they are receiving, and if there are any extenuating circumstances to their financial…
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Follow-up asking for transcript and financials
We send a follow-up at the end of each semester asking for transcripts and financials before we send out subsequent scholarship payments. After you make the final payment, do you still ask for financials and transcripts at the end of that semester? I was wondering what the point would be because the money is already spent…
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Scholarship Applications
Does anyone know if there is a requirement to obtain the date of birth, gender and citizenship for a scholarship applicant? Our current scholarship applications ask for this information, but I couldn't find anything online that says it's required. Thanks in Advance! Jennifer Brambley
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School and Student Name withheld in Fund statements
I'm curious to know if any of your donors have given you feedback about the new format for scholarship fund statements, now that the statements don't give any student information. In previous years, our scholarship fund statements indicated the name of the college or university. When we switched to CSuite, we were only…
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Donor Advised Evaluations (2)
The OCCF is in the process of finalizing our first SLM scholarship process. We usually have the scholarship committee score applications and bring those scores to DAF committees for the selection process. How do you easily share the scores with the DAF's? Or do you find another process works better? Thanks for your help!…
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Struggling with Attendance
Good afternoon Compass family! Looking to revamp some of our questions on our application and struggling with one question/answer in particular.... how to ask about excess absences or tardies that show on an applicant's high school transcript?? I would really appreciate to hear how you ask this question on your…
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Scholarship Payments and Policies
Dear colleagues, Weld Community Foundation is in the process of reviewing our Scholarship Policy, specifically regarding payments to cover cost of attendance versus qualified education expenses and also whether to allow institutions to provide refunds to the student. If your foundation's scholarship policy specifically…
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Impacts on Scholarship When a Student Withdraws Mid-Semester
Does your community foundation have a policy addressing how scholarship funds are handled if a student withdraws prior to the completion of a semester? We have a situation where a student withdrew with 3 weeks remaining in the semester. Do you request the college/university return those funds (or a portion of funds)? Do…
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Faith-based Scholarships
Hi all, We recently had a donor approach us to create a faith-based scholarship (Christian specifically). We currently don't have any awarding scholarships that have faith-based criteria. Does anyone have a fund like this? If so I would appreciate any information on how you ask this question and the essay question you ask.…
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Scholarship - Room and Board
We have a very small scholarship program to date, but have a prospective funder who is very passionate about funding a "full-ride" scholarship including room and board. I understand this will create taxable income for the student. I'm looking for examples of a scholarship program that funds room/board and how you…
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Seeking Program Specialist & Executive Assistant at Comm. Fdn. of Northern Colorado
NoCoFoundation.org/jobs-opportunities Position: Program Specialist and Executive Assistant Employment: Full time Location: Fort Collins, CO Organization Name: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado Application Deadline: Friday, December 31, 2021 Status: Full Time, exempt Reports to: President/Chief Executive Officer The…
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Parent/Guardian Certification
We have previously had a parent/guardian certification section on our application. After the Foundant SLM series this fall we are considering dropping that section on all our applications. We do collect financial information on our need-based applications mainly in the form of a questions, FAFSA SAR upload, and school…
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Texting students
Good afternoon, I was wondering if any of you use a texting software to stay in contact with scholarship students? If so, what software do you use? Thank you!
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Award Events
I would like to know when you present scholarship awards to the students, at some sort of ceremony, do you mention the dollar value of the scholarship?
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The Percentage Test - Scholarships for Corporation Employees and Dependents
I'm having difficulty with the language around our corporate scholarship percentage test. (Long story.) Does anyone have a good source for the percentage test requirements? Particularly for employees? Also, does anyone have a scholarship that combines eligibility requirements for dependents of employees along with…
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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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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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Marketing Scholarships
Hi! It seems that every year we have difficulty with our local schools advertising our scholarships. We always reach out to the guidance counselors and sometimes principals to make them aware of our scholarships, but we don't see them on their websites. We have tried marketing through various social media, but that hasn't…
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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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B.A. vs B.S. - Type of 4 year Degree for Scholarship
Hi all I have a donor who would like to limit their scholarship applications to students who will be studying for a B.S. degree only (in addition to a STEM field of study - to include nursing and vo-ag). Students planning to study at a technical, vocational, business school are also eligible to apply for a scholarship -…
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Non-traditional scholarships for adults seeking job skills retraining
Does anyone have experience managing a non-traditional scholarship program to support adults looking for job skills retraining? All of our current scholarships are traditional ones aimed at high school seniors or current college students. I would love to see examples of applications for non-traditional scholarships and…
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Reverse Scholarships
Good morning, I am interested in starting a reverse scholarship program in our area. Reverse scholarships allow graduates to receive assistance with student loan debt. Do any of you manage a program like this? If so, I have a few questions: Did you get a legal opinion before starting the program? Are you issuing 1099's?…
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Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
Good afternoon! I am in the process of trying to define financial need for our scholarship program. I would like to target students that will not receive a Pell grant or any institutional aid. This is part of the formula I came up with "EFC greater than or equal to 6495 and less than 20000". I am trying to target students…
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How to reduce award displacement
During our webinar yesterday "Tips & Tricks for Working with Financial Aid" we shared a list of ways to reduce award displacement curated by National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) We hope you find the below list helpful, and continue adding ways that you are helping students to navigating working with financial…
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Scholarship Fund Minimums and Admin Fees
Hello, We are considering changing our minimums for donors wanting to start Scholarship Funds. We are also considering changing the annual administrative fee for scholarship funds. I was charged with the task of gathering information from other Community Foundations. I would appreciate your input on: What is the minimum…
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What gaps do you see in scholarship opportunities for students?
We are currently evaluating our general high school scholarship fund to see if we are making the best impact for our local students. I am reaching out to other foundations, counselors, local students, but wanted to see if any of you have any data or information on what kind of student is being missed by scholarship…
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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…
