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Hello, Friends! I am the Director of Marketing Communications for Foundant+SmartSimple+GivingData and I'm excited to share a new content series we will publish over the next few months. We started with our "High-Impact Board Development: Strategic Tools for Foundation Governance Excellence" webinar on 8/5. We will continue…
Hello, Friends! I am the Director of Marketing Communications for Foundant+SmartSimple+GivingData and I'm excited to share a new content series we will be publishing over the next few months. We started with our "How Foundations are Using AI to Multiply Mission Impact" webinar on 7/24 and will be continuing the series next…
Hello! I am curious to learn about other foundation’s scholarship acceptance workflow to see if there’s a way to simplify my foundation’s scholarship acceptance workflow. Currently, they have a two-step process. First, the student signs a scholarship agreement, which confirms they are still attending college. I use…
Hello - looking to institute an external review committee and wondered if anyone might be willing to share a job description example. Thank you in advance.
This is a rather practical question. Our staff have travel and office expenses paid personally to be reimbursed by our Foundation. Is there a reasonably priced Mobile App that you might suggest to capture and categorize the receipts to make things easier and less time consuming for our staff and bookkeeper?
Hello- We are wondering if anyone uses CSuite to track conflict of interest for boards and committee. We have been looking at using the Org Roles to identify conflicts AND easily export that information for meetings and 990 prep. Example: a profile would be connected to ABC Organization with the role type "COI- Board…
It is week two of cyber security awareness month! Don’t reuse the same password across websites. If one of those sites gets compromised, hackers will try that password on other sites as well. No matter the account, all passwords should be created with these three words in mind: Long – At least 12 characters Use the longest…
Our LOIs and Applications are very similar from year to year. I am looking for some new questions that would help us learn more from the organizations. What questions would make the organizations stand out based on their potential answers? They could be very specific targeted questions or larger, big picture questions.…
Hi, I work for a Community Foundation in Vero Beach, Florida and we have a quarterly grant cycle process. Throughout our county we have about six other funders (our local United Way and several philanthropic neighborhoods) who have annual grant cycle processes. Do you have a similar network of local funders? Do you…
Favorite Excel Keyboard Shortcuts: Shift+Space: Select an entire row Ctrl+Space: Select an entire column Ctrl+Shift+Plus: Insert a new row or column above or to the left of the selected row or column Ctrl+Minus: Delete the selected row or column Alt+Plus: Calculate the sum of selected cells Ctrl+9: Hide selected rows…
