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Welcome to Compass: A Foundant Community!
The Compass community has been created as a space for discovering solutions, learning helpful tips and tricks, contributing expertise and exchanging ideas with others in the philanthropic sector.
Here are our Community Rules:
Keep your posts relevant to the forum category.
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Please be respectful of others and don’t sweat the small stuff.
In short: Be kind, have fun, and let’s help each other enrich the philanthropic community!
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Recent Discussions
Nice to Meet You!
Hey everyone! My name is Estella Coghlan, and I am one of the new Client Support Interns here at Foundant Technologies. I became interested in working for Foundant after I heard about the strong internship program. I am originally from Mandan, ND, and have a background in the food service industry and office admin. I…
Newly Hired Client Support Intern
Hey everyone, my name is Kyle Shick and I am the new Client Support Intern here at Foundant Technologies. I became interested in working for Foundant as I was going through my search for different internship opportunities. Foundant really stood out with the role, longevity, and niche that the company operates in. I am…
November's Top 10 🌟
Congratulations to @AmberWestbrook1, @elizabethschroeder, @MichelleGruhn, @MariannePlath, @MonicaRojas, @KelleyHoagland, @AngelaBreslin, @GregStanley, @RichLucas, and @RichardDudley for being on the November Top 10 Leaderboard! As a token of our appreciation, each of you will be entered into a draw for a special surprise.…
Emergency scholarship funds
Good morning, Do any of you provide scholarship students with emergency funds (funds for living expenses, emergency school expenses, etc.)? If so, what is your process like? What are the pros and cons of a program like this? Thank you! Robin Cowles Fremont Area Community Foundation, MI
Does anyone else have challenges with unidentified stock gifts?
We routinely get stock gifts into our Schwab account with no additional information. We have a process for sharing stock transfer information with donors but once someone has that information it's easy for them to send other gifts and frequently we receive stocks with no indication who it's from or for which fund it's…
Fund Segmentation
Hi all, This is a follow up from the AdNet call last week to connect with those who said they used Foundant CSuite and wanted to connect to have further conversation around fund segmentation and stewardship tools within CSuite. I wasn't able to tag everyone, so will send this link within an email. Hopefully others in the…
Budget Software/Tools/Apps
Our Foundation operates on a calendar year, but we are heavily funded by other foundations so many of our funds have budgets that span over several years. We find that the budgeting tool in CSuite will not meet our needs. We wondered if any other Foundations are using another software/tool or app to supplement their…
What tool does your foundation use to manage contacts?
Hello, We are a private foundation and use GLM to manage our grantmaking. We are evaluating how we manage contacts at our organization, and are interested in learning how other foundations using GLM are managing contacts. What do you use?
Stripe Fees
I was curious if anyone has stripe fees going into a separate fund at your organization versus going back into the fund the donor is making the donation to. If you do, is it your operations fund or did you create a new fund? I'm also curious if other foundations are covering the cost of the stripe fee if the donor doesn't…
Credit Card Services for Managed Funds
For fundholders that fundraise to grow their fund, do you pass on the credit card fees to the fund? If so, how and when do you expense the fee to the fund (a quarterly journal entry, manual admin fee…)?
Trending Discussions
Nice to Meet You!
Hey everyone! My name is Estella Coghlan, and I am one of the new Client Support Interns here at Foundant Technologies. I became interested in working for Foundant after I heard about the strong internship program. I am originally from Mandan, ND, and have a background in the food service industry and office admin. I…
Newly Hired Client Support Intern
Hey everyone, my name is Kyle Shick and I am the new Client Support Intern here at Foundant Technologies. I became interested in working for Foundant as I was going through my search for different internship opportunities. Foundant really stood out with the role, longevity, and niche that the company operates in. I am…
November's Top 10 🌟
Congratulations to @AmberWestbrook1, @elizabethschroeder, @MichelleGruhn, @MariannePlath, @MonicaRojas, @KelleyHoagland, @AngelaBreslin, @GregStanley, @RichLucas, and @RichardDudley for being on the November Top 10 Leaderboard! As a token of our appreciation, each of you will be entered into a draw for a special surprise.…
Does anyone else have challenges with unidentified stock gifts?
We routinely get stock gifts into our Schwab account with no additional information. We have a process for sharing stock transfer information with donors but once someone has that information it's easy for them to send other gifts and frequently we receive stocks with no indication who it's from or for which fund it's…