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@BenLuchsinger - thank you for sharing! what a wonderful thing to do for residents! Ah... pine trees....
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@Kellieutzinger - Little says Spring like crocus blooms!! In Virginia, they start in February and sometimes poked through snow (food for the insects that wake early). I was at my dad's this weekend, outside of Tampa on the Gulf of Mexico, and found these beauties. I immediately thought of this post and snapped a few…
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oh daffodils! i miss daffodils.... what a BEAUTIFUL thing to do for the city. here in Central Florida, Spring starts in February and hiccups around with Summer until about now... where we'll be in Summer until November-December. Florida means the land of flowers, and boy, it sure is! These tiny flowers (none larger than…
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@AlyseBraaten , below is the job description that was posted for my position in 2017, a few grants managers ago.... Not a lot has changed. I've made a few markups for what I would like to see. As for other advice on hiring.... state the salary min or max up front; state if you are allowing remote/from home, and offer info…
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Ha! In the morning and through mid-day, I can get by with "breathe" or "pause" or thinking about someone or some place that is special to me. However, by 5pm and in traffic, I reach "dear lord please get me home so I can wash and put my feet up and shut this all out!" By bedtime, I am refreshed again and can calmly…
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@AaronSpevacek I download the Foundant report to Excel and format it to fit our regular reporting, then add it to the Board Book. We had Crystal Reports that were set up WYSIWYG, and I do miss that, but am waiting patiently ;) So far, nobody is interested in the charts.... I do, however, get requests for ad-hoc reporting,…
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Hi @karynmckelvey We do things a little different... The grant award letter contains the following: "We are happy to advise you that the Board of Directors of this Foundation recently authorized approval of your Grant Request in the amount, for the purposes, and subject to the special conditions indicated below: Amount: Up…
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We never closed the office. One of the five of us worked from home April and May, and resigned at the beginning of July. The rest of us have been here for the long-haul. Our May board meeting was held as a conference call, and we were going to do a Zoom meeting last week, but the board pushed back and we held it in person,…
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I know we left this here in June, but it reminds me of when I worked elsewhere and the auditors wanted particular documents from the NPO files and we had gone paperless. I printed them from the database for the auditors the first year, and from then on, we provided them as PDF. Where I am now, we have both paper and…
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@AmyNossaman, This is such a great question! We've been making sure our Foundation website is ADA and more compliant and we're reassured that it is, but I hadn't thought about Foundant. @Marius Dereskevicius - are our applications, follow ups, reports, etc, accessible to assistive technology? on behalf of Amy, heidi
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Hi Rand, I'm glad I checked in and saw your post and question. There have been many times in 2020 where I've relied on inner peace and hope, and I have seen it in others. The smiles came back (even if usually masked), and people here are talking slower and listening more. I met grantees through virtual tours and walked a…
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Hi @annehossner! Of course I remember you! Even in all that transition, everybody at Foundant was (and has been) memorable. I saw that the current GLM certification process would be sidelined in preparation for the next version. Thank you for offering the questions for self assessment - I would like that, yes please.…
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Hi E.C. and Darah and all! I'm late finding you (so many places to check-in). I'm with the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation in Winter Park, Florida and I, too, miss gathering and discussing Foundant and its capabilities. I'm considering going through Foundant GLM certification, and wonder if any of you took up that…
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Pardon my newness to grantmaking (and being vulnerable) but shouldn't we already have a good picture of what the outcomes should/could be when we approve the grant? Am I naïve? When I look at a request, I want a sense of what they will attempt to accomplish and how … and my questions and their answers had better line up to…
