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Hello @AnnSiciliano, Not sure if this is reaching you too late, but here are my responses. We are a CF as well. We distribute about $1.7M annually. Does the community foundation have specific areas of interest when granting funds from your unrestricted endowment? As a CF, we feel compelled to fund all nonprofit sectors. We…

@WendyAbel - I'd be interested in seeing your five metrics too if you're willing to share. We've been looking at how we can aggregate impact data to share with stakeholders. Our funding areas are very diverse which makes it difficult to identify common metrics. Great conversation!

Hi Johnna, We shoot for 4 - 6 weeks. For us, any less seems like we're not responsive and flexible for our applicants, and any more doesn't seem to garner additional applications. I agree with @Daniellewhitmore. Last-minute application submissions are an eternal reality, and our applicants seem to find our annual…

Hi Kaitlyn, I've attached the one that we use. It's worked pretty well for us. Good luck!