Coffee Talk: Telling the Story
How do you collect and share the story of your grantmaking? Do you engage their board with grantee stories, or use narrative in your appeals?
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Coffee Talks
A place to learn and share with other community foundations, scholarship providers, grantmakers, and more.
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Coffee Talk: Working with Professional Advisors
Working with professional advisors is a valuable part of your team's development strategy and a tool that can take your work to the next level.
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Coffee Talk: Working with Colleges and Universities
Working with colleges and universities is an important part of any scholarship administrators job. Whether making payments, checking registration, or monitoring long term eligibility, knowing the best
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Coffee Talk: Impact Investing - Expanding Your Outreach In Your Community
Impact Investing is an investment strategy that seeks to generate financial returns while also creating a positive social or environmental impact. In today's Community Foundation world this is the nex
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Coffee Talk: Collaborative Giving through Giving Circles & Funder Forums
Collaborative giving groups can be a great starting place for larger philanthropic engagement. Check out this coffee talk where we discussed: What groups do you have in place and how do they work?
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Coffee Talk: Staying Connected and Engaged with your Board of Directors and Committees
Your Board of Directors and various Committees should be your biggest supporters and advocates, not just seat warmers!
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Coffee Talk: Staying Connected with Scholarship Donors
Fostering good relationships with Scholarship Donors is an important part of administrating scholarships, but is often an area where expectations get misaligned. Listen to this coffee talk where we sp
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Coffee Talk: Building Relationships in the time of COVID
Listen to this Grants Coffee Talk where your peers shared how they are building and managing relationships with applicants, grantees, and others.
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Coffee Talk: Annual Report Planning starts now!
Listen to this Donor and Constituent Engagement Coffee Talk where peers shared how to plan and develop your Annual Report. A requirement for many - this document can quickly become stale and repetitiv
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Coffee Talk: Cheers to Another Unique Year!
Listen to this Finance Coffee Talk that wrapped up 2021 as we headed into the year-end giving season. Let's give cheers to another unique year
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Coffee Talk: Fall Scholarship Communication
Listen to this Scholarship Coffee Talk where we will discussed how you are getting the word out about your scholarships.
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Coffee Talk: Reducing Applicant Burden
Trust-based philanthropy is a hot topic these days, and for good reason. Given unprecedented challenges, organizations and applicants are having to work even harder to serve their constituents. Funde
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Coffee Talk: A Goal, a Path, and a Mission - Communications Planning at Your Foundation
Hear how your Donor Engagement peers approach communicating with their donors, grantees, and stakeholders. Learn about new strategies, ideas, and resources for your organization.
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Coffee Talk: Summer Activities for Scholarship Programs
Listen to this Scholarship Coffee Talk session where we will discuss summer activities for scholarship programs including activities with students, program assessment, and donor connections.
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Coffee Talk: New Normal for Accounting Processes and Roles
In this Finance Coffee Talk we discuss how accounting functions are operating in today’s new environment and what you’re looking to accomplish in the second half of 2021.
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Coffee Talk: Values-Based Grantmaking: Aligning Organizational Values with Grantmaking Practices
Watch this Coffee Talk to hear what peers have to say about the meaning and implications of moving towards values-based grantmaking.
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Coffee Talk: Using Technology to Support Asset Growth Through Challenging Times
This Donor Engagement Coffee Talk dives into using technology to support asset growth through challenging times.
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Coffee Talk: Managing Scholarships in a New Normal (Deferrals, Referrals, and New Funding)
As we enter a new year, COVID continues to change how we serve students and donors. How we manage and communicate these changes to students and donors will be critical in delivering stable funding.
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Coffee Talk: Establishing Resilient Data Practices
2020 presented each funder with their own set of overlapping challenges. This interactive session explores how funders were forced to change practices around the data they collected.
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Coffee Talk: Stewardship Strategies for New Donors in the New Normal
This Coffee Talk covers building stewardship strategies for new donors in the “new normal”. Identify ways to embrace your organization’s new friends without being able to do so in person.
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