Donor Management Coffee Talk: Development and Donor Relations (Part 1)

We all want next year’s scholarship season to go more smoothly than the last. Despite the strange interruptions during this last year, we have an opportunity to learn a lot.

During this Donor Engagement Coffee Talk we cover COVID-19 recovery initiatives looking at the rest of 2020. We identify strategies that are working well in our current climate, and ways to improve.

Upcoming conversations with trustees and grantees could indicate that new funding strategies and partnerships will be necessary in light of lessons learned during the pandemic.

As cities begin to re-open and communities regroup across the country, our day-to-day work may look different than we’d envisioned. Listen to your accounting peers as they share their experience.

This discussion is focused on lessons that can be learned from other economic downturns and how others are balancing immediate community needs and long term organizational stability of grantees.

In this session we discuss immediate need vs. long term recovery, balancing annual operating fundraising with critical response fundraising, changes in operations, solicitation methods, and more.

During this scholarships discussion we discuss “Summer Melt” programming, celebrating award recipients this year, and timelines for universities for Fall and how that affects everyone's work.

Listen in as your peers discuss their currently reality, including changes to frequency of transactions, from extra time for projects to no time at all, and grant, donation, and non-profit stories.

Listen as your peers discuss the following. How are you assisting grantees with their immediate financial stability or sustainability? How are you adjusting grantmaking for the rest of the year?

During this session we discuss fundraising, granting, and technology. How are your peers are using Donor Matches? Employee Hardship Funds? How are peers remaining connected with donors and colleagues?

Your peers discuss the following topics - how they are handling interviews needed for student selection, how they are bringing their committees together for selection meetings, and more!

In this second session of our Finance COVID-19 Coffee Talk series, we discuss the following: managing an emergency response, internal control in a remote environment, and monitoring market conditions.

In this session we discuss the following: What needs are you seeing that you might not have expected? How are you supporting current grantees? How are you evaluating opportunities from new grantees?

During this Donor Management COVID-19 session we discuss donor engagement through social distancing, volunteer engagement, communicating with donors about COVID-19, and community partnerships.

In this first session of our Finance COVID Coffee Talk series, we discuss the following: working remote, processing transactions, and strategy in the near future.

In this first session of our Scholarship Management COVID Coffee Talk series, we discuss the following: adjusting deadlines and requirements, online evaluation, and committee meetings and selection.

Hear the questions your peers are asking, the challenges they are facing, and how they are tackling common issues around COVID-19 in their grantmaking.

Keeping open lines of communication with your awardees can be difficult - and the award is just the beginning! If after your efforts, students are still lacking documentation, what happens next?

This group discussion with community foundation finance peers is around managing your year-end accounting needs. In this session you'll learn how others have responded to a variety topics of topics.

Scholarship programs are different, but still have many of the same components. During this coffee talk, we focus on some of the management pieces that affect all scholarship providers.