Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
All of the key communications with applicants for the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation are now online, streamlining the grant process and creating consistency.
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In 2017, we hatched an idea. What would happen if we surveyed our community of grantmakers and grantseekers to gather their collective experience, knowledge, and advice? What would we learn? And, how could we leverage that knowledge to help maximize the impact of the philanthropic community? The response was humbling…and the Foundant Philanthropy Experience was born.
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4 Resilient Trends from the COVID Era that Philanthropy Can (and should) Maintain
COVID has impacted every person, community, and organization across the globe. Today, together, the world is grappling to find a new balance between the challenges and loss COVID has brought with adju
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NCFP and The Engaging Youth Retreat: A Recap
Find out what best practices were discussed during NCFP's Engaging Youth Peer Network Retreat for engaging the next generation of philanthropy!
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Scholarship Provider Coffee Talk: Post-Award Communication… or Lack Of
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?
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Finance Coffee Talk: Preparing for Calendar Year-End. Don't let the Grinch Steal Your Holiday Cheer.
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.
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Security Q&A with High Point Networks
Foundant and High Point Networks teamed up to provide answers to your Cybersecurity fears.
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Scholarship Provider Coffee Talk: Payments, Parents, and Letters of Recommendation - Oh My!
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.
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Grants Coffee Talk: Non-monetary Grantmaking and Assistance
A recent emphasis has been put on providing assistance intended to build a nonprofit’s internal capacity. Listen to your peers share experiences in the what, why, and how of non-monetary grantmaking.
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Grants Coffee Talk: Nonprofit Due Diligence and Supporting Documents
Learn the importance and variety of methods for performing nonprofit due diligence in grantmaking, what documents your peers are collecting, and how they’re using them to better their grantmaking!
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Donor Management Coffee Talk: Legacy / Planned Giving (Part 2)
This second installment of the Legacy / Planned Giving discussion webinar focuses on the Donor Relations and Donor Engagement perspective.
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Data Traps: Breaking Free
Dealing with data leaving you overwhelmed? Here is our list of common data traps and how you can break free of them.
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Scholarship Provider Coffee Talk: Universal Application and Communication
As scholarship providers you balance the needs of many different groups. In this Coffee talk we walk through what we have heard, what we have experienced, and how Universal Apps can help everyone.
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Notes from the Field: Three Foundant Clients Share their Experiences in Evaluation and Learning
Foundant CSM, E.C. Byrnes, follows up her article Funders, Take a tip from Michaelangelo, by sharing three client's perspectives on what evaluation and learning mean to their organizations.
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Finance Coffee Talk: Legacy / Planned Giving (Part 1)
Use this group discussion between community foundation finance peers around Legacy / Planned Giving to leverage your industry network and learn how others have responded to a variety of topics.
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Donor Management Coffee Talk: Relationship Engagement and Fundraising
Learn from your peers about what metrics they report to their board, what their best donor stewardship strategy is, and what their biggest obstacles for successful donor relations and fundraising are.
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Technology ROI for Community Foundations
Community foundations bring together resources to improve the lives of all. They work to solve community problems, support nonprofits, and help individuals learn to be impactful donors.
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Finance Coffee Talk: 2018 Tax Code
This finance discussion is led by your community foundation finance peers around the 2018 new tax code and accounting guidance. Leverage your industry network to learn how others have responded.
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Guide: Maximize Your Data Collection Efforts
Information overload is a risk as grantmakers & grantseekers navigate their roles as collectors, analyzers, or users of data. Finding out how others are doing it is key to setting your own strategy.
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Working as a Team: Tips for Successfully Managing Change
What needs to change? Do you simply need to set a more efficient process in place for staff to follow? Or do you need to evaluate technology options to help you become more efficient?
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Donor Management Coffee Talk: Development and Donor Relations (Part 2)
This on-demand group discussion with your community peers discusses a variety of topics about donor relations and fundraising. Leverage your industry network to understand challenges and solutions.
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