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  1. I'd love an option to hide old requests from the applicants when they go to log in - sometimes we have applicants with so many old requests/LOIs that their dashboard is too confusing to look at. I'd still like to be able to see all old requests on our end, but our applicants don't always need to see every abandoned LOI in their organizational history.

    21 votes

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  2. It would be nice when you click on Organization Search if the cursor would automatically go to Organization and you could tab to another box if you were searching by Tax ID, city or state. And to be able to click enter and not having to click your mouse down to Search.

    8 votes

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  3. An applicant informed me that there are new Top Level Domain (TLD) names - other than just .com, .org, .info, etc. He had an email address that is uncommon but is now included among the TLDs (I believe it ended in .solutions). However, when he tried to input it in Foundant, it was not accepted. So, he suggested I ask if you can update your list of TLDs that the Foundant system accepts.

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  4. Integer questions should accept decimals, at least to one digit. We use this field for percentages that need the additional info.

    7 votes

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  5. Currently, as long as an applicant has started an application, they can submit regardless of the fact that the deadline date has already passed. As a result, we end up having to make calls to applicants telling them they've missed the deadline (sometimes by as much as two weeks) and that their submissions will not be put before the board. Can we get this changed?

    Thanks,
    Mary

    Idea posted May 14, 2012 by Mary Nicosia, GMA Foundations

    42 votes

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    Implemented  ·  20 comments  ·  Dates  ·  Admin →
  6. I have a grant writer who is applying on behalf of two separate organizations but she only has one email address. Is there a way she can use one email address for two different organizations?

    posted October 1, 2012 by Kishawn Leuthauser, The Louis and Harold Price Foundation

    12 votes

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    With our February 2024 Release we have implemented an admin workflow to associated users with multiple organization.  You can learn more about this release here: https://support.foundant.com/hc/en-us/articles/20894342820759

    In a spirit of continuous improvement we will continue to evolve this feature and thank you for partnership. To provide feedback on this implementation and suggest next steps please reach out to our product team or post a new idea.

    -The Foundant Team

  7. It would be great to be able to share uploaded documents with applicants. I am talking about documents not part of a form but still related to a specific application. Specifically, I would love for grant partners to be able to see a copy of their signed grant agreement. These agreements are the only paper documents we still keep and we often receive requests for information in these documents. Agreements have original signatures of both our President and the grant partner's leadership and include reporting dates, grant restrictions, program budget and goals. These agreements are uploaded to individual applications in…

    1 vote

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  8. Our Foundation just started using electronic grant agreements for our Winter funding cycle. We came to the realization that grantees can edit several important report fields such as amount funded. We think it would be wonderful it Foundant would be able to make it so that only administrators of grant agreements can edit these important boxes or possibly set permissions so that if a grantee did try to change the amount in the box they would need a special password. We realize that the odds of someone changing the amount funded is slim, but we would not like to tempt…

    3 votes

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  9. It would be great to use follow-up forms/items internally, too. This is helpful especially for clients like us who still do a s substantial amount of manual data entry. It would be great if we had the option to "Assign To" an administrator, and then reports tracking, electronic signature agreements, etc could be better managed. Plus, this would make our dashboard far more effective. [this idea was born out of the Grants Management session at the Foundant Conference]

    posted September 6, 2012 by Jen Bokoff, Laurie M Tisch Illumination Fund

    15 votes

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    Implemented  ·  8 comments  ·  Follow Ups  ·  Admin →
  10. The change in Print Packet to include EVERY LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION including the Question Number, the Questions, Instructions for the question, all items on the drop downs of a questions, an Answer headline, has made the size of the applications too large, unwieldly and ridiculous! The size of the applications have tripled making it much more difficult to quickly get to the information you are looking for.

    This was an idea that was good in theory and HORRENDOUS in practice.

    I will not ad an application to this issue, because it is probably too big and will crash the…

    1 vote

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  11. The ability to generate mail merge letters connected to grants -- decisions, transmittals, payments etc. -- is critical to us. At the current time there are only two mail merge capabilities: a blank "letter" to a contact at the organizational level and mail merge connected to a decision.

    For a one time grant, that is just fine. But, I would suggest that a mail merge capabiity be connected to a payment. For example, if we award a grant with five annual payments, in order to generate a merge document, such as a letter to accompany say the 5th payment, we…

    1 vote

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    Implemented  ·  15 comments  ·  Merge Docs  ·  Admin →
  12. At the current time there is no one person in a grantee organization that can see all the grants submitted from that organization since the system is based on each user rather than an organization. We have grantees, though, with multiple programs and departments (e.g., a university) that want to (a) manage the overall relationship with our foundation and (b) see all the grants they have submitted to us. Is it possible to provide a means for the primary contact to see everything submitted, approved, etc. for that organization?

    Idea posted June 1, 2012 by Skip Moore, Weaver Foundation

    2 votes

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  13. It would be nice to have the "Log In As User" button appear consistently when looking at a user's details.

    Right now, when you choose "Edit Contact" from the page summarizing an application, you can edit contact details but not log in as that user. However, when you choose "Edit" from the organization summary page you can edit contact details and log in as that user.

    My suggestion would be to put the "Log In As User" botton any place you can edit a user's details.

    Aaron

    Idea posted August 10, 2011 by Aaron Spevacek, Foundant Technologies

    1 vote

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  14. Batch processing allows administrators to select a group of requests and perform an action against those selected requests.

    Proposed batch processing options:

    Denying grant requestsAssigning evaluators to grant requestsAssigning follow-ups to grantsClosing (archiving) grants
    Rate and comment on this idea. Let us know if any one of these is more important or if you'd like to add to this list.

    Idea posted April 28, 2011 by Raymond Burket, Foundant Technologies

    1 vote

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    Implemented  ·  13 comments  ·  Batch  ·  Admin →
  15. I know it's not built to, but there needs to be some place where you can pull form data and SAVE that to pull again. If SAVE functionality could be added to Export Data, that could work too. This would make certain lists much easier to look at. THANKS CORY MIKE AND GRANT!

    posted September 6, 2012 by Jen Bokoff, Laurie M Tisch Illumination Fund

    2 votes

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  16. I would like to archive organizations that we will most likely not grant to in the future. I know I can archive older processes, and would like to do something similar with organizations.. It would be helpful to be able to click on Organizations and get a full list of only current/active orgs. Perhaps if there where another search criterion to select any organization assocated with a certain process - at least I could get the list narrowed down some.

    Idea posted May 29, 2013 by Pat Davis, Wyss Foundation

    2 votes

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  17. Currently when I look at an organization’s “Organization Application and Grant History “ section this is generally what I see:

    Date Project Name Type of Grant Status Grant Amount Paid Amount

    3/24/2011 Local Roots Summer Concert Series One Time Follow Up Draft $2,700.00 $2,700.00

    6/2/2011 Minnesota Sinfonia N/A Evaluations Assigned $0.00 $0.00

    3/24/2011 Raku Firing with James Loso N/A Denied $0.00 $0.00

    As we start getting more and more grants per organization it is getting harder to keep the applications a part. It would be nice if maybe there was a heading in this section that said “Process Name” At…

    1 vote

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  18. It would be helpful to be able to add follow ups from the decision\approval page.

    1 vote

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  19. It would be helpful if the link to Return to Application Submitted appeared at the top of a propoal as well as the very end. Sometimes we don't want to scroll to the bottom to return there, such as when we are looking up something that is at the beginning of the proposal. This would save time.

    On a minor note, should the Dashboard say "Applications Submitted;" that is a plural of application?

    Idea posted October 5, 2011 by Judith Bardes, The Douty Foundation

    2 votes

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  20. I like clean data and so having many organization records with duplicate contacts drives me nuts. Deactivating a user doesn't delete them from the contacts, unfortunately. I would like to see a holding tank where we could move the duplicates so they don't clutter user information. In lieu of that, I'll have to create a dummy organization where I can store all the dupes.

    Idea posted June 16, 2011 by Leslie Wozniak, Five Bridges Foundation

    1 vote

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