The previous discussion post on this topic is from 2018 and comments are closed. https://idealab.foundant.com/forums/339786-glm-slm-idea-lab/suggestions/35662252-one-user-needs-to-have-access-to-multiple-organiza

Even though there is a collaboration button now, it still does not allow me to make the user the primary contact for both organizations, which would be SO helpful.

Looking for the functionality of having one user be connected with multiple organizations. I see there was an old discussion about this, and the need is still there. There are many grant writers who need access to more than one organization account, and many hospitals and universities that have grant management teams that span departments. It would be so helpful to be able to associate one user with more than one organization.

I'm not sure what else I can add, except that this is the #3 TOP VOTED IDEA thread and has been open since July 2020. Please implement!

And no, the collaborator feature is not a solution, despite what an admin suggests on this thread: https://idealab.foundant.com/forums/339786-glm-slm-idea-lab/suggestions/12343440-one-applicant-login-for-multiple-organizations

This would solve a problem I have! Currently, I have an applicant university with several departments that are all allowed to apply for our grants. However, University policy states that the University grants manager needs to open every application that is started under any department that applies. Since an email address can only be associated with one organization at a time, this has caused us a lot of grief in setting it up so the University Grants Manager can be a contact on all the different department profiles simultaneously. It would be great to allow a single email address to be added to multiple organizations, and give the applicants the ability to toggle between which organization they're applying for.

Yes - this is definitely something that would benefit our community since we have volunteers who are the main grant contact person for multiple organizations.

We have 1 user who needs access to multiple organizations. Junior Achievement has one regional manager for our area, but their non-profit organization is broken into even smaller chunks (by school district). It would be nice if the one person could use the same login information to access each of their separate sub-organization groups. We have the sub-organizations set up as individual organizations because they run independently, they have a separate board for each chunk of our community they serve. There are multiple posts about this that are marked "implemented" due to the Collaborator Feature, but this feature does not address this issue because the login/email for each of the sub-organizations needs to be the same.
Thank you!

This has been an issue with us as well. a single volunteer can be the main contact - grant writer on 2 or 3 different organizations.

Yes, this has been a nightmare for us! We are a small community and it is very common for the same people to represent more than one organization. I am having to deactivate/manipulate current accounts for these individuals to be able to apply.

Agree. Additionally, requiring a unique email for each grant application forces applicants to use one-off emails rather than an account they monitor. GLM must change so one email can be used for multiple grants and persons in small towns involved in multiple processes.

Yes! I just had someone who is a volunteer with two organizations ask if they could do this.

In small towns you have one person heading up more than one organization. With one email restriction, it creates lots of odd appearing grants. I had one where the town cemetery was applying as fiscal sponsor for the town pool, park board, and golf course.

Agree - our folks are using their personal email addresses and would prefer not to for business purposes.

Yes, yes. Allow a user to be associated with more than one org. This is helpful for those grant writers.

Yes, please!!!!

This is an excellent idea. Please consider.

This will definitely be needed for us to administer grants training for our partner funds/component funds. We have multiple people that serve on different funds we host and to ask them to login with different email accounts will be highly discouraging.

Seriously! We need this. We have many individuals that write grants for multiple organizations, and adding them as collaborators is a quick fix, but not one that is convenient for the grant writer. If there could be some ability for a user to select from a drop down list what organization they want to work on from those they are affiliated with (similar to how users who are both applicants and evaluators can select which dashboard to view), it would be immensely helpful.

We constantly run into this issue with Grant Writers. Organization will sometimes invite the grant writer to collaborate on the application, though when working with multiple organization, the Collaboration page doesn't provide the information of which organization the application is for.