Allow a Beneficiary to assign a grant advisor to all future grants
When we process annual distributions, it is a compilation of recurring grants and beneficiaries. While recurring grants can have a grant advisor assigned to it in perpetuity, a beneficiary cannot.
We want a beneficiary to be able to have a grant advisor drop down just as recurring grants do. This will allow us to honor our fundholder's intentions to share their information with grantees and not cause us to have to individually mark and update each beneficiary grant each year, which creates so many opportunities for mistakes.
We were initially recommended to use a grant alert on the fund that reminded our Grants administrator to assign a grant advisor. However, beneficiary grants typically get processed in bulk and you only see the alert when you are looking at the individual grant. It hasn't been a great solution for us.
Laurel Shulman
shared this idea
3/31/2025:Idea Lab Live:
Funds: Added the Grant Advisor field to Grant Beneficiary table on fund. This will allow users to select from a list of fund advisors for the fund to complete the grant advisor field on spendable grants upon creation. This field will be a limited list of fund advisors on the fund.
Grants: Updated spendable grants to allow for the grant advisors to be populated from the fund record in the Fund Beneficiary table. When creating spendable grants, the field will populate on the table for users to review before processing the grants. Users will be able to remove and then edit the grant advisor from the grant new bucket.
Fund Advisors: Updated internal grants to send donation notifications to the fund advisor, if the Donation Notify checkbox is enabled for the fund advisor. Prior to this release internal donation did not send notifications to the fund advisors. This notification will populate from Donation Content donation_notify_email_body.