Add the Ability to Reserve/Assign Incoming Grants to Staff Members
We need a way to reserve incoming grants from the request bucket to an individual staff member, because we have two people who work on processing DAF grants, due to large volume. Ideally, we would “reserve” multiple grants at once, and no one else would be able to edit these grants, even while they are in the “new” bucket. Once they move into the “approval” bucket, we would “unreserve” them so that they can be batch vouchered together. This would avoid duplication of profiles and grants themselves. Since more than one staff member is working on grants at once, sometimes the requests in the “request” bucket are duplicated—creating more work on our end.
Alternatively, we would need to put a new measure in place that prevents the duplication of grant requests in the “request” bucket. Now, if we both click “create grant” at the same, it will create a duplicate record of the grant—essentially processing it twice, leading to duplicate grant payments and profile creations for new organizations— the system is not catching the duplications since they are created within a split second of each other.
But we are open to other solutions to this issue from Foundant.
Amy Staufenberg
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Trish Mayhorn
commented
This would be a big help to our DAF grants team!