Improved Grant Catalog Capabilities
We are in the process of launching our first grant catalog. We have carefully curated the catalog, retitling it the Giving Gallery and selecting a diverse range of requests. We are eager to share this opportunity with our donors and larger community. However we have a few notes for consideration.
When a fund advisor goes to their portal and selects "Grant Catalog", they are met with the requests. Upon clicking inside the requests, they have two options for funding: make a donation and make a grant request. A lot of our donors, like many CF's, are older and may be confused by the different options. Many fundholders do not know what a grant is--they think of all gifts as donations. I would prefer they only have the option to create an advisement to limit confusion and supplement DAF engagement.
When scrolling the catalog, the preview text of the request becomes a homogenous form, difficult to distinguish. The short description does not have HTML coding capabilities. If it were to, it would help distinguish the text greatly.
The grant request categories are the same, internally to our staff and externally to grant catalog users. I would like to use categories in the catalog, but cannot because our categories are not simple enough for donors to navigate. We should have increase capabilities to have grant catalog specific categories that do not interfere with the pre-existing internal categories.
All of these options would greatly supplement the user experience of the catalog.
Fallon Markwell
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