Minimizing Administrative Overhead, Maximizing Impact
The most successful foundations are the ones with the greatest impact, whose administrators are able to channel the most funds to those charities that can do the most good with them. A key part of accomplishing this is minimizing administrative overhead, which can be done by creating clear workflows and reducing the need for repetitive tasks. By ensuring a minimum of administrivia, your best minds can focus on unleashing the maximum impact of the funds they manage in the shortest time possible.
Good grant management software will help you create clear workflows and prevent tasks from falling into the void where it is unclear who owns the next step. It will also help reduce the number of repetitive tasks and simplify their execution. Task status and priority will be visible to the entire team, who will know where to go to get their next work item.
In addition to that, great grant management software will notify the appropriate team member when new tasks are created and priorities change. It will eliminate repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable mindspace for strategic decision making. Most importantly, great grant management software enables grantmakers to tie impact back to funding, empowering them to continually make the most impactful decisions regarding who they fund and when they fund them. Its easily configurable workflows support all the “flavors” of your grantmaking, not only the typical grant cycle but rapid grantmaking in response to urgent events.
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From Communicating to Collaborating
You can’t change the world without engaging the world. Successful foundations are constantly communicating with donors, partners, grantees, grant applicants, and their team. They may also find it useful to communicate with lawmakers, and necessary at times to communicate with regulators. Effective communication should be bidirectional, efficient in addressing multiple sources with a single communication, and deliver transparency or privacy as needs dictate.
Good grant management software will help you organize your communications and keep your team on the same page. It will enable you to quickly and easily connect with grant applicants to better vet them, and grantees to better determine how effectively your funds are being applied. It will enable your team to hold all communications related to a particular application or grantee in one place, speeding up their work.
Great grant management software goes beyond communication to enable true collaboration. Not only communications but attachments and related resources become instantly available to all involved with a particular grantseeker or grantee. Reports and impact analysis can be shared with partners and donors with a click of a button, effortlessly highlighting your success and priming the pump for the next round of collaboration or donations.
Furthermore, a great grant management software provider goes beyond being a vendor to being a true partner. Such a software maker is your thought partner with deep knowledge of philanthropy and experience that will help you rethink the way you grant and take advantage of best practices.
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The Right Questions to Ask
- Could your team be more impactful with less administrative overhead?
- Would streamlining your communications and increasing your collaboration with stakeholders and team members increase your effectiveness?
- Would a solution that offers greater transparency with grantees and a more streamlined approach to grantmaking decrease your overall administrative effort?
- Are you looking for a solution that offers customized support options?
- Are you ready to stop the busy work and start to automate your cumbersome tasks?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, take the first step in increasing your team’s effectiveness today. Contact us to learn how Fluxx can start making your life easier, your work more efficient, and your capacity to do good works even greater!
