Streamline your program management with software for education foundations
Streamline operations, deepen stakeholder relationships, and maximize the impact of every dollar invested in student success and institutional advancement.
Trusted by foundations across the globe
Simplify processes across your foundation
Use workflows to improve efficiency
Reduce administrative burden so you can focus more on your mission and the communities you serve.
Examine relevant and real-time data analytics
Access up-to-date financials and student data instantly. Custom dashboards and reports make it easy to track progress and share insights with board members and stakeholders.
Reduce errors with integrated fund accounting
Eliminate the need for multiple systems. CommunitySuite combines accounting, CRM, with grant and scholarship management into one platform, reducing errors and saving time.
Engage our subject matter experts
Our Client Support teams have years of experience in the social good sector to help support best practices and streamline workflows for your unique foundation.
Build relationships with students, schools, and donors
Collaborate seamlessly with educators, schools, and donors
Maintain open, real-time communication to support long-term educational outcomes.
Track correspondence and updates effortlessly
Log site visits, virtual meetings, and community engagement to build a complete picture of each partnership.
Enjoy a 360° view of a student’s or grantee’s history with your foundation
Access a full timeline of proposals, awards, reports, and student impact metrics.
Give your donors quick access
Give donors 24/7 access to their fund balances, giving history, and grant recommendations through a secure, branded portal.
Collaborate with peer foundations
Join a community of funders to co-create engagement strategies and share insights on what drives community engagement.
Gain better financial oversight on educational programs
Access your data anytime, anywhere with confidence
Access your data from anywhere with enterprise-grade security and automatic updates that keep your foundation protected.
Financial records accessible to all stakeholders
Produce regular financial reports that offer valuable insights into spending patterns and funding effectiveness.
Track education budgets with precision
Monitor and manage your budgets and expenditures with 100% accuracy, making sure your funds are allocated appropriately.
Visualize financial and programmatic data together
Combine budget data with student achievement metrics, such as graduation rates, to assess return on investment and inform future funding strategies.
Streamline scholarship and grant applications and reviews
Build intuitive and easy-to-use grant applications
Allow applicants to leverage auto-save functionality, preview follow-up forms, and copy and paste responses with rich text formatting to save time.
Automatically import application and report data
Save time and reduce manual entry by pulling in high-volume application and reporting details.
Engage external collaborators in the review process
Facilitate collaboration among review committees, allow for shared access to applications, notes, and evaluations.
What people are saying
Our group is working on improving the clarity and transparency of our process after learning so much from our first grant cycle. We were able to distribute nearly $200,000 in our first year and are looking to increase our efforts moving forward. Thanks for helping us get started and make such a successful impact in the lives of children.”
Micheal Marz, GPD Group Employees Foundation
Choosing the right solution for your education foundation
Following our merger, we’ve combined the strengths of multiple platforms to offer a more robust and flexible suite of solutions, designed specifically for education foundations. Whether you’re focused on scholarships, grants, donor engagement, or strategic initiatives, we’re here to help you find the right fit.
Grant Management
This integration ensures that your grantmaking process is efficient, transparent, and auditable from application to impact.
- Simplify applications & reviews
- Sync grants in CommunitySuite
- Track funding with centralized data.
CommunitySuite
Advanced features designed to streamline operations across accounting, donor engagement, events, and more.
Create a unified ecosystem for managing your foundation’s impact.
- Add one of our grant management solutions
- Add one of our scholarship management solutions
Scholarship Management
This integration ensures accuracy, compliance, and continuity across the student lifecycle.
- Sync scholarship applications and awards
- Manage renewable scholarships
- Centralize financial and program data
Let’s connect to find the solution that fits your organization best.
Ready to explore our software solutions for education foundations?
Discover how our software solutions for education foundations can transform your program management processes and maximize your impact.
With powerful features customized to:
- Meet your team’s unique needs
- Save time
- Boost operational efficiency
- Improve your decision-making.
FAQs
Why is foundation management software important for education foundations?
Community foundations juggle diverse funding streams, complex endowments, and deeply personal donor relationships. This means you need tools that do it all: grants management, donor management, fundraising and event management, accounting, and scholarship management. Foundation management software empowers your organization to handle and coordinate all of these activities—all from one place—which increases transparency and bolsters efficiency.
How can foundations select the right foundation management software?
Foundations should assess their specific needs, evaluate software features and scalability, check user reviews, and ensure compatibility with existing systems. Trial periods and demos can help them determine the best fit.
What should foundations look for in foundation management software?
An education foundation should seek software that provides robust functionality for grants management, donor management, fundraising, event management, accounting, and scholarship management. It should provide strong financial tracking and compliance features to meet regulatory requirements and ensure transparency. Finally, the platform should include configurable reporting and analytics to support strategic decision-making and demonstrate impact to stakeholders.
How do foundations implement foundation management software?
Foundations must first identify their individual requirements and select a suitable platform. Next, they should integrate it with their existing tech stack, train staff, and establish protocols for data migration and ongoing support.
What are best practices for foundations using foundation management software?
Common Foundation management best practices include regularly backing up data, continually training staff, setting clear protocols, monitoring and evaluating software performance, and maintaining open communication with the software provider to receive support and stay abreast of updates.
What are common challenges foundations face with foundation management software?
Foundations must often address several key challenges to achieve effective and efficient foundation management, including data migration issues, integration difficulties, data security concerns, slow user adoption, training obstacles, and fragmented software update management.