Bright Funds vs. Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bright Funds
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Bright Funds, headquartered in Oakland, helps companies of all sizes multiply their impact through their eponymous corporate social responsibility platform. For nearly a decade, Bright Funds has been connecting people to purpose with their employee giving, volunteering and grants management solution.N/A
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Score 6.0 out of 10
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With Foundant GLM, users can create, launch and receive online applications and grant reports, manage online proposal reviews, and manage grants and information from a single, integrated solution from anywhere they have internet access.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe standard cost for Bright Funds is just $2 per employee month on a monthly or annual subscription.
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Blackbaud Grantmaking
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Enterprises

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User Ratings
Bright FundsFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(2 ratings)
3.0
(13 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bright FundsFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Bright Funds
If any organisation is looking for a good platform for the corporate social responsibility I think bright fund is one of the good Platform for this. Organizations can trust on this as they are in to all types of work where India needs to get improved like they are helping the children's for education and giving opportunity to learn and Excel in their career also they are making it possible with the Government of States to empower the women's in the rural part they are helping a people in the health care sectors and also rescuing the children's from child labours prostitutions human trafficking etc
No kid is hungry policy is also very good to acknowledge.
Providing a clean and hygienic water in the rural part also supporting The Peoples in response to covid 19 and also
In other way that impacting the lives of humans and children's in country
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Foundant Technologies
From where I stand, GLM is well-suited for use by small-staffed charitable foundations who make more than thirty (30) grants a year and distribute more than $500,000 in funds to non-profits. The software is able to handle every step in the grant-making process from receipt of a request, to the evaluation and decision regarding the grant, to tracking the pay-out, and to closing the grant when the work or the year is completed.
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Pros
Bright Funds
  • Low cost and transparent pricing
  • Real time Reporting
  • Automatic matching and disbursement of donations
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Foundant Technologies
  • Foundant provides a streamlined grants management solution for reasonable cost.
  • The company listens to its users, collecting ideas and making improvements. Updates to the software are rolled out several times a year. When something cannot be changed right away, the company gives context and forecasts when the change might be possible.
  • While the software is easy to use, it also offers more advanced features (such as merge templates) that allow more customization for the advanced user.
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Cons
Bright Funds
  • Can also focus on plantation at mass scale
  • Should work aggressively on Healthcare sector
  • Can knowledge the people with government facilities as many peopdont dont know what government is providing to their class
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Foundant Technologies
  • Need a smother process for third party responses. Currently individuals recommending more than one student for scholarships have many emails to deal with to find the correct link to upload the correct student's letter.
  • Questions that would filter which applications the applicant would apply for.
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Alternatives Considered
Bright Funds
According to me Bright Funds is the most approved software for the social responsibility services to the world. Because it is one in all platform for the employees donations and volunteering. Again it costs low and transparent pricing which gives the best trustworthiness
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Foundant Technologies
I have not used other online grantmaking products or evaluated others. I used to use MicroEdge Gifts, but not the online application version. It was a stand alone management system. This is hands-down better, easier to use and a more complete system
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Return on Investment
Bright Funds
  • Provides a satisfaction that donation is getting utilized for good cause
  • Claims the donation under income tax
  • Working in evey sector where improvements are needed
  • Working with government to achieve this in good ways
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Foundant Technologies
  • Positive customer service--fairly easy to use for applicants.
  • Positive--easy to run reports you have already set up, so [it] saves time.
  • Negative--limited question types makes it harder to gather the data we want to track.
  • Negative--our budget is more complex than can be tracked in Foundant, so we have to use a separate program.
  • Negative--we have to track potential grantee conversations in a separate program.
  • Negative--getting data ready to display in a dashboard takes a lot of time to manipulate in Excel.
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