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Grant Lifecycle Manager, known as GLM, is a versatile software solution that has transformed the grant and scholarship processes for …
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What is Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager?
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.
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Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM)
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What is Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager?
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) is designed to manage the entire grantmaking process in one secure, easy-to-use solution, to free up users so that they can pursue their missions. It includes unlimited users, including applicants, reviewers, grant recipients, staff, and board members, can access the system anytime, anywhere. Built to be user configurable—GLM’s grantmaking helps users meet the unique needs of their grantees.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, Canada, Australia |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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.
Submittable, SmartSimple Cloud for Grants Management (GMS360), and WizeHive Zengine are common alternatives for Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager.
The most common users of Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Grant Lifecycle Manager, known as GLM, is a versatile software solution that has transformed the grant and scholarship processes for various organizations. Users have found GLM to be incredibly helpful in streamlining their workflows and eliminating the need for paper-based systems. The Executive Director of the Luther I. Replogle Foundation, along with board members, has seamlessly transitioned to GLM for accepting applications and assigning evaluators, significantly improving efficiency and reducing administrative burdens.
GLM has also been adopted by the grants department at United Arts of Central Florida as their primary grants management tool. It simplifies the entire application and decision-making process, as well as outcome reporting, accounting, and organizational reporting. By centralizing all applicant and grantee interactions, GLM helps keep the organization organized and provides a single hub for managing external organizational granting, internal grants, and nominations for awards/recognition lists.
The family foundation fully utilizes GLM for various aspects of their grantmaking, including letters of inquiry, grant applications, grant reports, and customized reports. Grantees highly appreciate this online platform for its ease of access, user-friendly interface, and the ability to save work in progress. By using GLM, they have seen a remarkable improvement in their efficiency while reducing paper waste.
Eastern Bank also relies on GLM for online processing of all community support initiatives such as grant programs and Bank-sponsored events. Additionally, it serves as a vital tool for their scholarship program, allowing students to apply online while reviewers can conveniently review applications through the platform. With GLM's intuitive technology, sorting capabilities, real-time data manipulation, and export functions facilitate seamless collaboration within the team.
The Grant Lifecycle Manager has proven to be an invaluable resource for many organizations in streamlining their grantmaking processes from start to finish. Its intuitive interface allows for easy organization of LOIs, tracking outcomes, and generating insightful reports. Users appreciate Foundant's excellent responsiveness and support throughout their experience with GLM, which has made it a highly recommended tool for enhancing the grantmaking process in the philanthropic space.
Simple Navigation: Users consistently praise the system for its simple and intuitive navigation. This makes it easy for administrators, applicants, and evaluators to access the software seamlessly across all platforms and devices.
Smooth System Updates: Reviewers appreciate that thoughtful system updates are implemented without causing any disruption to their experience. These updates ensure the smooth operation of the software while keeping users up-to-date with new features and improvements.
Efficient Information Retrieval: Many users highly value the ability to easily search for and retrieve information about grants or requests from previous years. This feature saves them valuable time and effort by eliminating the need to manually sift through old records.
Some users have found the process for third-party responses to be cumbersome. They mention that there are multiple emails to deal with in order to find the correct link to upload necessary documents, making it a time-consuming and inefficient process.
Users feel that customized reports could be improved. They believe that the fault lies with themselves for not thinking analytically enough to craft concise reports, indicating a desire for more flexibility and customization options in generating reports.
The absence of CRM functionality has been noted by some users as a limitation. They would like a built-in customer relationship management system to manage contacts and associated emails more effectively.
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- 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.
October 18, 2018
We love Grant Lifecycle Manager
- Less of my time spent reviewing and organizing applications
- Easy accessibility for reviewers/applicants
- frees up more time
October 16, 2018
Say Yes to Foundant - You Won't Regret it!
- Less time and labor working on grant cycles
- Ability to focus on what's important in grantmaking
- Reporting is amazing - really helps our organization think strategically about our impact
October 16, 2018
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager works for us!
- It absolutely has brought our grant making into the 21st century. Previously we only took grant applications via paper forms- having a system where we can have applicants submit online, and reviewers from all over the country review the applications online, saves us so much time.
October 16, 2018
Grateful we made the switch to Grants Lifecycle Management
- It's helped us gain efficiencies.
- We've stabilized the cost of our data management. The pricing structure provides better value than competitors that seemed to nickel and dime us.
July 29, 2018
Still having fun and, GLM, you're still the one
- Grant Lifecycle Manager has only a positive impact on our overall business objectives. This software package is all we use to manage grants. I work part-time, and this software allows me to get ALL the necessary work done to manage the work of the Foundation. The software has become so efficient in the last couple of years, that I now have time to do special projects as requested by the Board of Directors. I have conducted a survey of our grantees about the issues of capacity building within their own organizations and on the question of professional development. I have led workshops for our grantees on how to use GuideStar, a non-profit database that provides data on organizations all across the nation. The GLM software allows me to prepare for the twice-yearly Board Meetings with a minimum of stress and no confusion.
April 17, 2017
Makes Life Easier for Grants Managers!
- This software has made it much easier to work with reviewers (panels of community volunteers who provide scores and comments for the grant applications). While we only use the Evaluator function for two of our many grant programs, the merge templates have saved a lot of time in assembling the materials to send digitally (one PDF per application) for the other grant programs. In our old database, I had to download each document from the application, convert to PDF, then combine. That was very labor intensive! In this software, I create a merge template and all the documents that I want included are automatically converted to PDF, in the order I want them. This was a big reason we moved to this software and it continues to be a fantastic feature.
- The automatic email reminders that have been built into the software (this is one example of an excellent improvement that has been added since we got the software - showing their constant efforts to get even better) have saved a lot of time and effort. I used to set reminders on my calendar every year to write a long involved email to all the grantees for a particular grant program, to remind them to submit their grant reports. And then, if they still forgot, I had to chase them down. Now, I just set up the reports in the software and there is an automatic reminder that goes out two weeks before; if they still forget, there is an automatic reminder that goes out one day after the deadline to let them know that it's late. I still have to chase a few of them down but the majority are taken care of.
January 08, 2016
Grant Lifecycle Manager is a Grant Life Saver
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- I only see a positive return on investment with GLM. Rather than spending two full days copying and collating grant applications, letters of inquiry and grant reports for our board docket, it now takes me about 5 minutes to make these visible in GLM for my board so they can log on and review everything there. It has re-energized my grantmaking because my time is now freed up to do the valuable work, rather than the out-of-date mundane copying task - to say nothing of the amount of paper saved and the funds saved on express mailings.
December 23, 2015
Sally Weldon's review of Grant Lifecycle Manager
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Reduction in paper, copy machine maintenance and postage
- Seen by peers and community as being up to date with technology
- Better view of the entire program department's work
December 11, 2015
GLM is the best partner in the industry
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We could not handle the volume of grants we are processing without GLM
- It allows us to view the status of all requests in real time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Increased efficiency with pre-reviewing applications
- Far better customer service, as we have had far fewer disgruntled users
- Easier to collect necessary data through robust reporting platform
July 14, 2015
Great product!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Increased employee efficiency (do not have to spend a lot time chasing down grant agreements or outcome reports)
- Shortened notification and payment time
- Improved customer service/transparency - grant partners able to access their grant documents, view payments, reports, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Increased efficiency