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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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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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We use Grant Lifecycle Manager to track grant applications and reports. It is being used by the Program side of our organization. We use this system as our online application portal for applicants to submit grant requests. [W]e track all of [the] grant activity in the system. [For example, we track] [...] check numbers and any reports received from the grantees.
October 18, 2018
We love Grant Lifecycle Manager
It is being used for our scholarship program. I create the scholarship applications online and students apply through the portal. Reviewers then also review the applications through the Grant Lifecycle Manager and we use it to merge the winners to another Foundant product - Csuite.
October 16, 2018
Say Yes to Foundant - You Won't Regret it!
We currently utilize Foundant GLM to manage all of our grantmaking across the foundation. We are a small staff of 5 so I am the only staff who utilizes GLM for grants however we also have GLM for scholarships that is used by our scholarship/program officer.
GLM has simplified and streamlined our grantmaking process across the board. We were looking for a solution to address the mounds of wasted paper we used along with helping both our grantees and reviewers with a more efficient and user-friendly process - Foundant GLM provided that solution.
GLM has simplified and streamlined our grantmaking process across the board. We were looking for a solution to address the mounds of wasted paper we used along with helping both our grantees and reviewers with a more efficient and user-friendly process - Foundant GLM provided that solution.
October 16, 2018
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager works for us!
We primarily use Foundant to track and manage our external organizational granting with the Grants department. We have used it a bit more widely across the organization for other projects: internal grants and collecting/organizing nominations for awards/recognition lists
October 16, 2018
Grateful we made the switch to Grants Lifecycle Management
It's being used across our entire organization as the platform for our grant-making needs. Phases are encompassed in the GLM are: Letters of Interest/Application/Feedback and Evaluation/Selection/Electronic Agreement/Progress Monitoring/Payment/Correspondence. It helps to keep us organized by creating a single spot for our applicant/grantee application/grant agreement interactions.
July 29, 2018
Still having fun and, GLM, you're still the one
I am the Executive Director of the Luther I. Replogle Foundation. I am the only employee of the Foundation, I work part-time, and I report to a Board of six Directors. The Foundation has an endowment of $11.7 million and we distribute about $500,000 in grants to non-profits. The Foundation follows several guidelines to make decisions as to how to allocate the grants. We use Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) for ALL of the grant management. I am the primary user of the licensed software, however, my Board members use it periodically to rate the grant requests before their Board Meetings. One significant problem that is addresses is that grant requests can be tracked, and paperwork and recordkeeping does not get stalled on my desk in hard copy. Requests enter the system through the Foundation's website on GLM, I review the Letters of Inquiry and Applications on line, I respond to all the LOIs and Applications on line (through email set up through GLM), I can see all the records of past grants, including historic grants pre-dating 2010 when we started using GLM. I do almost all the work of the Replogle Foundation using GLM.
April 17, 2017
Makes Life Easier for Grants Managers!
The grants department at United Arts of Central Florida uses Foundant's Grant Lifecycle Manager to manage multiple grant programs funding arts and cultural activities in a four-county region. We are able to design our own grant forms, accept applications, collect contracts and reports, and track payments.
January 08, 2016
Grant Lifecycle Manager is a Grant Life Saver
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
The family foundation I work for uses Foundant's Grant Lifecycle Manager product for all aspects of their grantmaking - letters of inquiry, grant applications, grant reports, tracking payments of grants, evaluation of grant applications, as well as producing customized reports. Our entire organization uses it - staff, executive directors, grantees and our board of directors. We have been told by many grantees that this is the best online software they use - is it easy to access, understand and you can save your work as you go, rather than having to submit something in one sitting.
December 23, 2015
Sally Weldon's review of Grant Lifecycle Manager
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
The programs department at the foundation uses Grant Lifecycle Manager to accept all applications, evaluations and award/deny processing for the 11 grant programs and 50 scholarship programs. We needed a greener office. Our grants and scholarship processes that were at one time heavily dependent on reams of paper, are now virtually paperless. We had a cumbersome workflow. Now administrators of the system effortlessly accept applications and assign evaluators from the same system.
December 11, 2015
GLM is the best partner in the industry
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I oversee the charitable arm of Eastern Bank. We use GLM for online processing of all community support. Included is a variety of grant programs as well as Bank sponsored events.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using it for the grant applications we receive. We involve community volunteers who review and score the applications. The software is used internally among three program staff members. We plan to use the system for all of our grantee reporting.
July 14, 2015
Great product!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Grant Lifecycle Manager for as our primary grants management tool. Grant Lifecycle Manager streamlines the application and decision making process, outcome reporting, some accounting, and organizational reporting. The majority of our staff has some interface with the software.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We have used the Grant Lifecycle Manager for over two years now, and have found the technology to be extremely intuitive and user friendly. It has helped us organize our grantmaking process, from streamlining LOIs, and reviewing and organizing grant proposals, to recording and tracking outcomes. Being able to sort, manipulate, and export data has also made it easy to share information with our team in real-time. Most importantly, the Foundant team is always highly responsive and great to work with. We would highly recommend Foundant and their Grant Lifecycle Manager technology to anyone in the philanthropic space who seeks an effective tool for elevating their grantmaking process.