The COVID-19 Funding system field is designed to allow consistent tracking of funding trends across the sector in response to COVID-19. The use of this field is voluntary and opt-in, as data collected via this field will be shared and aggregated. By filling out this field for a request, the full amount awarded for that request will be included in the Foundant COVID-19 funding report.
The field contains a dropdown of list items developed using Candid's Support Strategies taxonomy, giving you the ability to code any requests that received funding related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Below are the list items in the dropdown:
- Capacity-building
- Technical assistance
- Capital and infrastructure
- Continuing support
- Equal access
- Financial sustainability
- General support
- Individual development
- Leadership and professional development
- Outreach
- Policy, advocacy and systems reform
- Presentations and productions
- Product and service development
- Program support
- Regranting
- Research and evaluation
- Recordings
- Emergency Funds
- Emergency Funds - Individual
- Health services (including mental health)
- Assistance with accessing benefits
You also have the option of sharing this field to a follow up form so the grantee can complete or view it, and an administrator could complete it retroactively on the approval form as well. For instructions on indicating that some or all of an award has been reallocated for COVID-19 relief, please refer to Reallocating Funds for COVID-19 Relief Efforts.
If you sync grants to individuals from Scholarship Lifecycle Manager (SLM) to CommunitySuite, the requests will be synced as scholarships in CommunitySuite. The ability to sync those requests as grants is in development at this time.
Add COVID-19 Approval Form Field
To add this field to an approval form, follow the steps below.
- Click Tools, then select Process Manager.
- Click the Name of the process.
- Click the Decisions tab.
- Click the pencil icon next to the approval form.
- Click Add New Question.
- Click COVID-19 Funding.
- Read the pop-up message, and if you want to continue, click I Accept.
- If you don't want to continue, click Cancel.
- Edit the field if needed, then click Save Question.
The field can now be used when approving requests. If needed, you can go back to any previously approved requests in the process to fill out this field.