Thanks for your interest in creating an Emergency Financial Assistance Program on your campus. These small grants can truly be life-changing, allowing students to finish their degrees despite financial setbacks. This assessment will help determine your college's readiness for offering such a program.

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* 1. First, we need your email address so we can follow up with you.

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* 2. Let us know a little bit about you and your school.

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* 3. Your Job Title:

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* 4. How did you hear about Dreamkeepers?

To get started with the Dreamkeepers program, please complete the following assessment. One of our expert consultants will contact you soon to talk over the results.

For each of the program areas (administration, foundation/advancement, marketing/communications and impact), rate your college from 1-5, with 1 being the least strong/competent/reflective of your school and 5 being the most strong/competent/reflective of your school. 

Please keep track of your subtotal in each section -- you'll need to add them together at the end!

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* 5. Administration, Part 1: The College Leadership

  Rate from 1-5
Established a strong presence and focus on student support services
Strategic plan focuses on persistence and completion
Holistic approach to students – values students and understands their challenges
Departments work together – united and collaborative
Strong support for data collection and analysis

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* 6. Administration, Part 2: Student Services/Student Affairs/Counseling

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Staff available to meet with students and process applications quickly
Ability to connect students to other resources
Serves as a hub to help students with ability to connect them to additional benefits/resources at the campus, local, state and national level
Integrated within the entire institution opening the channel of communication among departments and staff

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* 7. Administration, Part 3: Business Office/Foundation/Payments Processors

  Rate from 1-5
Ability to process checks within 1-2 business days for extreme emergencies
Flexible in the approach to processing and issuing payments

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* 8. Now, add the numbers in this section to get a subtotal between 11-55:

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* 9. Fundraising & Marketing, Part 1: Foundation/Advancement

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Board support
Ability to articulate and market the program need and impact
Adopt the program as a permanent program and agree to continue with ongoing fundraising
Strong fundraising plan with history of successful attainment of fundraising goals
Diversified fundraising portfolio

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* 10. Fundraising & Marketing, Part 2: Marketing/Communications

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Develop collateral materials for program constituents – students, faculty and staff, donors, leadership, community and media
PR concentrated around program success and ongoing need for support

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* 11. Now, add the numbers in this section to get a subtotal between 7-35:

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* 12. Impact

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Track student persistence/retention
Strong focus on comparison data, research and analysis
Makes institutional data publicly available

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* 13. Now, add the numbers in this section to get a subtotal between 3-15:

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* 14. Finally, add your subtotals from Questions 8, 11 and 13 to get a total between 21 and 105:

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