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Scholarship Portfolio Pulse-Check | Sector Intelligence 2026

We appreciate your taking 15 minutes to share your perspective. Our goal for this listening tour is two-fold:

  1. Benchmarking: Aggregating how peers are handling the shift from back-office tasks to board-level strategic risks.

  2. Navigating Complexity: Helping leaders solve the conflict between maintaining hundreds of fragmented funds and the reality of ballooning operational costs.

We’ve found that many portfolios have become unintentionally risk-prone and non-strategic—where the sheer volume of legacy funds makes it impossible for staff to maintain strict regulatory compliance or meaningful student impact.

As a brief context-setting for our call, you may find these resources relevant to the sustainability challenges we’ll be discussing:

[Case Study] Modernizing the Community Foundation Portfolio

A look at how Austin Community Foundation updated their scholarship operations to reduce administrative drag and mitigate fiduciary risk.

[Resource] The 2026 Scholarship Program Health Checklist

A 5-minute diagnostic tool we’ve been using with leadership teams to identify hidden liabilities and inefficiencies that drain time, energy, and resources.