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Materials Available from Past Workshops
Materials from these past workshop are available:
The Power of Strategic Prospecting:Tools for Strategic Prospecting. Dig deeper into a funder’s past giving, geographic focus, values, openness to new grantees, typical grant sizes, key contacts and relationships, and nuanced language.
Small Family Foundations are defined as giving less than $2M, annually. The Workshop delivered information and insight on Small Family Foundations that fund in MN: What they are funding. What they want from you, and how to approach them – first steps, strategies, and building relationships.
Is the Grant Worth Going For? & What do Funders Want to Know?
• How do you decide what grants are worth your time?
• Six steps to finding the true costs of programs
• How to approach funders for collaborative grants
• Have these documents ready when that grant opportunity appears
• Track the right numbers for nonprofit success
• Metrics that cut through the noise and stabilize fundraising
• Differentiate your ask
• A graphic “Wheel of fundraising success”
Tips on Reaching Corporate Funders
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Funds take a unique approach. Two experts look at how to customize your message to reach them.
Advice for Funders
Equitable Grantmaking Assessment Guide
Vu Le (of “Crappy Fundraising Practices”) teamed up with RVC, an organization he founded in Seattle to promote social justice, to create “Making Philanthropy More Equitable: Introducing the Equitable Grantmaking Continuum.” It outlines funding practices ranging from the most equitable to the most inequitable. The tool can be used by funders to assess their funding and grantmaking processes, and to clearly identify steps they can take to improve them.