FUNDRAISING

Grant Writing

Grants can be an essential way to build your organization’s ongoing capacity or to fund projects that are key to fulfilling your organization’s mission.

  1. Assess programs for funding potential from private foundation/government grants, individuals and/or corporations.

    • Research grants that are a good fit

    • Develop relationships with funders

  2. Analyze and improve messaging for communicating what is special and effective about program.

    • Structure budgetary information that is clear and accessible, providing the funder with the needed transparency around finances.

    • Develop effective supporting materials

Individual Donor Program

At the center of every successful individual donor program are relationships, building a community of supporters.

  • Developing individual donor programs and campaigns

  • Assessing and stewarding current donors and creating pipelines for and prospecting new donors

  • Individual donor requests—assessing giving level based on financial capacity, inclination to be generous, connection to organization—readiness.

Corporate Sponsorship Program

Developing programs that serve corporations while building support and engagement for an organization’s programming.

  • Review of programming for appeal to corporate sponsors, messaging for corporate sponsorship packet

  • Alignment of programming with corporate sponsors

  • Assessing potential connections to corporate sponsors among current audience, students, supporters, and the field

  • Leverage our familiarity with Silicon Valley corporations to develop funding programs that appeal to those working in the high-tech field.