foundations to decide who to approach? Or do you use a dartboard? Trying to figure out whom to approach for needed grants can be a bewildering and often largely fruitless experience, leaving lots of grant money on the table.
Resolving your confusion and frustrations
Maybe you’re considering subscribing to a service that emails you about upcoming grants or gives you access to basic foundation information. That still leaves a lot of work on your shoulders and does not give you the specific guidance you need for your unique organization.
We have worked hard to develop the technological capacity to resolve your confusion and frustrations, create specific and informed strategies for grant pursuit, and allow you to redirect your energies to other critical organizational tasks – including all other aspect of fund development.
Our proprietary data management system, FunderFit, is an indispensable technological partner to us in achieving this objective. FunderFit can sift through the tens of thousands of foundations throughout the country to match your organization with the national, regional, and local foundations that fund organizations like yours and will fund in your geographic area.
FunderFit Elements
FunderFit is populated with continuously up-dated information about each foundation that includes:
- Key contact, mailing address, phone number, email, and website address
- Mission and specific areas of interest or types of organizations the foundation funds
- Types of support provided
- Limitations regarding geographic location and exclusions of organization type or focus of funding
- Preferred initial approach
- Funding guidelines
- Specific application format and content requirements
- Required attachments
- Links to on-line application site and required application forms
- History of organizations funded in the past several years and the amount of each grant
- Application deadlines
- Names of foundation Trustees
- Frequency and date of Board meetings
- Nuanced information that informs funding pursuit strategy for each foundation
FunderFitTM
What can FunderFit do?
The FunderFit database includes current listings of all national, regional and local foundations that fund non-profit organizations in North Texas, and is expandable to any location in the country.
FunderFit offers powerful capacities for supporting foundation grant funding. While other services may provide a list of potential funders, Community Service Builders and FunderFit have the power to do much more.
- FunderFit’s sophisticated process matches a non-profit organization with funders whose mission and funding interests “fit” the mission and funding needs of the non-profit. But that’s just the beginning.
- FunderFit supports the customized construction of a comprehensive annual grant pursuit strategy for each unique non-profit organization.
- FunderFit’s analytic capacity guides us as we prioritize your matching foundations based on degree of fit with your mission, funding probability and your funding need.
- And it allows us to create an individualized plan for each potential funder, including the optimal request amount and specific approach.
- Once the content for routine grant applications of varying lengths is developed and approved, FunderFit efficiently produces high quality printed applications, letters and all required attachments for each foundation, ready for signature and mailing
- FunderFit’s efficiency with routine applications facilitates our ability to focus on those non-routine applications that require very individualized preparation and customized message construction, tailored to the particular foundation.
- FunderFit also captures all data regarding grant pursuit activity and produces reports for organization and CSB staff to assist in progress analysis and ongoing planning.
Contact us now to discuss how CSB can utilize the powerful features of our trademarked FunderFit database to provide a time-specific consultation or ongoing services to support your fund development.
Are you poring over lists of foundations trying to find the right ones for your organization? Do you simply rely on your intuition or what you have heard about local
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