First step: Figure out what you want to do, and find a partner (a foundation, a corporate giving program, a government grant program) who has the resources and shares your interests.
1) Prospecting III: Develop your research strategy.
a) Write a short statement explaining whether you will use a subject, geographic, or types of support approach, or some combination of the three.
b) Provide a list of the search strategies (and keywords) that you used, and the number of initial hits you developed before you refined your list.
c) Find
at least 3 really good foundation matches and develop a “Prospect
Worksheet” (p. 42 in Foundation
Fundamentals) for each one. In
addition to the
d) Find at least one good government match and develop a “Prospect Worksheet” for that one.
e) Find at least one good corporate match, and develop a “Prospect Worksheet” for that one.
f) Post these five worksheets to the D2L Discussion Board under “Prospecting for Funds.”
© 2005 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 5 January 2011