Corporate and Foundation Stewardship

Lynne M. Wester@donorguru

Corporate and Foundation Donors Road Map

• –Needs •Individuality •Brand Recognition •Fiscal Responsibility • Challenges

Why ask Why?

• What percentage of your gifts come from Corps and Founds?

•How much does this total per year? •How much of your donor relations efforts are geared or include CFR? •Is it proportional?

Ideas for Implementation: Foundations

• Partner with your CFR team (if you have one) To coordinate:

• Impact Reporting• Frontline Contacts• Experiences

• Send your foundation program officer a copy of related publications, papers, press releases, or copies of press coverage.

• Invite foundation officers to your events, particularly those related to the grant.

Ideas for Implementation: Corporations

• Always write acknowledgments to not only the grant maker but also hand written notes to your contact at the corporation.

• Invite corps and founds into your giving societies, especially cumulative ones.

• Offer real impact of their giving. • Provide them unique access opportunities.

• Corporations embrace innovation and technology at in far more rapid and encompassing way than we do.

• Finally, remember that corps and founds are made up of individual people.

No Original Ideas Here:

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