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Below you will find a summary of our fundraising efforts in each of the areas of concentration. You will also find an explanation of Microfinance as well as the benefits it may hold for AguaClara.

Corporate Fundraising

Starting Fall 2009, corporate fundraising will be a new area of focus for the outreach team.  An initial list of prospective companies have been compiled and stored in the "outreach" docs section in the aguaclara gmail account.  This spreadsheet will help record and monitor our progress.  To avoid redundancy and make the process more seamless for subsequent outreach teams in the future, please keep detailed notes of interactions and update contact information as you go.

Two brief points about fundraising from corporations.  First, identify your target with a purpose in mind, in other words find out why a company would want to help us or might benefit from helping us.  You could randomly pick out some fortune 500 companies, but spending some time researching and thinking about the former point could help you be more effective.  Second, fundraising is about developing relationships.  Sending a letter, is simply the beginning.  Most of the work is in the follow up, which can be a slow, arduous and even frustrating process.  A small ppt on corporate fundraising tips will be on the outreach resources page.  Good luck.

Grants

As members of such a unique organization, we must look into a wider gamut of grants. We look for grants that we can tailor to any of the many facets of the project. For our current efforts in creating a series of generic grants for future use please look at the Grant Text Modules under the Grants webpage.

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* "Honduras | Grameen Foundation : Where we work : Latin America / Caribbean." Grameen Foundation - Fighting poverty with microfinance. 06 May 2009 <http://www.grameenfoundation.org/where_we_work/latin_america_caribbean/honduras/^{Image Removed}>.