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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 future outreach teams in the future, please keep detailed notes of interactions and update contact information as you go on the prospect spreadsheet in the aguaclara gmail account.
Two brief points about fundraising from corporations. First, identify your target with a purpose in mind, in other words find think about out why a company would want to help us support AguaClara or how they 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 answering these questions will 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 can be downloaded on the outreach resources pagelink below. Of course, clear any company with Prof. Weber-Shirk prior to initiating contact. 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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