Fundraising strategy

We will divide our fundraising efforts into three categories. Outreach as it relates to fundraising includes placing information about AguaClara in places where potential donors can see it such as with the Cornell Annual Fund. Contacts means actively exploring personal and professional relationships to help us find potential donors. Grant applications and direct solicitations includes the actual requests for money. This step epitomizes the phrase "one who does not cry gets no milk." We need to raise money for construction of plants in Honduras, research and design work at Cornell and to send AguaClara engineers to Honduras to help train and educate Hondurans on water treatment processes.

Outreach:  

The Cornell Annual Fund plans on including information about AguaClara in their mailings and hopefully we can get a link about AguaClara on the Cornell Fund website. Other ideas for outreach for fundraising purposes includes posters on campus and continued contact with previous donors.

Contacts: 

We should continue to actively explore personal and professional contacts as ways of gaining information about potential funding sources. We should makes contacts with the Honduran and possibly other Central American embassies in Washington D.C. We should also meet with the USAID mission and U.S. Embassy in Honduras to explore possibilities.

We will specifically look for Cornell alum working for foundations and other potential donors.

We will schedule meetings with people at Cornell ranging from professors who may have contacts at donor agencies to people who work in alumni development to obtain advice and ideas related to outreach and development. 

Grants:

We will assemble a database of potential grants using the foundation directory which can be found at  *http://fconline.fdncenter.org/welcome.php?fpc=          *

We will look for grants with applications that may be appropriate for AguaClara especially focusing on grants that may be similar to each other so that we can write one grant application and use it multiple times.  

We will explore grants from the Global Development Alliance through USAID for potential sources of advice and funding.