Pursue
Your prospects lists have been finalized and now it is time to contact your potential donor. Remember that you are giving the prospect an opportunity to get to know your worthy project and help make a difference in their community by supporting it.
Fundraisers learn from one another. Use the following links to join fundraising listservs, read articles about fundraising, and to learn about the best way to acquire funding for your projects.
- PRSPCT – L http://listserv.apra-prspct-l.org/wa.exe?A0=prspct-l
- Donor Search http://listserv.charitychannel.com/collaborate/wa.exe?A0=donorresearch-l
- APRA International http://www.aprahome.org/
- APRA Greater Houston http://www.apragreaterhouston.org/
- CASE (Council for Advancement of Support of Education) http://www.case.org
- Association for Healthcare Philanthropy http://www.ahp.org/Pages/Home.aspx
- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS’T) http://www.asis.org/
Once you have made a good connection between your project and your prospect, it will be time to pursue your communication with the prospect. This section will help you communicate succinctly and successfully.
- Foundation Center’s Request for Proposals (RFP) – http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
- Foundation Center – provides free information on foundations and writing successful grants to them. http://foundationcenter.org/
- Charity Channel – http://www.charitychannel.com/
- Charity Channel – grants blog http://www.charitychannel.com/Special/DonGriesmannsGrantOpportunities/Blog/tabid/414/Default.aspx
- Non-Profit Times – http://www.nptgrantsearch.com/
- Grantwriter’s Network of Greater Houston provides a venue for area fund developers, grant writers and nonprofit executives to network, share ideas and collaborate. – http://www.grantwritershouston.org/
- Rice University RFP – http://www.giving.rice.edu/giving/GrantOpportunities.asp?SnID=161622767
- Grant Proposal.com offers guidance on writing and applying for grants – http://www.grantproposal.com/
- Strunk & White, the bible of concise writing – http://www.bartleby.com/141/
- WordNet from Princeton – http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- From the website: "WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept."
- National Center for Charitable Statistics – http://www.nccs.urban.org/
- From the website: "The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States."
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