Engaging Mission-Aligned Funders | Advancement Outreach Best Practices

Connecting and building relationships with new funders can be a challenge. It requires courage, patience, and professional perseverance. You are likely concerned that COVID-19, and the cancellation of the Skoll World Forum, could affect your fundraising success for 2020 and beyond.

Join us for this session on advancement outreach, strengthening current grantor relationships, and cultivating new funding relationships. Advancement Specialists Toby Banks, Karen Doyle Grossman, Kelly Baxter Spitz, and Kellyn Lovell from Black Fox Philanthropy, a Certified B Corp, will share best practices for advancing relationships with funders, including in the era of COVID-19. We will also address common challenges when approaching prospective funders, such as:

• How to approach funders who don’t accept unsolicited proposals.
• How to approach funders with whom you have no “warm” introduction.
• What to do when you see huge mission alignment with a funder but there is one key requirement you don’t meet.

As part of our commitment to you and your future fundraising success, we designed this session to help you navigate these (and other) challenges. To help you address your specific pain points, we will conclude with an open Q&A.

Black Fox Philanthropy is a leading fundraising firm serving international NGOs and domestic nonprofits. As a B Corp social enterprise, our mission is to help worthy organizations attract significant and sustainable funding so they can effect deep and lasting social change.

TIME & LOCATION

Time

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Mountain Time, Thursday, April 2, 2020

(2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Eastern Time / 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM, Pacific Time)

Location

Virtual

Register for Part 1 of 2: Funder Research | Best Practices in Uncovering Mission-Aligned Funders presented by Research Experts at Black Fox Philanthropy on Tuesday, March 31st.