Course Description

For grantseekers who want to develop their skills and maximize effifiency in funding research.

Using a strategic approach to funding research, in this special day-in-a-half course you'll find funders with a proven commitment to programs and projects like yours.  This course shows the many ways to find comprehensive, accurate, and timely information on prospective funders with the nation's premier grantseeking tool, Foundation Directory Online Professional.

Benifits

- Translate your organization's needs into fundraising research strategies

- Become proficient in searching the four Professional databases

- Find prospects who have supported organizations or programs similar to yours

- Save, print, and e-mail your search results

Topics

- Understand what motivates each funder type and how to approach them

- Resources that will help you learn about grantmakers and their recent activities

- The functions of each search field and effective search strategies

- Getting the most from the companies database; subsidiaries, 10-k forms

- Keyword-search strategies, including searching across the entire 990 database

- Evaluating prospects to find the best fit for funding needs

- Tagging grantmaker and company profiles to group porspects by your own definition

- Using the 'Update Generator' to see recent, significant changes to the grantmaker database

Bonuses

- Applicable for nine CFRETM International points for initial or re-certification

- Complimentary one-month subscription to Foundation Directory Online Professional (a $179.95 value)

- Workbook outlining all course topics

When: Monday, February 22, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday, February 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Foundation Center, 1422 Euclid Ave, Suite 1600, Cleveland, Ohio