Helping a New Organization Fundraise
- Serve as a “reference.” Being available to talk to potential funders can help open doors for a new organization.
- Host or participate at events where other grantmakers can learn about your grantee’s work and meet its leaders. One grantmaker in health care. Often nominates someone from a start-up she supported to be a presenter, or offers to include the organization’s work in her own presentation, if there will be potential funders in the audience.
- Offer incentives to fundraise. Several contributors talked about grant policies that encourage organizations to involve other funders.
Takeaways are critical, bite-sized resources either excerpted from our guides or written by Candid Learning for Funders using the guide's research data or themes post-publication. Attribution is given if the takeaway is a quotation.
This takeaway was derived from Working with Start-Ups.
