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Workshop on Introducing Your Organization to Funders

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May 14, 2024 1:30-2:30 PM LIVE VIRTUAL

Cost: $45 | Register Below
For more information, contact Mary Anne ([email protected])

Many foundations, especially family foundations, do not have a formal application process and can seem out of reach. Join us to learn how to introduce your organization to new funders in a way that captures their attention.

Topics

  • Is the funder a fit for your organization?
  • When should you send a Letter of Introduction (LOI) vs. a full application, call, or some other outreach method.
  • How to draft an LOI, best practices, helpful tips, things to avoid, tools to help with the writing.
  • Next steps…you’ve submitted your LOI, so now what? Immediate and longer-term next steps to connect with program officers and decision-makers.
  • Q&A

For: New fundraisers and those looking to freshen their LOIs.

Presenters:

Kirsten Gulbro Senior Grant WriterKirsten Gulbro
Access Philanthropy Senior Grant Writer

Kirsten has 20 years of fundraising experience, raising more than $100 million for Minnesota’s nonprofit community. Her expertise includes grant writing, corporate sponsorships, major gifts, special events, nonprofit communications, and prospect research.

Ann Madsen, Senior Grant WriterAnn Madsen
Access Philanthropy Senior Grant Writer

Ann has worked in both international and domestic contexts and has experience developing proposals in humanitarian aid, international development, health, and human services.

FREE information on grant makers

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Cause IQ’s is a subscription-based database built for consultants, accountants, and IT firms to find and market to nonprofits. A Cause IQ profile shows Program areas, Funding, Grantmaking, Financials, and Personnel. With the free account, it’s mostly 990 data but MUCH easier to read than the tax form.

Here’s some of what’s in a search with a free account:

First, create a free account. When logged in, you get a Dashboard with a search box.

  • Type in the name of a funder, or, keywords, like “Minnesota Foundations” – that gives you a list of 2,880 organizations, each with a profile.
  • Under “Advanced Search” you see how many are Private foundations, Corporate foundations, etc.
  • Filter on any of these Types, and/or Revenue, and/or City
  • You can save the Search, to return to over time.

The Grantmaking tab offers graphs comparing issues that received funding, the number grants made in what states, the NTEEs, and more. Graphs likes these are behind paywalls on other search sites.

Another pleasant discovery, the Dashboard remembers recent searches, viewed profiles, and lists updates on them.

 

Give it try: https://www.causeiq.com/

Jobs in Philanthropy

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Last updated on December 7th, 2025

This is a free job board that AP puts together. Our interest is getting good Minnesota nonprofit folks into good local and national foundation jobs. With few exceptions, we only include foundations, corporate giving programs, and related grantmakers.

Philanthropic sector Job Boards:

Open Positions

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Need a sounding board for your development ideas? Need promising new ideas from the philanthropic sector? Need someone to think about the big picture or the day-to-day fundraising stuff? AP crew members offer 30-minute chats for free.

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