Kelly Hurt & Associates has extensive experience in developing relationships with, and cultivating, foundation and corporate funders. We realize that people give money to people. That is why we focus foundation and corporate fundraising on building relationships with the key decision makers. These relationships begin by determining what types of programs and services they want to fund and then offering them opportunities to become engaged in agencies that provide these services.
We respect the time of foundation and corporate funders and often re-direct our clients away from funders that do not share their mission and vision to help them remain focused on those funders with the greatest potential for funding.
Kelly Hurt & Associates has access to several databases that enable us to conduct comprehensive research for our clients to identify new potential funders. We then work with them to cultivate these donors through direct contact, visits, and other venues. We then write and submit grant requests for our clients. Finally, we maintain grant charts that provide snapshot information about the date requests were sent, amount requested, last contact made, decision date, and other information - as well as contact logs containing every contact made with these funders. This enables our clients to develop long-term, successful relationships with their foundation and corporate donors.
Foundation and Corporate Relations successes include:
Creating and managing a unique, comprehensive fundraising database that enables nonprofits to easily and quickly find grant opportunities and guidelines all in one place.
Creating research offices at nonprofit agencies and utilizing them to identify dozens of potential funders.
Conducting research for donors on foundation and corporate prospects and donors to help them create or enhance their relationship building with these funders and to help them provide more targeted grant requests based upon the funders' mission and interests.
Creating and maintaining effective foundation and corporate fundraising strategies for several donors that has resulted in revenue increases of up to 50% and greatly enhanced clients' relationships with these funders.
