The document provides ideas for nonprofit organizations to strengthen relationships with corporate and foundation donors. It suggests determining how much funding comes from these donors and ensuring donor relations efforts are proportional. Nonprofits should partner with corporate and foundation relations teams to coordinate impact reporting, frontline contacts, and experiences. They should also send relevant publications to foundation program officers, invite them to events, and send handwritten thank you notes to corporate contacts acknowledging gifts. Nonprofits are encouraged to offer donors unique access and the real impact of their giving.

1. Corporate and Foundation
Stewardship
Lynne M. Wester
@donorguru

2. Corporate and Foundation Donors
Road Map
• –Needs
•Individuality
•Brand Recognition
•Fiscal Responsibility
• Challenges

3. Why ask Why?
• What percentage of your gifts come from
Corps and Founds?
•How much does this total per year?
•How much of your donor relations efforts are
geared or include CFR?
•Is it proportional?

4. Ideas for Implementation: Foundations
• Partner with your CFR team (if you have one)
To coordinate:
• Impact Reporting
• Frontline Contacts
• Experiences

5. Ideas for Implementation: Foundations
• Send your foundation program officer a copy
of related publications, papers, press releases,
or copies of press coverage.

6. Ideas for Implementation: Foundations
• Invite foundation officers to your events,
particularly those related to the grant.

7. Ideas for Implementation: Foundations

8. Ideas for Implementation:
Corporations
• Always write acknowledgments to not only
the grant maker but also hand written notes
to your contact at the corporation.

9. Ideas for Implementation:
Corporations
• Invite corps and founds into your giving
societies, especially cumulative ones.

10. Ideas for Implementation:
Corporations
• Offer real impact of their giving.
• Provide them unique access opportunities.

11. Ideas for Implementation:
Corporations
• Corporations embrace innovation and
technology at in far more rapid and
encompassing way than we do.
• Finally, remember that corps and founds are
made up of individual people.

14. No Original Ideas Here: