Annual Fundraising Plan 2013

Grants Strategy

1. Heuristic Approach:
   1. Strategy A - Similar NGOs
      1. List of Organizations With Similar Mission
      2. List of Foundations That Funded Similar NGOs
      3. Community Survey of Funding Opportunities
      4. Modular Proposal Writing System
   2. Strategy B - Select Keywords
      1. List of Select Keywords
      2. Target foundations that fund specific programmatic areas and that fit our geographic scope
2. Brute-Force Approach:
   1. Exhaustive List of Search Keywords
   2. Modular Proposal Writing System

Notes:

• Many foundations fund programs that promote engineering/technical training education for youth. OSE could offer youth-specific programs, internships to pre-engineering students, fill in the blank.

Resources

• Foundation Directory Online
• Government Grant and Contract Resources
• USAID Opportunities for Funding
• Top 50 Foundations Awarding Grants in the State of Missouri - Foundation Center
• Top 50 Foundations Awarding Grants in Kansas City, MO

Grants Calendar - $75,000 & Under

Overview: these are funding sources that Open Source Ecology will submit grants/letters of inquiry to where the opportunity is for $75,000 or less.

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Grant Opportunities Calendar

Overview:

• Sheet A - Grants w/ Deadlines: these are all grant opportunities that have cleared an initial pre-screening process and that have deadlines. Foundations may be listed twice: once for the LOI deadline, and another time for the grant application deadline.
• Sheet B - Grants w/o Deadlines: these are all grant opportunities that have cleared an initial pre-screening process and that do not have deadlines.

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Foundations - Prospects to Research

Overview:

• Sheet A - Heuristic Research: these are foundations that have funded non-profit organizations with similar missions to Open Source Ecology's. The data in the first column is dynamically referenced from the spreadsheet further down the page titled Foundations - Funded Similar NGOs, and it is filtered to remove redundancies. Each foundation will be looked at in-depth using the Foundation Directory Online and added to the Annual Grants Calendar if they meet our requirements.
• Sheet B - Brute Force Research: these are foundations that were identified through an exhaustive research process into all of the grant opportunities listed in the Foundation Directory Online. (See Search Keywords)

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NGOs - Similar Programmatic Activity

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Foundations - Funded Similar NGOs

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Search Keywords - All

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Search Keywords - Select

• Agriculture
• Agriculture, community food systems
• Agriculture, farm cooperatives
• Agriculture, farmlands
• Agriculture, sustainable programs
• Agriculture/food
• Agriculture/food, public education
• Agriculture/food, research
• Architecture
• Archives
• Business/industry
• Central America
• Civil liberties, freedom of information
• Climate change/global warming
• Community development, business promotion
• Community development, public/private ventures
• Community development, small businesses
• Community/economic development
• Community/economic development, public education
• Community/economic development, research
• Design
• Developing Countries
• Economic Development
• Economically Disadvantaged
• Education, community/cooperative
• Education, e-learning
• Education, public education
• Education, research
• Education, single organization support
• Electronic communications/Internet
• Energy
• Engineering
• Engineering/Technology
• Environment
• Environment, climate change/global warming
• Environment, energy
• Environment, ethics
• Environment, land resources
• Environment, public education
• Environment, research
• Environmental education
• Environment - Research
• Film/video
• Global programs
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• International development
• International economic development
• Housing/shelter, research
• Media, film/video
• Media, print publishing
• Natural resources
• Science, public education
• Social entrepreneurship
• Telecommunications
• Urban/community development
• Venture philanthropy
• Vocational education
• Waste management
• Water pollution
• Web-based media
• ...