Annual Fundraising Plan 2013
Grants Strategy
- Heuristic Approach:
- Strategy A - Similar NGOs
- List of Organizations With Similar Mission
- List of Foundations That Funded Similar NGOs
- Community Survey of Funding Opportunities
- Modular Proposal Writing System
- Strategy B - Select Keywords
- List of Select Keywords
- Target foundations that fund specific programmatic areas and that fit our geographic scope
- Strategy A - Similar NGOs
- Brute-Force Approach:
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
- Architecture
- Archives
- Business/industry
- Central America
- Civil liberties, freedom of information
- Climate change/global warming
- Community development, business promotion
- Community/economic development
- Design
- Developing Countries
- Economic Development
- Economically Disadvantaged
- Education, e-learning
- Energy
- Engineering
- Engineering/Technology
- Environment
- 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
- ...