Finding that lost luggage- unpacking new tools and creativity in funding approaches.

Lacey Berumen, Phdc, MNM

What is in your suitcase?

• Grants- Public or Private• Donors• Service Fees• Membership• General Fundraising – Walk or Runs

Is there room for more or are you at you weight limit?• Do You have a donor base?• Do you have a grant writer/reviewer?• Can you partner for services?• Can you be a fiduciary agent for others?• Do you have a audience to tell your story to?• What do you have the capacity to manage

and do an awesome job with?• If you had X you could do Y

Thinking outside of the box• One of the most useful of all thinking modes

in creative problem solving is visual thinking. It is especially effective in solving problems where shapes, forms, or patterns are concerned

Thinking outside of the box

Mind Mapping

• A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize ideas. A mind map should be based on one concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas are added. The major ideas are connected directly to the central idea, and other concepts branch out from those.

Create your map

Translate your idea to funders

• Get their attention • What are we going to do with our proposed

project ?• Why is it worth doing?• How will we know that the conclusions are

valid? What difference will it make?

Telling your story• Introduction• What happened?• What helped?• How are you different today?• Make your point• Make your ask• Thank you

How to build your story• Make it clear, compelling and memorable• Speak clearly • Tell it from the heart• Is anything helping? What how will this

increase with funding?• Keep the interest/engagement• Don’t data them to death• Be true to your story

Why use a story?• Stories are real and are statistics with tears

removed• Can be colorful illustrations of facts and

situations• People can relate to stories• Briefly outlines a problem and offers

solutions…. Connects to grant request

Fund it• Colorado Common Grant Application.• Outline• Grant Samples• Letters of intent• Funders are people too

Resources• What is in your state?• Professional organizations• Professional relationships• Networking• Craigslist• Others

Discussion• Questions• Ideas• Etc.