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: