3. Grant Types
Tier 1
Tier 2
Program Related Investments
Pre-Development Program
Art Acquisition Fund
Harper Arts Touring Fund
Arts in Education
Sabbatical
Individual Artist Awards
4. Tier 1 Grants
Up to $25,000
Awards made
monthly
Capital, technology,
capacity building,
program expansion
and creative works
5. Last Year
• 90 Tier 1 grants
awarded
• $1.6 million total
($17,777
average)
• 60% outside of
Anchorage
8. What we don’t fund Who we don’t fund
Government functions Schools and churches
(generally)
Operating expenses
Individuals (except for artists)
Deficits or debt reduction
Organizations planning to
redistribute funds
Endowments, scholarships, e
vents or sponsorships
Politically-affiliated or
discriminatory organizations
Reimbursements for items
already purchased;
Emerging technologies.
10. How it
works
90 day turnaround
Only one open
Tier 1 at a time
Easy reporting
process
Repeat
11. Think about:
100% board giving
Community benefit
Funding diversity
Right request?
Operating expense
vs. capital project
Readiness
Q? Call first
12. Types of Grants: Capital Grants
Great way to start a relationship with the Foundation;
80% (65) of the 90 grants were for capital/renovations.
13. Open Arms Child Development Center
Project description: Funding for new carpeting
Application Strength:
• Strong support – 65% of funds generated locally;
• Well articulated need – Kids + Nasty Carpet = BAD!
Tip: Have you asked business for a nonprofit
discount?
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation: $13,320
Zion Lutheran Church $21,000
Plambeck’s Flooring $4,160
Total Project $38,480
14. Girdwood Nordic Ski Club
Trail construction
• Secured funding: $351,929
• Rasmuson Contribution: $18,000
Application Strength
• Work done prior to Rasmuson – Project was ready to go;
• Ferocious fundraiser – wasn’t afraid of being told “no”
Tip: Explain how you will maintain/sustain project.
Funding Sources Contacted
Girdwood 20/20 Anchorage Trail Care
Anchorage HLB American Hiking Society
Individuals Conoco Phillips
State of Alaska Parks & Rec GCI
Anchorage Parks & Rec REI
National Park Service Atwood Foundation
Moose’s Tooth Wells Fargo
Alpine Air Alaska U.S. Forest Service RAC
15. Calypso Farm & Ecology Center
Patio construction and building renovation
Application Strengths:
•Reputation of organization – “doing amazing work”
•Volunteer labor
•Partnership with school;
Tip: Is there any way to partner on a project with
another community organization?
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation: $13,912
Calypso (in-kind): $9,375
Calypso (cash): $1,024
School District: $100
Total Project $24,511
16. Kenai Peninsula Food Bank
Renovation of Fireweed Diner’s kitchen
Application Strength:
• Organization provides obvious benefits to Alaskans;
• Long history with the Foundation. First grant made in
1997 for $3,300.
Tip: $25,000 awards are the exception.
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation: $25,000
Total Project $112,000
17. Technology Requests
1. Start by calling staff;
2. The Foundation will pay for technology consultant
3. Applicant can submit a request after technology strategy/plan adopted.
18. Fairbanks Rescue Mission
Technology upgrades
Application Strength:
• Vetted technology list
• Designated technology replacement fund
• 3-year technology plan in place
Tip: Technology consulting takes time and
resources. Do you have enough of both take
advantage of it?
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation $18,819
Rescue Mission $20,315
Total Project $39,134
19. Capacity building
Funding to help organizations address critical internal issues.
Examples include: Strategic/business planning, board development,
feasibility studies, audience development.
20. Alaska SeaLife Center
Support to attend out-state conference
Application Strengths:
Request contributed to ASC’s pursuit of field
accreditation.
Had significant dollars designated for travel and personnel development.
Tip: Request should be part of a development strategy. We do not like “stand
alone” requests.
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation $5,000
SeaLife Center $3,339
Total Project $8,339
21. Creative Works
Funding to support the creation and publication of
films, documentaries, books, exhibits and other cultural works.
Strong Alaska-specific context
22. University of Alaska Foundation
University of Alaska Press
Expenses to publish book titled "My Wrangell Mountains”.
Application Strength:
Unique subject matter
Tip: Requests commonly have an educational component
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation: $25,000
UA Press: $10,050
Total Project $35,050
23. Program Expansion
Funds to support growth into areas related to expertise;
Broad impact.
24. Anchorage Museum
Funding to support True North Art Exhibit
Application Strengths:
• Natural fit with what museum is already doing
• Sector leader
Tip: These should be initiated by established
organization
Project Budget:
Rasmuson Foundation: $19,000
Alaska Air $4,000
BP $10,000
Alaska Design Forum $5,000
Total Project $38,000
43. Copies of this presentation:
Questions?
www.slideshare.net/rasmusonfoundation
Call us: Jeff Baird, 297-2831
JEFF BAIRD: jbaird@rasmuson.org
Notas del editor
School and church project have to have broad community appeal. In rural Alaska a school acts as a community hub
An active board: Expect board members to make a financial contribution to the organization at least once a year. We expect it to be a meaningful contribution. Time and money not interchangeable.
Do your board members feel strongly enough about the project to financially contribute to the organization
While not directly related to its academic services, new carpeting will help Open Arms maintain its professional appearance and create a more sanitary and healthy learning environment. Both are important and advance Open Arms' mission of providing quality care to its clients.Open Arms Development Center (Open Arms) was founded by the Zion Lutheran Church in 2000 and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2005 to "serve young children and their families in the North Star Borough with exemplary infant and early childhood education." With a staff of 60, Open Arms provides early childhood education to 232 children ages six weeks to 11 years old, five days per week, 11.5 hours per day, including children with special needs and low income families. Open Arms also provides summer school classes which were attended by 62 students in 2010. About 30% of its students received some type of financial assistance last year. Open Arms received the National Association for the Education of Young Children accreditation in 2008.
Construction of 6-kilometer combined Nordic/multi-use trail in the Glacier-Winner Creek Valley
Generally for social service organizations.Can ask for it but should have compelling reason
BSAC requests $9,000 of an $18,000 project for gallery improvements and equipment purchases. Rasmuson funds will be used to install energy-efficient lighting in BSAC's back gallery, replace carpeting and to purchase a desk, office equipment, a Macbook computer and a digital camera.
This facility was critical to the Ionia model.
10 of 90 Tier 1 applications
AKMNH requests $23,723 of a $24,073 project to perform a major technology upgrade. AKMNH plans to purchase five desktop computers, a new server, and other necessary components to upgrade the office infrastructure and provide networking capabilities. The entire technology upgrade project is being guided by a detailed information technology assessment, strategic plan and budget prepared by consultants of Design-PT, Inc. (the Foundation's technology consulting and maintenance firm).
FRM plans to purchase/ refurbish 22 computers, a new server, a back-up system, software and will make other infrastructural changes to accommodate the new equipment. The entire technology upgrade project is being guided by a detailed information technology assessment, strategic plan and budget prepared by consultants of Design-PT, Inc.FRM's 20 computers range from barely acceptable to completely inadequate and collectively have an appalling lack of RAM that hinders essential tasks. Additionally, FRM doesn't have an articulated data back-up process, possess dated and inadequate operating and virus-protection software and has an inadequate server.
From this should be able to tell who you are and what you do and what you hope to accomplish
Our communication about philanthropy is front and center in our work, and you can see four tactics on the front page of our website. First, our website prominently features stories written by literary artists about the nonprofit partners we work with. Not about our grants specifically, but about the role the nonprofit serves in communities or in the lives of individuals.Second, each week we post a blog post about an issue, a grant we’ve made, an accomplishment by nonprofit partner, or even an event that is upcoming. This is were we share what’s important to the organization in any point in time.Third, we have an active media relations program where we not only distribute news about the Foundation, and here you can see our press releases, but we also try to link reporters to interesting nonprofit stories in a more informal way to make sure the sector gets coverage. And fourth, we are active users of social networks to share stories and information and engage Alaskans in conversations about philanthropy
Great time to apply for a Tier 1 Grant; We want to make more awards in the Interior; Tier 1 Grants can be gateway to bigger things; Reach out to me if I can help in any way