Animal Welfare Professionals

Reply from discussion thread titled, "Excluding Rescues from Grants"

"Morning Heather! I understand your frustration. It's getting harder and harder for rescues to receive grant funding. I have been using grantgopher.com for a few years, and it's only $9/month.  It offers quite a lot of leads for a pretty minimal cost. The bulk of the leads are foundations, so I am now working toward building relationships with these foundations prior to the "ask".  I have gone to several workshops and watched many webinars, and most seem to agree that it takes 2-3 years of relationship building before a grant application is funded. So we have created a simple "impact report" that we are emailing/mailing out with a letter of introduction. We will follow that up with a newsletter, and so on. We are hoping that once they see what we do, they will be more inclined to join us in our mission. Hope this helps!  Good luck! We all need it!    P.S. I am attaching a copy of our "Impact Report" in case that's helpful."