YPR Event FundraisingOn-Boarding Call #3

Roll Call: Attendance

Finding Funding in Your Community

• Treatment centers

• Local businesses

• Foundations

• Communicate!

• Tell National (Ann) who you want to solicit

• There may be reasons to red light or green light the “ask”

Treatment Centers: How to Ask

• Give before you get

• Collaborate with a treatment center before asking for a gift

• Ex: workshops, coalitions, town hall meetings, social events, etc.

Treatment Centers: When to Ask

Treatment Centers: What to Ask

• Educate yourself

• Visit YPR Connect to download what you need

• Slideshows, brochures, FAQ sheets for treatment providers

Asking businesses for a gift:DO: • Think local– do you have a connection?• Recovery-owned?• Are you or your chapter good customers?• Make an ask that’s easy for them to give– ie:

In-kind gifts

Examples of in-kind gifts See Event toolkit on YPR Connect for more info

Asking businesses for a gift:

DON’T: • Waste your time with

national chains, even if they’re headquartered in your city/town

o Exception is if you have a personal relationship to a top executive

Asking businesses for a gift:

• Don’t reinvent the wheel– use YPR resources

• Corporate giving toolkit online at YPR Connect

• Template letters, forms & brochures

• Family foundations

• Institutional foundations

• Corporate foundations

Foundation Gifts:

Foundation Gifts- Best Practices

• Research the foundation

• Fiscal sponsor rules?

• Three years of audited financials?

• When in doubt, call and ask to speak to program director

Like “Fight Club,” there’s only one rule about foundation fundraising at

YPR…

• Don’t apply without talking to Ann

• Don’t apply without talking to Ann

• Don’t apply without talking to Ann

• Call #4 on crowd funding

Coming Up

Questions?