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Grace Sato & Nicole Lee: How Foundations Make Decisions: Data Matters
It’s our final show in Foundation Center Month! Looking at their annual report, “Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy,” Foundation Center‘s Grace Sato explains the research her team creates and how foundations use data to make smart funding decisions. Nicole Lee from United Airlines shares how her company does disaster philanthropy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent from your aptly named host. We’re live from the foundation center in new york city. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d be hit with a stick. I assis if i saw that you double down on the idea that you missed today’s show how foundations make decisions, data matters it’s our final show in foundation center month. Looking at their annual report measuring the state of disaster philanthropy, foundation centers, grace sato explains the research her team creates and how foundations used data to make smart funding decisions. Nicolay, from united airlines shares how her company does disaster philanthropy dahna welcome our studio audience thank you very much for coming out. Welcome to our youtube audience, which sold out. I hope you, uh well, there’s, nobody on who would have been locked out because that you wouldn’t be here, but you may have come back, so i’m sorry if you got inconvenienced if you were locked out, we had so many subscribers we had to raise the cap, but i’m glad you’re with us so many youtubers, thanks so much for being with us on tony state, too, i want you to stay with the show, responsive by pursuing full service. Fund-raising data driven and technology enabled. Tony dahna slash pursuant capital p wagner, sepa is guiding you beyond the numbers. Wagner, cps dot com bye, tello’s turning credit card processing into your passive revenue stream. Tony dahna slash tony tello’s and by text to give mobile donations made easy text npr, to four, four, four, nine, nine, nine youtubers want you to send us your questions. You could put him in the comments. We have somebody watch etching that stream, so by all means, you’re a part of the audience, sending your questions youtubers, and we will get to you. Same thing with our studio audience will be taking questions here, too. Very glad to welcome our guests. Grace sato is a knowledge services manager at the foundation center. She analyzes data to describe trends and priorities in philanthropy. She’s worked in a in the nonprofit sector from more than fifteen years before researcher she was a social worker in children and family services. Greece is seated right next to me. Nicolay is senior manager of corporate and community affairs for united airlines in chicago, illinois. She’s accountable for marketing, communications and storytelling for the group customer facing charitable initiatives and humanitarian aid and disaster response, she’s worked in corporate social responsibility also for more than fifteen years. I want to welcome phil it’s, our friend here, phil. Philanthropy he’s been getting shot out. Uh, people have been wondering what’s that bear in the audience who said, you know the bear phil is no longer in the tardis on stage with us feel standing here sitting here. I don’t know if you can see he’s got a foundation center cap on. I’m no few tubers. You can make that out. But foundation center kapin join me in welcoming philanthropy and grace and nicole, thanks so much for being with us. Great. So we’ll start with you. Oh yeah, knowledge services manager, what kind of knowledge are you accumulating ? We are accumulating knowledge about institutional philanthropy and so no non-profits are often familiar with foundation center because of the grants data, and they’re looking at it to identify potential thunders for the areas of work and internally. We’re also looking at that data to talk about trends in the field of philanthropy, and we’re able to analyze that data in lots of different ways, according teo, whatever the research question might be. And so today we’re talking about disaster philanthropy, but it’s a whole new range of issue areas and some of the things that i’ve worked on or i’m working on this year, you know, it could be funding for dance in the chicago area to funding for latin and central america funding for young men of color. So you know, whatever questions people might have about what philanthropy is doing in a certain area, we’re able to look at our data to talk about is it foundations that come to you and ask you these specifics, like what’s the state of funding dance in chicago, it often can be the knowledge. Tools that we create tend to be funded nowhere non-profit just like others. And so the way we operate based on contracts and grants and so it’s, often foundations that are funding us to do research in a specific area. Okay, andi, is it also initiatives on your own ? Yeah. We used to create these publications on key facts on philanthropy, and we’re going to go back to doing an annual report, like giving us. Yeah. And we do provide data to giving us for for their sort of peace of the philanthropy data. So, yeah, we do some of that. And we do. You know, if there are specific issue areas, maybe not even related to the grants data, but we might do special work on topics that are of interest at the time on dh. Then how is this fed back to ? I mean, i could see if it’s a if it’s a specific foundation or consortium asking and obviously that their privy to the data. How about for the wider community ? How did they access ? Yeah, i mean, let’s say that ninety percent i don’t know. It’s. Just if wait, what we create funded by philanthropy is available to the public so it becomes public knowledge that anyone can access and especially when we’re, you know, posting reports online or we’re creating these websites that people can go to it’s often a non-profit audience that’s coming to use these two okay, is there one specific site people can go to to see all the yeah available research way have it like a research collection on issue lad, i think it’s called knowledge services that foundation center that or always bet up during the break to see if that’s actually correct, but so there is a collection of all of our research report you can go on our web site foundations under not or to see what other like online tools we have a deal okay on, is it ? Is it just us philanthropy that you’re that you’re measuring or global is well now disaster report is global on yeah, we’re getting a lot more global data like foundation center used to be very us focused, but we have a lot of partnerships with other organisations where we’re getting a lot more non us donordigital dahna and so increasingly what we’re able to analyse isn’t just about us. And so the disaster philanthropy work that we’re doing, we’ve done this annual report in partnership with the center for disaster philanthropy for fight. This will be our fifth year, but this is our first year in that time to actually say let’s, just look at the whole universe offending, not just limited to us foundations, okay, donors as well as recipients, of course international as well, okay, buy-in bonem so we moved to the disaster philanthropy area, you’re so this is an annual you’ve done this, what, like, three or four years in a row now ? Okay, um, and you’re covering not only natural disasters, but man made humanitarian christians as well movement of people, refugees, yeah, and that’s, the kind of work were able to do in partnership because we’re sort of the experts on the data that are our funding partners or partners, whoever they might be, are they experts in the issues that we’re analyzing ? And so when we first began working with the center for disaster philanthropy, one of the first things we did was build this advisory committee to talk about, like, how do we want to look at the data around disasters and so with this expert committee, we have this taxonomy that looks at the different disaster types before this work, we just sort of had a code for disasters that now worry about the distinguished what’s for hurricane versus what’s for a volcano and look at it in a more nuanced way and also specific to this project they were like, we’re not just interested in the type of disaster, but we’re interested in where in the funding cycle are people giving so there’s a lot of giving going towards an immediate response and relief that how can we know what’s being given for a long term recovery, who’s getting for disaster preparedness ? And so when we work in partnership, were able to say, okay, well, this is how we can begin to code the data to look at those kinds of questions. How confident are you ? Of ? Of what ? Uh, what percentage of the data of the last disaster giving you’re able to capture ? Oh, um, that’s a big question. So, like foundation centers, focus is on institutional philanthropy, but there’s a whole lot of giving going out from individuals that were not necessarily capturing, you know, we’re able to see, what is the u s federal government doing through fema data and hard data, but your country’s air giving for deciding things institutional include government ? Yeah, and what we were able to do right now is track us through the they’re sort of measuring what’s given from governments to governments or what’s giving from multilateral institutions. And we’re analyzing that data but there’s a whole world of data that swimming out there and so were we were analyzing what we have access to at the moment. Okay, okay. Let’s. Bring nicole in and we’re gonna talk more about the disaster. Philanthropy report. Cole, uh, um acquaint us with the philanthropy that united airlines does have, does it ? How does it react in this disaster response area ? Well, at united, you know, we pride ourselves and as an airline and preparing for emergencies for aircraft emergency specifically. So we’ve got a lot of experience and skills in those areas and lends itself really well in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster and really that’s sort of where we have found a sweet spot for ourselves in terms of being able to leverage our assets are network or people on our customers to respond to natural disasters, so really, since since i’ve been with the company about ten years now, i can think back to about two thousand eleven was the first really major major disaster that we responded to is the japan earthquake and tsunami, when the fukushima power plant went down on that impacted some of our people that were out there stationed at the airport, and we had an opportunity to provide assistance, and we look at each situational in isolation of bite-sized so really, what can we do to respond ? How does it impact our operations and our employees and our customers on what’s the best way for us to add value to the situation ? It’s not every night, every disaster that we respond with an aircraft, we have aircraft, and we have the ability to get in where people might not be able to, but in some cases, the real power and value that we add is helping to stand up fund-raising so we’ll run an online fund-raising campaign and provide an incentive for our customers to donate cash. Our disaster partners were well versed enough to understand that the best thing that we can do in disaster situation is to provide as much cash support as we can for the the experts, uh, but all of the humanitarian aid partners that are out there disaster response experts that know what they’re doing, rather than doing code drives and who drives, we understand that’s not a very productive way to respond to this disaster. So we do look at those factors you were able to leverage. The united resource is to come in from chicago. I think you want everybody flights. Thank you for your see the boards. It’s aa years is the thin crust, a deep dish twenty five times a day, right from new york to chicago. Many operas even shout out unearned media for united airlines. Absolutely, absolutely. How do you decide ? You know, as the company let’s make explicit united airlines doesn’t have a foundation, right ? We no longer have a direct information on all of our corporate giving is then through through our department corporate community affairs, we continue to support many non-profits and causes around the world through our department is s o is the response than primarily when it’s, when it impacts united operations, you you have hubs ? Um, is it when it’s one factor that this was one yeah, it’s an important factor may would be lying if i said that it wasn’t absolutely it’s a corporation is a corporation way look at every every situation of itself in the case of the nepal earthquake or the haiti earthquake. So those were two locations we didn’t serve commercially on with haiti. We felt really compelled, given the state of the country that really urgent need for assistance on and we were able to secure an aircraft when we’re the first commercial airline to fly humanitarian flight into port au prince um and that really i think, is a point of pride for me. As a united employees, we focus on doing what’s, right ? And when we can. And when it makes sense for us to do it, we do. On. We ran humanitarian flights until the airport was open for commercial operations. When you say humanitarian flights is that flights that have a dh correct way people toe responders is a matter of fact. Wear passenger airline. But we carry quite a bit of cargo as well, eh ? So whatever we could fit in the bellies of these planes, we we brought water. We brought medical supplies. We brought tents. We brought surgeons. We bought rue, brought search and rescue. We brought experts in clean water. There were a lot of a lot of various volunteer groups that we opened up our aircraft to to bring people in on. And then we were part of the evacuation exercise as well. The military was in charge of the airport at the time, and there were droves of people who were looking to get off the island on. And we flew those people out of port au prince into different places like chicago or new york. Um, scuse me just chicago at the time. Actually getting my time wrong here. But if they needed to get beyond chicago. We took care of that too. Uh, worked really closely with a partners to make sure that individuals had what they needed when they got tio their destinations. If we’re flying them through chicago, we had partners, they’re ready to give them clothes is a lot for a lot of folks. They don’t have anything but the shirts on their backs waiting for their waiting for a way out of the island. Grayson, do you find that local foundations will will help in in some kind of crisis, even if it’s outside there outside their mission, you know, if they’re they’re devoted to funding or use dance of arts or social services or something that’s not related to humanitarian relief directly, but they’ll they’ll they’ll step up anyway. Yeah, i mean, i think when a disaster hits an area, it affects everyone and everything. So even if your focus is like the arts, you’re artists are going to be impacted by that disaster. And so one of the things that are partner of the center for disaster people impacted. Yeah, maybe students might be the homeless, you know, whoever it is you helping during that there’s a. Need there differently than your mission exactly. And it’s, not common tear. A foundation described themselves as a disaster thunder like there aren’t that many that would say that’s what we do, but when a crisis happens, every funder becomes in some way, disaster funder, they’re going to be doing something to address the crisis. And so one of the things we hope is that as we keep talking about it and hasn’t keep bringing data and best practices, fenders will start to think of themselves a little bit differently, so that don’t make choices that will spending decisions that will really make an impact on hoping whatever population there trying to serve. Do you find that ? Not sure how to work this is it foundations relying on ? They must be relying on local partners. How did they ? How did they determine who they’re going to partner with in the midst of a crisis ? Yeah, you can’t have partners set up everywhere, right in the certainly in the country or even in the world. How do you how do they make those decisions ? Who ? The partner with the day of a crisis. The day after a crisis ? Yeah, i mean it could depend on the thunder thunder focuses on a specific region they might have relationships with the non-profits that are working on the ground, but often, if that doesn’t happen in a foundation, wants to give teo kind of a topic that you talked about a couple weeks ago on community philanthropy it’s often the community foundations that are building some kind of response and recovery fund that larger foundations will give. Teo and nicole, you can probably speak more to that, but, um, kind of with the understanding that these communities next she wants your Job yeah, somebody 1 of the job last week too. He was that paul was that guy thought he was set for overviewing and then he botched something. He got all confused. He lost his point. He said, well, i should get what i was thinking. I was going to say so stuart, was that stuart ? Yeah, stuart post. And then so i bailed him out, so he realized he was not teo ugo. So ? So how do you how do you do that ? Nicole, what do you do in a crisis ? You go to community foundations or if it’s international, how do ? You choose the local partners, give often times it’s cash, you said. Sure, so we do, like i said, rely heavily on our on our global partners. But at the same time, we rely on our folks that around the ground, our government affairs and international regulatory point, is your employees s so i can point to a really great example of this with the community foundations is with california wild players. Att the end of last year, beginning of this year, we said, we ran a few fundraisers and really looking to make sure that the dollars are staying local, giving our customers options to provide funding for various different size organizations. We partnered with shasta regional community foundation as well as north coast opportunities. Most recently on really got those recommendations through our community relations staff person, who’s on the ground in san francisco and working through a government affairs folks that are on the ground as well. On let’s see grace’s diving little deeper to the disaster philanthropy report. Now you two met when the report was being released. Is that right ? Yeah. Were you in love with the report ? Really old friends way was about this time last year. Okay, what ? What ? Give us a like a top one or two take aways you know, top points that their people were goingto direct people to the reports. That report is available to you, let’s start with what are a couple of major points. Yeah, right. So it’s, based on kind of the annual analysis that we d’oh called the state of disaster philanthropy and because of the nature of the data that we’re working with, we don’t say we have a complete your set of data until maybe about two years after the fact. So, like this year, we’re releasing a report in november, and that will be about twenty six places to write this twenty seventeen from twenty, fifty ways. Yeah, trusted team. So we’re always a little bit, you know, behind because you just need enough data and the way we are able to get data can take time to collect. Um, but i would say maybe the main takeaway from the work that we’ve been doing is probably really intuitive, but it kind of it gives the analysis to support what one would already imagine to be true, which is that the majority of funding for disasters happens for the immediate response and really effort and there’s not enough funding going towards the mid to long term recovery and there’s not enough funding for preparedness for communities and making communities resilience before and the long term after mid term and long term after yeah, you know, it’s it’s hard the you know, the cameras go away, the next news item comes up on dh people in that region, whether they’re refugees or it’s ah, tsunami, you know, there’s suffering for years, but the attention of the world moves on, yeah, the needs linger. And i think that’s also where, like the local partners, the community foundations are really important because there they’re there to stay, you know, they’re part of that community, and so they’ll be able to see the needs with a long term and i think that’s also why they’re important partners in this work because there, i think, may be able to address and see and feel the sort of longer term impact of these disasters and address them and try to keep attention focused them, i guess, the attention of funders not going to get the attention of media unless it’s the anniversary of the media, likes to come back a year later, the two years later, what’s the progress, et cetera. But in the meantime, funders funder attention needs to be, you know, nicole is united ableto help in the in the mid term and long term after after a disaster ? We are so we are able, teo and i think, you know, having listened to the presentation and of the report last year was really eye opening for us, but really did sort of reinforce what we’ve been experiencing ourselves in terms of seeing the need for more preparedness and resiliency for a very long time. We were way found our our niche really to be in the immediate aftermath and hadn’t really considered what the opportunities were tio continue helping with rebuilding and resiliency, really looking at the other side of that with preparedness. Really, i think, with with hurricane harvey last year, i think it really hit home to us with harvey hitting right in the heart of houston twelve thousand employees there we felt it very acutely with our own families that were living there and our operations being impacted and the communities that we really cared about. So i think post, harvey, we really started to look at what other partnerships we could we can engage in and with partners with our disaster relief partners. What are they doing in terms of preparedness and resiliency ? So it’s looking at are the landscape of our partnerships to see what what it is they’re doing. We really trusted our partners to be the experts, you know we don’t it’s not our business, tio be disaster, philanthropy and disaster response experts. We really look at ourselves is really strong partners to help our help empower and enable our non-profit partners to do what they do best really lean on them. Tio do that. And then, of course, to the extent that it’s it’s cash that e-giving from the from the from the customer campaigns, you know that if that’s to the community foundation, then there’s, you know there’s a contribution to the interment linked arms graceful zsystems yes, it’s going to say and there’s something to be said about this foundation’s being prepared for how well really will respond the next time ? Probably built in the body of experience that way kind of no, we don’t want to do this, we want to do this and having, you know, there’s like a different level of prepared miss four philanthropy to teo themselves be ready for how they will respond to the next disaster. One of the things i heard recently was that for community foundations it’s really important for them to have a mechanism for individuals to give to their friend because after, like, three to four days, the donations were well, peter is like a third comes in the first three to four days, and then the remaining two thirds come within, like two weeks or something. Yeah, very short iss and so often, when community foundations are building this response, recovery funds, they actually need to have that set up as soon as the disaster happens because people will want teo set up in advance so that it could be activated and promoted, and one of the stories was that from the puerto rico. Disaster last year the community foundation didn’t have a mechanism in place, and so it was sort of a cautionary tale for community foundations. Durney is to be ready, and of course, you know them, they had their electric power grid go out, so yeah, but yeah, so there’s a level of preparedness for institutions, um there’s a level of preparedness for individuals and no so quickly people to be ready. But, yeah, the preparedness happens in all sorts of different ways that i could come in on that affecting offer something really quickly just sort of based on everything that happened last year with harvey, irma and maria. Then there was an earthquake in mexico city. More and more, we’re seeing weather events that are severe and needing assistance on what one of the things that came out of that experience last year was really within our company at least coming together with our business continuity, emergency response, human resource is and community of various teams. Teo come up with a playbook. So you talked about preparedness, and we are much better prepared based on learnings from last year, you know, with wanting teo provide as much care for employees and customers as possible. I’m balancing that with the resources that we have what’s realistic. So now we’ve we’ve spent the better part of the last year putting together a playbook that has, frankly just ready menu items that we can deploy and then we’re ready to do. We’re ready to deploy an activate none within, you know, twenty four hours of an incident, but we also have a framework that allows us to evaluate what we want to deploy and this year, in fact, with our fund-raising so i’m glad that you brought that up in terms of the number as well, we do disaster fund-raising campaigns with our customers from this year was the first time that way did a general disaster risk excuse me, disaster relief call out to our customers. We’re looking at florence at the time, and there were about five other severe weather uh, yeah, there was the country there was typhoon man coo out in the pacific, and we actually have a lot of operations out there as well and impacted our customers and our employees were global company teo run separate campaigns for every single one of these was not realistic. And it’s not helpful to our aid partners as well. You know, if we put up a campaign for one incident and then there’s two that come right behind it now, we’ve sort of sucked all the money up out of donations, and these organizations don’t have the flexibility because they accepted money for a specific incident. Eso in really providing the most flexibility tio r a partners to do what they do best general disaster, general disaster campaign that’s running through the end of october right now where we’re offering our customers doing it donate fifty dollars or more bonem smiles thanking them for their contributions because we know really yes, yes, you can earn up to one thousand miles telling e-giving linklater. Yeah, well, can you now have an inn ? Can you give me, like, a double match or something ? So we’ll see what we can get. Three thousand for the for the fifty but wait till the mikes way. Have you have any questions that start with our studio audience ? Any ? I have. Ah, pre prepared. I have candy as an inducement. Teo. Question asking. You will get you get one of these life savers. Can any ? Questions ? Any questions here, anything on our live stream ? The questions. Okay, youtubers, don’t forget. You know i can’t send you candy. I can show it to you. 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The podcast pleasantries that’s, where the vast majority of the audience is over thirteen thousand listeners each week, whatever time, whatever device you’re listening on pleasantries to the podcast audience and the affiliate affections go out to our am and fm affiliates throughout the country. Lots of community radio stations carrying non-profit radio. So grateful to your stations for doing that. And grateful to you for listening on those am and fm stations. Terrestrial radio it’s going nowhere. It’s not going to die. Podcasting is not going to kill am fm radio. It’s not gonna happen. Affections to our affiliate audiences. Okay, back. Teo grayce latto knowledge services manager at the foundation center and the coley senior manager of corporate in community affairs for united airlines. Um, let’s. See where should we go ? What was your what intrigued you about nicole ? About the disaster ? Philanthropy report. What ? What drew you to this ? This whole idea ? First of all, i didn’t actually know it existed. We’ve been out of the foundation game for a little bit, so it wasn’t necessarily paying attention, but so there had been a united foundation in the united uh, we’ve changed over, so we do all the corporate giving, as i said through our department corporate community affairs and what really drew me, tio want to hear about the report was just really to see what the state of disaster philantech e-giving wass i wanted to see what what the rest of the world was doing and to look for opportunities potentially for where united could get involved as well. I think one of the great things that this resource really does is that, well, it exists, which is amazing because, you know, individual companies and foundations can’t do that on their own on dh it’s really, really invaluable information because it reinforces funding decisions. Uh, well, well, we well wasn’t driving funding decisions for us is absolutely reinforced the direction that we were headed. Okay, cool. What else can we so we talked about, um, preparedness, not enough resources devoted to them before, on the mid term and long term after in need of resource is so that’s, so important. Takeaways. What else ? What other what’s ? Another lesson. Weaken. We can draw from state of the last disaster philanthropy as the twenty seventeen report as it existed in twenty fifteen. Um, well, you know, talk a little bit like we do have a report. It’s a static report way also, everything that we do relate it to disaster. Philanthropy is that disaster. Philanthropy dot foundations under dahna or but in addition to the report. We do have, like a website, a web portal sort of where people can actually dig into the data in a way that they’re interested in looking at it. And so one of the things we have is a funding that and it’s visualizing the data that feeds the report so that you can actually see what’s behind it, like, who are the funders giving what you know, what are the size of the grants, whoever e-giving tio, what are the smaller grants that air going out there ? And so, you know, one of the things that foundation center has been doing more of over the last couple of years, it’s not just producing static reports because they get published their true for that moment in time, but there’s so much else that continues to change and things that people are learning and grants data continue to be distributed. And so with something like a mapping platform, you know, we’re behind and sort of the years, but we’re still getting you data. And so that gets pushed onto the platform so people can see what’s the latest that we have at least and with something like an online tool. You can then drill down to see what our partners that you might not have had on your radar that other people are giving to that you might be interested in if you’re trying to get a sense for what’s going on locally in c, you know, some of the smaller organizations that might not get that might not have, like, a national reputation, but they might be doing good work in a specific thinks, you know, red cross first, first there always the largest percentage, but there’s so many organizations doing lots of good work. And so we hope that with these online tools, that will get lift it up a little bit more, and then the other thing is that it highlights the gaps in the funding you know, by seeing where the money is going, you can also see what’s not getting funded as much, and so some of that is related. Teo, you know, the way that week do the work around is asked to plant the people beyond sort of the disaster philantech analysis for any kind of research project that we do, it highlights where funding isn’t going, how it compares with other groups. You know, and so we hope that three that funders will then say, well, i only have this limited amount of dollars to give for this area. So how do i make that count more by giving it to an area that’s not funded as much you’re seeing any shifts you’ve been doing it for five years. I mean, you could potentially see, see shifts ? I mean, are you seeing more devoted to preparedness and the medium and long term theun initially five years ago ? Not really, really. Keep touching, phil’s ear. I’m sorry. First of all, i forgot to give a shout out tio unless he has a tag on still he’s, like, totally unprepared. And i keep touching his xero something you know, it’s. Nothing essential right now, it’s. Just i just i can’t help my hand just naturally falls there. I’m sorry. Okay, sorry. Eyes. Yeah. So i think with the disaster work so much of it is dependent on what disaster occurred in that year. So there was the year where the response was so high i was the evil you’re that ebola. The ebola outbreak was huge, and that was largely driven by remind large what year was that was in twenty fourteen, and then it sort of trickled into twenty, fifteen, fourteen, and so when you get a big thunder like the bill melinda gates foundation, this is their area where right help, and so when there’s a disaster, that sort of meats that that area that they’re really interested in, they were giving a huge amount for for that response and relief effort, and then the next year they were continuing to fund, but then they’re started sort of starting to look at, you know, how do we build up resiliency in these african countries for the next outbreak ? And so when huge foundation can drive trends, you know, because they’re giving so much money and so that in twenty fifteen then there was a lot more going for risky ridge action resilience, that kind of work because of the gate, but but blending for the ebola kind of area work. So i don’t think it’s too soon to say that there’s a trend overall trend for making different funding decisions. Um and it still continues to be episode it arika the call, but can you say a lot more about what united is able to do look mid term and long term ? Or is it really just yeah, i guess you had already said yes, so we’ll let all of that gets done through our partner grayce really, with our ongoing global partnerships with a great partnership with a group called air link that provides there like a man buy-in service, basically for ngos and non-profits who are looking for cargo or passenger lift into different disaster areas to do humanitarian worker disaster response on really rely on partners like them to know where the need is most. So we provide travel, and they leverage our travel to get people there. So with the ebola outbreak, i think it’s okay, since we’re replying, you know, responders into the area, i believe at some point we also gruesome medication smaller on a smaller scale, and that was sort of outside the u s and i think back then, we were much more domestically focused now, absolutely begun to grow sort of more of our global reach followship dealing a little bit too, like one of the limitations and how we’re able tio for you is the data at disaster philanthropy foundation, center dot or ge or that’s ? Where the reporters you can see all of it there, you’ll get access to the reports. You can see them that you can see. We have, like, a dashboard that gives, like, analysis that you consider. Okay. That’s all a disaster, philanthropy, dahna foundation, center, dot or ge okay, please go. Yeah. So, you know, one of the limitations on doing any analysis is the quality of the data that you have. And so we’re doing this analysis based on kind of the best available data, which often isn’t that descriptive. You know, a lot of foundations enters data, is coming from ninety forms because foundations are required to report their grants data. And so when there’s not enough description, it’s really hard to say, like a nuanced way how much money is really going towards these specific areas of a disaster, you know, disaster work, and so one of the things that were always trying to get foundations to do is to share better data with us so that we were able to be more descriptive and what the actual landscape is and so zoho eyes there a reason that foundation would be unwilling to ? To share data, you know, i think there’s a growing movement for foundations to be more transparent and, you know, that’s true sector wide yeah, why why would we like ? Why would they give you us to form ? What would be some, you know, options are on the type of foundation it could be, you know, there’s so many very, very small foundations that may not be stuff, and you don’t have the capacity to share that data. It’s your surveys ? Yeah, one more thing that someone has to dio um, and you know, some foundations and you want to see kind of under the radar. Teo, one of the things that you hear in disaster philanthropies that corporations may not want to talk about the war thirteen because we don’t want to get solicitations for friending they don’t have the bandwidth to dress, you know, calls coming in for help, so there could be reasons why, but the thing that we try toe encourages that foundations khun tell their story, you know, and and own that story through their data like bacon sort of narrate how they’re getting, why they’re giving three that data and they could stay the way they want to otherwise people may read their nine nineteen come to their own conclusions, and so we do have a number of foundation to voluntarily give their data to us and that’s one way we’re able to get more current data, but i think just were always sort of in the search for a better team. Oppcoll what are you seeing ? Generally, you know, beyond united just among your peers in another, in other corporate socials, social responsibility on what kind of trends are you seeing ? I think, you know, obviously with the number of disasters that company’s air having to respond, teo and sort of the the clip with which it’s being covered in the news also drives people’s prevent metoo respond to them, so i think we’re having to be a lot smarter about how we’re using the limited resources that we have obviously working inside of a corporation we’re stewards of the available funding on we’re also running a business, we’re making investments and communities trying to make smart ones, and the data absolutely helps to drive that as well. Yeah, so it’s not thie event or episode gets the most attention from the media. But deserves the great proportional funding ? Yeah, culturally, absolutely. When one of the things that we’ve done it united over the last year and a half or so, it was really get into what the critical needs and each of our major markets are. So where are our biggest presence ? So here in the east coast, in york, in new jersey, houston post, harvey was a big investment that was made in a the houston greater houston food bank, a direct result of what happened with hurricane harvey. So we see decisions like that being made. I think overall people my line of work are really looking with a keen eye to see where they can best leverage. The resource is that they have, you know, when you are not the exxon mobil’s or apples of the world, you get really creative way have really found a great opportunity to work with our customers are very generous customers to collectively work together to fund disasters toe just one disaster relief, i shouldn’t say fundez aster, we don’t want to be hurt faster. That is not what we want, teo, but to fund disaster response and really to bring the most help where it’s needed as quickly as possible and as efficiently as possible. So you finding that there’s more reliance on data on you getting more requests today than you did many years ago ? I mean, you’re doing the disaster. Philanthropy, uh, report. Just for five years. But you’ve been researching long before then. Are you finding a greater reliance ? Ah, good or interest in data driven decision making. I feel that we are, but it could be just because last year’s disaster season was so dramatic traumatic. There were so many disasters taking place in a really concentrated period of time at the end of twenty. Seventeen. And so we got a lot of journalists, you know, wanting to report on this. And what this philanthropy dealing. So we were getting a lot of requests for data and that’s. One thing that i will mention is that, you know, the analysis that we do every year is based on, you know, to your old data. But because we know that there is a lot of interest in real time like there’s a disaster occurring right now. What are thunders doing ? We have have a colleague. His name is andrew. And he begins to sort of scour than use sources and gdpr newswires, just to see what our foundations and corporations announcing about. They’re giving for a specific disaster. And so we’re able to then get a picture of what people are doing as it happens. So we’ve done that with hurricane florence on our our news, our new site, pnd philanthropy, unused. I just there’s a blob tracking hurricane florence with kind of who do we know are the biggest donor so far, and you can actually open up a spreadsheet to see what we found based on these new sources. So i own two homes in north carolina, so who are the biggest funders ? O, you would be asked, listen right now that we have this wall, more than five million loes committed another two or three million, and i’m going to forget who the curse teo shot, shot a man. Thank you, thank you. Uh, see, even i forget it’s, not stuart posters. That’s. Only one neo-sage i could see when we’re thinking, okay, help me out like you were mentioning a playbook. But you have now. And so one of the things i feel like i should bring up is that our partner, the center for disaster philanthropy, also has a place like this is like, i know what it was. Okay, go ahead. And this is meant to be a resource for philanthropy like it. If you want to do strategic smart philanthropy, what should do no disaster. Finally, what did you know what of other funders learned ? What our key studies ? The things that went well, you know, so there’s this whole place that you can go it’s called the disaster look, dust repellent people book come, our fenders are disaster, philanthropy dahna or ge in-kind that there disaster, philanthropy dot org’s. You’ll find the playbook there and what i was going to ask you was, uh, how about broader ? Forget about disaster ? Flandez we just go broader ? Are you seeing any greater interesting in data driven decision making ? Your work is not just disaster ? That’s, just one report you’re collecting all kinds of data, our foundations being any smarter today than they were ten years ago about funding decisions, i think there’s a greater interest in data, whether and how that’s driving decisions is probably specific to foundations. I think that within philanthropy, there’s a lot of strides that are being need teo like, how do we measure our impact, you know, like, how do we know we’re making a difference ? And measuring that, yeah, very it’s, hard it’s not easy. And so i think there are a lot of hard conversations about that, and i think from foundation center’s data point of view, one of the important things i think we can do is begin to benchmark at least what’s happening, you know, like we wouldn’t have done this disaster philanthropy analysis without a partner that was willing to say, we want to know what the sector looks like in this way, and so once you sort of set a benchmark, then you’re able to follow it over time and see you’re making a difference. And so i think that benchmarking pieces probably important for a lot of areas like i’ve done that lives spending for black men and boys, you know, there was a partner initially was open society foundations, they had a campaign for blackmail, achievement, and they wanted to say very specifically what isthe philantech be doing for african american men and boys, and we had never kind of done research on that. So our first kind of report was what what does it look like what’s going on ? And then from there on you’re after you’re able those sort of track how the progress is going, and also then identify is it is the finding starting to dip ? You know, there was sort of the swell of interest and foundations were, you know, getting really involved and funding really in a targeted way, the specific population, but, you know, we’re able to sort of see the trends of whether or not that sustained and growing, whether that nicole, are you able, teo, hold your partner’s accountable ? Or are you relying more on the local organizations for outcomes impact analysis ? Are you able to do that yourselves ? Or we do rely on our partners a lot ? Teo again, we’re in the airline business, we get people safely from point a to point b so we do rely on our partners to do that in this first. You also want to make sure no one is obviously being spent to weigh, evaluate that on an annual basis and we we look at look at what they’re producing in terms of outcomes, the number of people that they’re reaching know if they have studies going on sort of the long term impact of their programs, so we have four. Major e-giving areas that were focused on lifting up communities in crisis after disasters. One of them. Breaking down barriers and promoting inclusion, really wanting to build a more inclusive society, uh, inspiring the next generation of leaders, which is really stem, focus with being a technical industry of and the shortage of pilots and qualified people know we’re really looking to make sure that a cz many young people as possible, especially young girls, as well as social, economic, about a minute. Sure, sorry. So, yes, we do hold them accountable, because we have conversations, and we’re gonna cast a conversation about where we can have a bigger impact. Okay, so glad to see, you know, reliance on data as much as we need more. Sounds like grace is saying we could use, you can use more. Any questions ? Any questions ? Start with our live studio audience in studio. No questions were channeling the audience so well that there’s no, not a single question. All questions have been anticipated. Have have you perceived any difference in how our foundation makes its grantmaking decisions versus how a csr program or corporate giving program might make its philanthropic decisions ? So i haven’t really work in a traditional foundations because the candy prince that do i want to say, though, that i think that the main difference in terms of the driver of the decisions really is, you know, looking at obviously foundations, air stewards of their funds as well, and they wantto wantto invest those in a smart way with with corporate giving, i think you’ve got the nuance of looking at where you can also have reputational benefits as well and where you can have the biggest impact and interacting and engaging with both customers who are, you know, lend to your funding as well, because customers have a have a big influence over your ability to give see, we take that responsibility very seriously. Andi, look, to find the best partners and, you know, most effective ways, teo, create the biggest impact with the resources that we have that answers your question, all right ? We’re going to the giveaways because i know the lifestream does not have any questions. So i’m going to give away you’re gonna need your phone. You need your phone youtubers ? Of course you are included in this going be texting for books were texting very literate. Non-profit radio is very literate. Audience e-giving away books i’ve got. I’ve got four different books as prizes this week. All right, uh, but only one prize per person, please. So, if you’re a winner, then you have to step out the next time and the system will catch you so don’t don’t try. Don’t try to game the system, okay. First one first five people, my voice treyz crack. I think it did. Five people first five people text are going to win this book. This is modern media relations for non-profits first of all, you of course you need the Numbers so here’s the number 2 five, two, five, one, five, seven, nine, eight, seven something you’re not texting. You’re not in it. Not literate. I thought i thought non-profit one hundred percent literal audience. All right. Two, five, two, five. One, five, seven, nine, eight, seven. So this first book, modern media relations for non-profits, written by peter panepento and antionette cur. They were on this show just last month, walking through the details of how to set up on be eligible for earned media paid media and your owned media. The stuff you have in your own toolbox. How to start relationships with journalists, how to be media friendly. So journalists confined you. All right. So you got the number ? Two, five, two, five, one, five, seven, nine, eight, seven. Um, what else ? That cover ? How to position yourself is a thought leader. Yes. So that reporters want to talk to you about the subject matter that you’re expert in all right. The book is brand new. Um and here’s. What ? Your text. All right, you text data, so you’re not in it. I’m sorry. I’m sorry to see that we got plenty of youtubers. Alright, that’s what you do you text data to that number ? All right. Next book. Next one is i didn’t bring a copy of everything’s too many books to carry. The next one is i have just one copy of this one. One copy. One winner this time it’s braided threads. Ah, historical overview of the american non-profit sector by dr robert penna. He was also on the show. Just last month, how did this ? How did the social sector get here ? How do we come to look the way we do it’s history ? First person to text, same number. Oh, i should said, same number, same number you got two, five, two, five, one, five, seven, nine, eight, seven, same number you text threads, threads for braided threads. Alright, third book, also one winner, one winner, same number, the same number. This one is ah, you, us and them length in marketing concepts for non-profits. I see some people now and then. Now you’re jumping in because you want this book. But you didn’t get the number, so you didn’t get it in the beginning, all right, it’s. 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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent i’m your aptly named host. We’re live from the foundation center in new york city, it’s our third show in residence here at the foundation center on foundation center month on non-profit radio oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer the embarrassment of micro kyliyah if you lift off with the idea that you missed today’s show building relationships with family foundation family foundations could be outstanding funders and partners for your non-profit but how do you get started when they say we contribute on ly to pre selected organization ? How do you start and stuart a strong relationship on our third show in foundation center month ? Our guests are a foundation expert, a foundation executive director and the foundation grantee. They’re susan, she aroma from the foundation center stewart post with um erin goff family foundation and danielle gondo at meade alliance. We’ll take audiences from our take audiences from our questions, and we’ll take questions from our audience is as well, we have live audience. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much for being here in the studio, we have our youtube audience, although you to thank you for being with us on the live stream youtube, your questions are welcome as well. Just put them into the comments and we will see them and we will answer them. I’m tony steak, too a little more on foundation center month were sponsored by pursuing full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled tony dot m a slash pursuing capital p wagner, c p a is guiding you beyond the numbers. Wagner, cps dot com bye tello’s turning credit card processing into your passive revenue stream. Tony got m a slash tony tell us and by text to give moflow donations made easy text npr to four, four, four, nine, nine nine. I’m excited to introduce our guests. I love this. Seated next to me is the senior social sector librarian at the foundation center. Susan sure, oma has been here since nineteen ninety five she’s at est aroma and the foundation center is at fdn center, a lot of which is her on that twitter stream in may two thousand five, she gave an inexperienced speaker and fairly new consultant a very early break. She invited me to present planned e-giving at the foundation center two thousand five. I was very grateful i’ve spoken here about ten times through the years, and now here we are, working together on a foundation center month on non-profit radio and non-profit radio month at the foundation center, so thank you, i’m not a thief, he’s, the executive director of the merengue off family foundation before marrying goths, stuart post was senior program officer at the brooklyn community foundation, overseeing the arts, human services and workforce development portfolios. He’s worked at brooklyn museum and in the brooklyn borough president’s office. Stuart chairs the board of brooklyn community bail fund, and he lives in queens. Isa brooklyn heights, brooklyn’s in the house, danielle guindos has almost twenty years of non-profit experience. She was appointed executive director of reed alliance in july. She manages read alliances collaborations with schools throughout the five boroughs of new york city that benefit more than fifteen hundred children each year. She and stuart should be holding hands. Reliance is, um erin goff grantee. They’re at reed, alliance, dot or ge and at lead alliance join me in welcoming our panel, please. All right, susan. Sure. Oma. What is it ? Tell me, what ? Senior social sector library in what’s. A workday. Like for a senior social library in senior social sector library. Okay, so i basically spend at least forty hours a week helping people and organizations find money. It’s it’s a real super privilege helping them. How ? How are you doing this ? Ah, well, your foundation center today, this is an example of our flagship library. Anybody can walk in off of wall street, and we will help you find grantspace going to teach you about the philanthropic infrastructure here in america and abroad. We have a network of libraries that do that philanthropic infrastructure. That means finding money. Yeah, as in when you come in here and say i need two million dollars to fund my dream, we’re going to start asking you questions about your dream and well, before you leave, you’re going to have a sense of where that money could come from, and you’ll have a very good sense of how to find it. So we do this actually one on one in our libraries, and we also work with you online. We have a wonderful ascot. Online library feature so there is no excuse for anybody with a smartphone or a computer access to the internet. Instead of calling our receptionist, you can hit us up through our chat service and we will work with you. Basically monday through friday from nine thirty to five o’clock, we let you get into your offices and then by nine thirty in the morning, you should have some fund-raising questions on your mind. Way want you to be talking to us. I can stay online with you for an hour and around a half where you can ask me a hundred questions a day. So no question is too odd for us. Ok ? And the one on one is is outstanding. You can come here or to any of the they’re not called coordinating sent coordinate library were called threat self-funding information network partners. You could go to any of the funding information network partners throughout the country which you could find it foundation center dot ord and they will help you. They will sit side by side with you and teach you how to use their software. Show you how to do the searches. It’s really incredible when she says one on one, it is it’s, not they don’t hand you emmanuelle on dh send you send you off and you can use their premier product foundation directory online for free here or in any of these centers throughout the country, and get help on how to use it. And like susan said, you will. You will walk out with a lot more information about where potential grants come from then you had when you when you came in, so check out foundations and outstanding resource when you don’t have time to talk to people, you can use our website, we must have over twenty various web properties these days. So there’s something for everybody. Thank you, stuart. You won’t tell us a little about mary-jo off family foundation the merrin got family foundation is about ten years old. It was created by a successful, generous new yorker who made him steven arundhati, my boss, who made his money new york and wanted to give back to york and the focus is on public school students, mostly working with the development programs and basically it’s an opportunity for us to help level, and we feel very strongly that. What we’re trying to do with our grantmaking is to change, we do about three million dollars a year, i don’t know where big enough to change the world, but for three million dollars with changing pompel and it seems like that personal focus is appropriate for family foundation because we really are truly a family foundation family foundation’s come in all shapes sizes, there are some that involved in for six generation of the founder. I’m working with a living donor. I’m working with living donor who has decided opinions about where the funding should go. I’m living with that working with that donors or daughters and it’s really, truly a family affair in two, three, four generations and might look very different. But now, it’s very exciting to work with the people who created this, then frankly, helped them shape what are working. Thank you. All right and read alliance is a grantee of america. Oh, no, it’s not not yet. Not yet taking up. Uh, no. But stewart and i have worked closely together. All the information i was given this grant. So i think there’s something coming my programming, but program that i’ve led in my previous rolls and other organizations have been supported by the miracle family foundation, and so stuart post and i have developed a relationship that weaken talk about today over the course of that time that hopefully will continue now that i met reed alliance, which is an organization dedicated teo leveling the playing field in educational equity, and we do that through improving the trajectory of underserved early elementary students ask public school students mainly, but we also serve students in a small portion of catholic schools and frightened charter schools. Um, we do that through the power of team leadership, providing individual one on one tutoring in foundational reading skills. And so what we’re doing is providing meaningful after school employment for nearly a thousand teens in high schools in new york city, across all five boroughs that work individually after school and over the summer, with more than a thousand and early elementary students, kindergarten, first and second grade across all five boroughs. And we’ve shown over the eighteen years of our existence that this work this works the power of pairing a near appear tutor with a younger student has been tremendously impactful, and so we know that more than eighty five percent of all the early elementary school students who have participated in our program improved their real level by more than one grade level and that’s a land three months. Our programming is is very finite. Perform that programming in forty five sessions, and so in three months we make a tremendous amount of movement. And as one of the largest employers of teens in new york city, i find that to be incredibly monumental because there’s, no way one works without the other on so that’s. One of the reasons why i am very proud to be now leading an organization that works with these two very important constituencies. Yeah, then you know, we’re going. We’re going to start to go broader, okay, and we’ll have a chance to talk about your married programs. As we as we go, i want turn to susan, because family foundation’s, yes, you’ll need the mic. Family foundations can be. Enormously generous, teo the non-profit grantees potential grantees, but, you know, we’re here to talk about getting this relationship started and keeping the relationship going. So for for the non-profits that a little nervous about approaching foundations or don’t really know how to get started ? You’re you’re you’re coaching people nine thirty two, five, seven, five days a week you said i believe you. What what are some of the top questions you get ? Frustrations you here ? How can we help people get started in a process that may be a little off putting to them or discouraging to them, even if they’ve already tried and having been successful ? Okay, so the first thing is how many foundations are there in the us who’s out there who were ignoring in terms of asking for money ? So we have one hundred forty thousand grantmaker zen foundation directory online professional this week, like two hours ago, i checked and there are ninety six thousand three hundred seventy nine independent foundations. So if we looked at family foundation’s this’s, the group that we’re talking about today, i’m going to guess that by next thursday, when we update our product foundation directory online professional and this is actually a homework assignment for everybody in the room sometime towards the end was an advertiser’s going homework. No don’t no homework, no home, an anarchist there’s, no homework, allright, no homework. But by next thursday, i’m going to be up to look into our database, and i’m making a little pledge to myself that i’m going to guess that out of the ninety six sales and three hundred seventy nine independent foundations that’s something like forty to fifty percent of them, i will discover to be family foundations. These foundations are difficult for us to get to as prospect researchers if we look at the entire pool of foundations, we know ninety percent of them don’t have websites. So for those of you who are googling to find foundations to support your work, it absolutely doesn’t work like that. Ninety percent of foundations don’t have women’s rights, and i we have a national center for family philanthropy in the us. One of their survey said that seventy seven percent of family foundation’s don’t have websites, so family foundations are difficult to get to. You have to do the research to figure out who was in your neighborhood you also have to know who’s got the money in your neighborhood, whether that’s a neighborhood in new york or the whole west coast of the u s you have to know who’s got a family foundation, they are difficult to get to the convention and say pre selected route. All right, so how do we start to do this ? Research ? Okay, so you’re gonna figure out who you know in the community, you’re going to ask your board members to help you, you’re going to ask your favorite friends in the fund-raising community and the non-profit management community to help you. I would recommend running a search in foundation director online who gives toe arts in new jersey, who gives to food banks in southern california or in one particular neighborhood in los angeles. Then you’re going to ask yourself, do you know any of these trustees, officers and donors ? You know any of the employees of these family foundation’s ? If you’re using our product, i’m going to recommend you turn your linkedin account on there’s. No excuse for any of us these days not to have over five hundred people we know unlinked in if you’re using our product and you have your linkedin account turned on. You will know immediately if you know where you know somebody who can introduce you to somebody on the board of one of these family foundations. So it’s about who you know it’s about targeting your research correctly. I came with paper today. Just let me tell you chan’s like over one hundred tips on how to get to know these family give you after eight years doing let me give you little host inside the podcast inside tip guests never read the papers, they’re green. You see how many time you know the stuff off the top of your head ? You see how many times you referred to the paper xero thinking it just a little podcaster protect don’t worry if your guests bring paper because they’re not gonna look at it so but if it’s comforting, i know it’s comforting, it’s reassuring, right ? I do biographical histories on people who run foundations. I look at their family members, i find out who’s i’m dealing with. I try to look a philanthropic track records so by the time i’m going toe and i don’t really recommend i’m not supposed to recommend family foundations who i know, like seven would be seventy five percent great prospects to you. But i lied you most of the way there. So you have to do enough research and the family, the family members, the rest of the trustees and officers you have to know whether or not you fit into their philanthropic pattern of giving so let’s, keep going. Stop that’s abila ok, ok, stuart, do you get do you get you still get ah lot of enquiries, even though even though you are you contributed only to pre selected organizations, you still get increase that are off topic and not pre selected things come in over the transom all of the time. People reach out all of the time and actually just back-up to what susan was saying, i would rather than go to family members that we get we’re staffed foundation on the only staff member if there’s a staff person always trying to get to the south person rather than two trustees, if there is no step trust using only choice. But i would suggest that the point of entry is other granted then you have a relationship with any of the london organizations of a given family foundation reach out to them and say, hey, what can you tell me about the marron got family foundation or this guy ? Stuart from i would say everything that hasn’t come in through family member is come in two other grantee partners and because our current granted partners and because we have really nice relationships and ongoing relationships with the r grantee partners when danielle reaches out to me and says, and she’s done it many, many times, and many are you saying, i don’t know, i’m not i’m not saying okay now, it’s really welcome because she’s, a practitioner she’s the expert, are not. I learned a thing or two or three about youth development practices over the years, but i’m not the one doing the work, danielle and her colleagues of the ones doing the work and because daniel and i will talk more about this have a very sort of even planed relationship when she reaches out no, when she reaches out to me and says, hey, there’s, this group doing great work, i think you’ll enjoy them. Ilsen and as long as there’s something, but i see is a potential fit. It’s. Very easy to have coffee with somebody. It’s very easy to have a phone conversation with somebody if i get something totally over the transom but doesn’t have daniel’s name or other grantee partners and i can think of three or four off the top of my head have done this and we’ve gone on to fund their organizations. But if i get a a cold inquiry, if it’s something that’s a bit, i will respond and say, this is what we do it to tease it out a little bit more. Okay, we’re goingto daniel insect. But what ? What what’s ? Your advice for making that cold inquiry. Just be direct on this. A real pet peeve of mine when i was talking about this earlier is folks might reach out to me from my previous life at bergen community foundation, where i found the arts programs. It was a dept, very different granting partner pool. Then it will be. Oh, hey, stuart would love to get together with you said rather thin that and these are folks who i haven’t heard from years and it’s like oh, is it about the mary got family foundation. Because if it is, this is what we find see a fit with what you’re doing if i’m all let me know when i’d love to get together and invariably i never hear from those people again. All right, so you prefer honesty ? Stuart love to get together, you with you to talk about our work and how i think how i think it fits with marren ghosh self-funding programming, even if we end up not funding something or something’s not right quite the right fit. It’s a learning opportunity for me knowledge is power, the more i know about what’s out there, the better grantmaker i’m going to be and don’t pretend that you want to ask about how are you what’s going on in your life don’t want to talk about grantmaking i’m here to talk about and i’m here to find the right partnerships us okay ? All right, danielle, your advice about now she’s got one story. I’m gonna give you a chance to practice the phrase quite the right that you stumbled on that. So quite the right. Quite the right. You want to practice that one ? Quite the right. Yeah, the phrase when you were talking is what i say quite the right you tried. You tried twice quite right there. You okay ? Um, okay. Advice on honesty. I’m sure you agree with stuart, right ? Honesty is honesty’s best be straight forward. But how about the well, let’s let’s talk about that ? This is an ideal opportunity that those first couple of enquiries that you you approach stuart, you know, or others, you know, what’s your advice to your peers. Well, honesty, transparency number one. If you’re working in an organization, whether you’re the executive director in some sort of ah, you know fund-raising role you should believe very strongly in what you’re doing so that’s going to come through. And i think that’s always served me well in any role that i’ve been in when i’m selling so to speak and organization or the work of an organisation, if i don’t believe in it it’s going to sound inauthentic and no matter how much you try, people will be a listening that that’s number one but number two absolutely be directing the honest i think one of the first things that i learned early on is a professional in non-profit sector and i’ve had roles in development and in program, which often at small to midsize non-profits also means fund-raising is recognizing that if you’re talking to someone who works at the foundation of family foundation or otherwise, their job is to provide funding right ? So don’t worry about the act they’re used to it that’s their job. So get get over without you were nothing seriously that’s excellent. Yeah, so it’s a little a little more. You’re the ones doing the work it’s our jobs to fund that work canto identify that work and, uh, i welcome the opportunity to learn now, obviously everything’s, not a fit, but again, that knowledge is power and we get to approach our workers is not sound like a shameless commercial, but we approach our work with a profound respect for what you’re doing and really try to keep the hoop jumping, which is unfortunately endemic to the foundation application process. We keep that to a really minimum, then we replace it with an ongoing relationship alive and what i’m working with, what we call jen to the four daughters who each have a relatively small grantmaking pool that initially i worked very closely with them on it now are is now it’s been five years there. They really been wonderful students and have very decided opinions about what they want to do. So it’s a little bit less hands on. But my main buy-in piece of wisdom, if you will to impart to them is the relationship begins with it. It’s an ongoing relationship that is a small family foundation. It’s my job to maintain that relationship and bring in the family members as appropriate. And the family members are very, very interested in becoming part bilich let’s. See fremery questions, uh, any, uh, any livestream questions, anything ? No direct questions from the live stream, but we do have some good comments. Someone says outstanding tip to talk to donis that are already funded and another comments or here is shot. The person with three organizations and parental thanks, mom way have amy latto tourists. Rios, who thinks what things also is going to sing this’s an unbelievable resource. Thank you so much. So keep these candid tips. All right, we have we have a question weighted mike to come to you, please. Thank you. This is wonderful, and i have two questions if i may start with one and then we’ll see if there’s other very egalitarian on non-profit radio. All right, if that’s the case that you have a preference in the initial outreach, email or phone zoho email always always you cast the second that was an easy one got a second one is and this is i was a bit of a surprise of going to a current funding because i’ve always taken had the fear that if i introduce somebody else to a thunder there’s a finite amount of money am i eating into the part that i’m trying to get me going on the road ? A my introducing you to my competition ? Yes, we’re in a funny position that we’re not endowment based. If we were endowment based, i could say that we’re spending three point or one too million dollars this year, not a penny over. We’re not the actually very proud of the fact that when i joined the foundation five years ago at exactly this time of year, so it was towards the end of the county you’re on warren a counter year e-giving was about one point six million. Basically, my job is to go is to foster these relationships and port back to the family about the cool stuff the champion. And i report back to the family and a very sophisticated way, their texts and semi blurry photographs that i take with my cell phone and forward on and relatively riel time about the cool stuff that’s happening. There’s so much cool stuff happening. So, uh, so i guess it would it would depend on the foundation then if if they weren’t endowment based foundation, they had they had a capt spend each year. Yes. Then you would be introducing. You’re so it’s gonna depend on the mention my perspective. So do the research again. You’d be able to tell that by doing your research, what type of condition is it also ? Is tio the point of this discussion ? It is all about the relationship. So i’ve done that with stuart because i knew that that that’s not going to jeopardise my relationship with him or the funding that i had secured from america family foundation. I knew that because we have this equal kind of relationship where i’m able tto have those conversations with him ? There are other foundations where i would never have thought tio introduce someone else as a potential grantmaking or someone and that also is very discreet that, as you all know, we can’t do our work without partners. And so anyone that i have introduced as a potential of interest, it would be someone who may have supported enhanced the work that they were funding, which i thought is an important point to make. And and i would just like to clarify, we’ve come to the figure of three during half million dollars that’s something that we’re very comfortable with, so i don’t want teo present this is like, oh, yeah, send me everything where we want to review everything out there because the troopers were comfortable in the three, three and a half million dollar level, but because it’s, not endowment based there’s always room for another twenty five thousand dollar grant here, there is there room for another fifty twenty five thousand dollar grants ? Of course not, but within the the goose ish budget that were working within, uh, we’re comfortable with that amount, but it’s us somewhere. Okay, well, we can take more questions. 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Ah, stewart stewart said, well, before we started off camera off mike were in residence, i like that i love eleven non-profit radio in residence at the foundation center, you can come back for next week. We’re gonna be talking about data driven decision making, and our foundation center expert is going to be graced, sato and if you’re in the audience here, you could meet grace because she’s in the back she’s going to be seeing me with us next. Next ride a as we wrap up, but so grateful to the foundation center for having non-profit radio in residence here for the month. I love it. Thank you. And, uh, special shout out against susan, who was so willing to work with me since january to get this done. Thank you. Ok, we’re going back going back to our panel. Susan sure. Oma she’s, the social sector librarian, senior social sector library. Don’t cut it short. Been here since nineteen ninety five that’s. Susan ? Sure. Oma and stuart post, executive director of the marriage got family foundation and danielle jindo, executive director at reed alliance. Okay, then. You know, we were with you. We’re talking about breaking the ice during the research, making the recommendations. What other advice do you have for your peers ? Um, that i mention tenacity ? Many, many stewart said many, many, many right two nations oh, tenacious d that’s tio way. I’m, you know, the kind of person. And i think in order to be a fundraiser, you have to be the kind of person that here’s no and things no right now, but yes, later or no right now tell me how it could be a letting us later. I’m i would just caution everyone. Teo, you know, who’s making and ask if karen no do not get discouraged. It’s an important relationship to start. And even if you do get to know, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t stop communicating altogether, just like stuart had mentioned, you know ? He’s gotten, you know, folks who have reached out and said, oh, you know, we’re interested in talking with you about such a such a program but doesn’t entirely fit with what the parameters are, what his priorities are at this point on dh, then that’s it, they disappear into the either there isn’t even any follow-up and so to the exciting, strange and things can change, and to the extent you could continue to keep folks in the loop, i’m i’m a big believer in letting folks know what the news is put them on your mailing list, make sure they’re invited to things, even if it’s slightly outside the scope of what they might be interested in doing or supporting or attending, let them decide, but they will never know unless you tell them danielle that’s consistent with individual fund-raising too, you know when when you approach someone, you’ve asked someone for a gift, maybe you ask them for fifty thousand dollars and they gave you five thousand dollars. That doesn’t mean you cut them off or even if you, whatever you ask them for, they give you nothing. You know, i say clients six knows, and we’re halfway to her, yes, so that tenacity applies to your individual fund-raising itt’s parallel. If we’re talking about a family foundation or any institution no doesn’t mean no forever is stuart is suggesting and you still keep talking to people, you know you don’t you haven’t you don’t cut off your individual donors when they’ve turned you down don’t cut off your institution! I would say that relation if you’re the kind of person that is a social person and you like to build relationships and you like to keep up contact with boats and you’re good at keeping up your network that’s a natural right that will naturally fit within the scope of what you normally dio and if your offensive and you’re believing, believe very strongly what you’re promoting and that’s also a natural that’s not too big of a list and that’s what it takes to really not down some doors and genuinely thanking people can work wonders in another hat on the board chair of an organisation and somebody that we didn’t know from. Adam gave a very nice gift of ten thousand dollars. That’s, let’s, shout it out! Brooklyn community bail fund bruckmann gdpr she’d given ten thousand dollars and got the pro forma. Thank you so much. But it was somebody that we didn’t know who it wass so was board chair. I sent a hand written note or an e mail i get which say, very personal. We really appreciate this. And stuart posterboard chair. She reached out the executive director and i had coffee with her. She had given a cheque to a similar organization where she only got the pro forma uh, thank you. It turned out that we got another ninety thousand dollars. It was. And she was so, uh, touched by our having made that additional outreach. People want to people want to be thanked, and people want to be thanked genuinely. And in this hearkens back to what we were talking about earlier, these air all about relationships. People who work in foundations are relationships are people. People who support your organizations are people. And everybody wants to be recognized, not in us. It’s, miami sick advomatic way, but in a genuine pay, we really appreciate your help. Then that happens relatively rarely. And it doesn’t matter the size of the gift either. I think, you know. It’s important to remember that you know, if you have especially family foundation’s individuals that are supporting your work, he might have some of the level of five thousand whether it’s because that’s just the level that they fundez that’s what they can do with that time or fifty thousand, because that’s, what they could do with that time, each one is important to you being able to accomplish your goals and so a genuine and invite many invites us possible the things that they might like to see an invite to an event where you khun, simply just celebrate with them, or showcase some of the other work that you do, even if it’s not directly related to what they were supporting. Because that’s part of the relationship building you want them, tio feel like they’re part of your extended family and that’s how i think about the work that we do in the relationships we have your family, it’s, an extended family, we couldn’t do what we do without that support. And could you talk ? I’m taking over your job. You another anarchist, two anarchists and yes, could you talk about what ? The initial funding relationship, the genesis ? Of your initial interaction with the marron got family foundation was how that got started and how it led from organization organization to maybe another organization. Morning. Yes. So if i remember correctly, i believe the the executive director of an organization that i had worked at previously had been on the board with stephen arika of of another organization, they served on the board of directors of another organization reaching out to a trustee, right, and just threw that relationship building learns that he had a family foundation of what some of his interest may have been and invited him to events invited him to events to meet the constituents, the program that we thought he’d be interested in funding, and he was very was taken by it was actually young men’s responsible fatherhood program, and we had a number of the young men from that program at our annual gala that year and invited him to meet with him, and he talked to them. They had a very intimate conversation. I think that was the only reason why he was there. He is a very mission driven person. Andi was very impressed. And from there, i think stuart and i, we probably took it over in cash. We talked about the details you observe. I mean, one of the things that i do love about working with stuart and them arika foundation is he means it when he says that they are very interested in how the program runs and what’s actually happening on the ground. So the questions that stewart asked and the observations that he made on the site visits prior to funding the program and after the program has been funded, we’re not only, you know, helpful, but but also insightful. You know, they he understood enough about what makes the program work that they were helping us think further down the road about how to make it even better. Samuel, i’m gonna stop because you made me think of something that thiss was better. Do you think is stuart post story post non-profit radio ? You’ll see a rebranding next week, so come back to stewart post non-profit radio. We’ll have to scrap this backdrop. It will just exit out. If you have trouble, if things are not going, are we going the way we anticipate they were in the program that’s that your funding, uh what’s your advice tell me as soon as we know we’re waiting stuff happens, then we understand that stuff happens and, uh, if anything that’s going to make me respect in organization more and make stephen my boss respect an organization more because there’s, that level of trust the we can see, you know, this didn’t come out the way we thought it would be, and i’ll not infrequently have gotten emails from people saying, no, could we slightly redirect this ? Because what we thought wasn’t working, i mean, a proposal is a best guess, and sometimes best guesses go great, and sometimes they don’t and that’s fine, i mean, not everything is going to be ah, home runs, but by having, you know, that ongoing relationship where there’s trust which there’s comfort, and it also helps that i’m a staff person, it’s you know, i can get into weeds much more frequently than the family members who have their own lives and their own jobs in their own careers, and they’re busy people. So i can’t it’s my job, though, to get into those having those conversations and to be bringing in the family as appropriate. And of course, i’m always bringing family because it’s not my money let’s make something explicit, which is, you know, if you’re not honest and you try to conceal it, you’re going down a rabbit hole that is only going to be it’s going to be discovered. It’s going to be it’s going to be disaster in a crisis versus you’ve got a problem ? Uh, share it with your with your partner with your with your we’re partners in this the relationship ? Share it big frustration of doing philanthropy and philanthropy is a great gig, it’s a wonderful, wonderful privilege to get to do this work to go into communities that aren’t my own. Teo. Steve, the exciting things that are happening all over new york city, but i actually just are just totally be disarmed don’t be deceitful and dishonest. Yes, yeah. It’s, it’s a good thing i’ll help you through stewart. I know you do. I guess i shouldn’t be thinking you understand ? Uh, don’t don’t be dishonored. That’s what ? I think that also ties. Back to the other point that i made before in a couple of times, which is the authenticity, right ? The transparency if you believe that what you’re doing is meaningful, if you know that you’re doing the best job possible, the work we do is really hard and it’s our job also to to relay what some of those honest, real challenges are two funders too, so that they understand what you’re up against. And that means that the best guests that you propose which i love that sometimes doesn’t always come to fruition in the timeline that you imagined or you projected and having the conversation, the relationship is important to making sure that you maintain that trust and continue that i want to see if we have looks like you have some questions i have tio um okay, we have questions online, too. Awesome. Okay, william, you gotta go live. I mean, go go broad. Would you wanted ? Stuart said the word philanthropy. Give us the wide shot, please. Uh, exactly. Introduce the bear over here. I got sick. I got questions about our bear last week a few people asked what’s the bear in the corner. That’s phil. Phil, answer b, i believe, is that’s the foundation. So that is not my i wish that was my gig. Mike. My saying it’s. Not my bit. I do stand up. Comedy. Philanthropy is not my bit. Uh, but that’s phil in the corner. Well, welcome, phil. Uh, okay, so we have a couple of let’s go online, right ? Let’s, do an online question. You got something on your right ? Our question online is how can a non-profit discover whether a family foundation has a staff or if it’s on ly run by family members and trustees let’s give out to susan with that a plant ? Do we have the name of the organization without question ? Okay, person out who that was pen parenthesis again. Hoyle devoted to foundation center resource is, by the way. Yeah. Okay. So the question, wass when you’re researching foundations and you think you’re dealing with the family foundation, how do you find out if their staff members ? All right. So if you were using my favorite tool, which is foundation directory online professional and i have to put a plug in here for another tool that we produce that you can use free. Of charge at any of our funding information network partners foundation maps, though. So for those of you who do not like to read text ah, foundation maps is is a mapping tool that will literally show you who’s giving money to brooklyn or who’s giving money to south florida. But any rate you’re going to use foundation directory online for professional and the profile that we provide to you will tell you who the top staff members are. If and i also double check myself, i will go to a tax return and i arrest nine, ninety pf pf standing for private foundations, and i will check that tax return to see if it says there are no hired help on the on the team or if there is an executive director and i forgot to pick it up in our fto profile, that tax return is going to tell me who the top hired help is. It will give me their name and their job title so that’s one easy way to figure out if they have staff members of the foundation directory, online foundation directory online professional you and the nine, ninety and the nine, ninety nine. Ninety piela in case they don’t have a website, what if there’s a website it makes, you know, part of your research easier ? We know large percentage don’t have websites. All right, now we’re going to we’re going to continue, uh, ninety percent eliminations. Hyre yes. Just a minute. Wait for the microphone. Please wait for the microphone, please. There we go. First of all, i am very happy to see that this dahna treyz thiss uh, i i’m coming to a foundation center for a long time and nice sabat buy-in michael, i think susan salama. Uh, you see, sandy destroyed everything and it’s very hard. Tto re establish it and continuous what we like to do the most. And susan was helping us tow right. And my question off. Come. So, stewart, right. Ah, my agency with serving quinton brooklyn russian community. Eso can they come to you to see people support ? Well, let’s not even put stuart on the spot. Why don’t you talk privately after ? Okay, let’s, not let’s. Not even put to do it on the spot on and answer that dancer that question and then let’s, you want to say something ? Something, uh even though seventy seven point i learnt this. Today, seventy seven percent of private foundations don’t accept unsolicited requests, and we are among that seventy seven percent. But on our website, and we do have a website. I very, very intentionally put my email address on the website because people might want to reach out and again, things have come in over the transom all the time. And unless something is just plainly a dear occupant sales pitch on how i can raise more money, not enough fund-raising organization. If it’s a legitimate, uh, funding request, i’m going to respond to that very gracious let’s. Go in the back, ma’am. Yes. Say you find out that through research that one of your board members does have a contact with the board of the foundation, which you want to apply, what is the best way ? The leverage that contact ? If you’re i can only speak for our foundation and again, i feel if there’s a staff it’s always appropriate to go through the staff first, and there might almost be a sense that what you’re trying to cut in line ahead of where you should be, the appropriate, uh, chain of communications is go to the staff, and i wonder if you go to a bored person if that might, you know, screw it, bite you in the butt. All right, so we get some different we’re getting some different answers on i just wanted to assure you from the foundation center perspective, if you take any of her classes on fund-raising that is one of the things we’re definitely going to tell you that when you were having one of your board members, go bug the program, officer’s, head to another boardmember you have to cancel your boardmember to be very careful in their conversation with the foundation’s board, so if if they have paid staff like program officers, that the program officer doesn’t feel like you’ve gone above their head, so if you’re dealing with foundation that has very direct application procedures, just follow them and use that board contact, you know lightly. You don’t wantto take anybody, all right ? Actually, uh, staff should be looked at is a firewall. The reason why family foundation often times wants a staff person is to present this to prevent being bombarded with requests and having potentially uncomfortable conversations with me. It’s never going to be an uncomfortable conversation. Because it’s my job, it’s where you’re a straight shooter, it’s either potential fit. Tell me more that’s. Not at all what we do. Good luck with your fund-raising every else online ? Yes. Okay. From the big children’s foundation is asking if you are reaching out to a foundation for the first time and you discover there is a fit in mission and in funding focus. Is there a right amount to ask for susan ? Okay, so if that person was dealing with me in one of my conversations, i would ask them if they had done their research. Have they use foundation directory online ? Professional toe. Look at the size of grant paid out to non-profits that do what they do. That’s going. You always have to make the right. Ask so. We need thio essentially go through the last. Three years of the grantspace list of that foundation and try to figure out what the amount size is going to non-profits that air in your type of category and size range that the research is going to help you with that ? Okay, i would. Argh! You don’t talk about money at all. Have the conversation first to see if it’s a fit never send an uncertain with us. I don’t want to get a letter of inquiry, and to me that feels like someone who hasn’t really done their homework. I’m much more receptive, receptive to hey, we do this, you do this. Could we meet for coffee ? Could we set up a phone call ? Could we get together to talk about it ? And in the conversation i can talk about the kind of things we like to do with our grants and hear about what your needs are and then have that conversation to see if it’s a fit. But when i get just a letter of inquiry than unsolicited, an unsolicited letter of inquiry it’s very rare, that that’s a fit because they never took the time to have that conversation, which i’m very there’s, no relationship. Way spent all this time talking about relationships on dh, right out of the box. You’re asking me for money. Yeah, nice to meet you. You know, we have fifty thousand dollars, but with the odds that that’s going to succeed. But if somebody reached out and said, i’d love to sit down to talk to you about the potential of getting a grant from you, that’s, totally way, we have more questions. Let’s, go over here. This question is both for daniel and for stuart. So you kind of spoke about continuing that relationship even if you get a no response. And i was curious in your experiences if it would ever be appropriate to kind of approach of family foundation and say, you know, this isn’t a great fit, but could you recommend other foundations that you might know of that might be a good fit ? Is that kind of a conversation that one ? May i ask a question ? Okay, i’m going to actually, just we’re running a little bit at a time and a lot of questions, so, danielle, you want to take that say, yes, i asked that question all the time of any thunder, and stuart and stuart is nodding way. Stuart is not your only what ? Listening to the audio story there aren’t really big on value added and that’s what i’m trying to do, but let’s go over here right up front. Use your mic like the previous question, but if a fan dish of the foundation says that, give a onetime grant only you’re talking about a relationship. Should we just forget about that that’s a great question, it says one time only on you got funded. What would ? What would you do ? Down from my perspective ? I’m the kind of person i was feel like someone’s, always in the extended family, so you don’t know where that relationship is going to lead. So just like her questions, they might recommend someone else’s consisting that funding. They can connect another partners they can connect to the other other grant. So if you’re going tio reach out to them again, would you ? Well, i was trying to make sure that you could, like, use your relationship and asked them, you know, it’s been about two or three years since you funded us. I know you’re one time. Could we propose a different program ? Would that be a better fit ? Or would you mind if we, you know, do you think it would be a good idea for us to submit for the same programming again ? We have this gap on and then leave it up to them to say now that’s not gonna work, they’re still in your extended family don’t know where it’s going really fund-raising people have an honest conversation with them there. We just have time for one more question. You got your shot, let’s. See if there’s anybody else ? Anybody okay, give him the second third. This is third question because you had to in the first time, second time. Third question. What bonus has been great ? Very quick question. I want to make sure i have clarity on this that you’re saying my phone call to you to introduce myself actually is instead of an l a y. So if you like what we do, we would jump right to the proposal stage, and i’m saying that correctly, we’d be having a ponderous way we just had. Daniel started her drop with two months ago, and i knew that i would hear from her. I knew that she was moving on her last gig, and this was the sex. She went from the initial organization to a second organization, and we were one of the first funders, and it was a real home run, and we were extraordinarily proud of a program that we really help too kick up to kick off, and i’m so very riel sort of pride of ownership, if you will and i we had a relationship, and i knew that i would be hearing from danielle and from what i had heard about the organisation, it didn’t sound like it was a bit for us, frankly, but i this is a friend, this is somebody who i like. I’m not going, not somebody who i can say, no, i won’t meet with you. Of course, we met with her, but as we talked, it was the rial sort of creativity off over coffee, and i wrote ridden my bike jars and shorts and a t shirt, and when it’s informant like that, you could just have a really relaxed conversation in brooklyn and, you know, in brooklyn and queens, and it was an enormously sort of creative, fun conversation where i quickly picked up on what daniels needs were, and she understood what are sort of sweet spot is, and i really think there’s a great grant for us to help develop college access program among the high school kids we’re currently getting pain, it’s, all i have to stop you there, it’s all the relationship it’s also it’s, a relation having an honest kind, there’s a take away, that’s it. Okay, it’s, time for the give away, get your phone, get your phone, whether of course, live stream or here in the audience, you’re getting you’re getting a copy of this book. Braided threads rated threads. 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First five people to text, they’re gonna win and you text family, family, that’s it. Ok, we’re moving on next week, its foundation center month on not proper radio. We’re gonna wrap it up with grant decision making, using disaster philanthropy as our example will find out what the ingredients are and how the sausage gets made inside. Foundations join me again in thanking our panel for today, susan, sure, oma, stuart post and danielle jindo. Awesome. Thank you very much. If you missed any part of today’s show, i beseech you, find it on tony martignetti dot com. We’re sponsored by pursuing online tools for small and midsize non-profits data driven and technology enabled. Tony dahna slash pursuing capital p with your c p a guiding you beyond the numbers waiting to cps dot com bye tello’s, credit card and payment processing. 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