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Foundation Relations provides multiple services
for senior officers, deans, faculty, administrators, and researchers.
For those projects that have been designated as institutional priorities
by the president, the provost, or a deans we can:
- Work to develop a project from idea to fundable program.
- Conduct prospect research on foundations that are potential
matches for a project.
- Contribute to identifying relevant program officers at foundations
and facilitate contact with them.
- Provide background information on the history of MIT's relationship
with specific foundations and devise strategies for approaching
them.
- Travel to meet foundation representatives.
- Provide assistance in editing and drafting proposals.
- Raise awareness of a project's funding needs among other Resource
Development staff on campus e.g., Office of Corporate Relations,
Office of Leadership Giving, etc.
- Connect those who are doing similar or related work on campus
and brainstorm about ways to collaborate with others on related
projects.
- Maintain contact with foundations, both during and after the
grant-making cycle, and let administrators and faculty know of
new developments regarding a proposal.
In other situations, we can:
- Give an overview of foundation fundraising and information about
recent news and trends in grant-making.
- Provide guidance on the print, CD, and online resources available
in becoming familiar with private foundations.
- Inform when there are requests for proposals (RFPs) from foundations
in a relevant field.
- Review and provide feedback on proposals to foundations.
- Assist with the procedures involved in submitting a proposal,
including the submission of required supporting institutional
documents.
- Track information about an award, provide reminders when a report
is due, and provide advice with acknowledgement letters.
- Share information about foundations we have researched and/or
visited.
In each of these instances, Foundation Relations staff work closely with School Development
Officers (SDOs), who have three primary roles: assist the deans of
MIT’s schools with all of their resource development activities;
manage relationships with and cultivate gifts from major donors interested
in supporting specific school-based initiatives; and serve as liaisons
from each of the schools to all units of central Resource Development,
including the Offices of Leadership Giving, Planned Giving, Corporate
Relations, and Foundation Relations. SDOs can play an especially helpful role in
devising strategies for addressing the funding priorities of schools
and individual departments.
If you would like more information about the foundation fundraising
process, we suggest that you first contact your school development
officer (SDO) to discuss your project before contacting one of the
Foundation Relations associate directors to schedule an appointment.
For general questions, please contact Georgia Santander, at (617) 253-1433 or georgia@mit.edu.
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