Special Foundation Funding Tips Make your first contact as strong as possible. If it is written, keep it short, to the point and as compelling as possible. Foundations are generally interested in investing in people and organizations, not just in problems. They are willing to be flexible about amounts if they have confidence in the organization.
Personal contact is an important, often essential, part of the process.
Be prepared at the outset for a lot of rejection. If you get a rejection letter, contact the foundation to ask what was wrong with the proposal. Often it may be a question of correcting only one aspect and resubmitting it. Most applicants receive a rejection the first time they apply to a foundation. More win the second time than the first.