Three Quick Things

Happy March! Sending Lent and Ramadan blessings to all who celebrate. I'll have a longer post to share next week, but I wanted to catch everybody with a few brief things before I rush out the door for Ash Wednesday Mass.

1. Prospect Research workshop this Saturday! Along with the usual tricks up my sleeve, we'll be going through two huge AirTable databases I was sent in the fall which feature hundreds of progressive grantmaking and funding organizations you can sort by geographic area, social need, type of funding, and more. When we did this last month, everyone in the class came away with between two and four viable new grant prospects that were new to them. If you're facing a cut in federal funding because of your DEI work, this might help generate some new potential options to shore up that gap.

March Prospect Research Workshop

Hands-on Zoom workshop to help 8th House members learn the basics of prospect research and how to look for which grants to apply for. Saturday, March 8th, 10 am - 1 pm Pacific. $200 per person, 50% discount for South Sister Cohort members.

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2. If you missed the last email, I'm finally getting my Grants 101 class presentation from last summer converted into little video modules. The intro is available for everyone; the rest of the series will go out to paid newsletter subscribers as a member benefit, with another one on deck for next week!

3. Tragically, this is for Oregon nonprofits only, but it was too good not to share, and it's possible that your state might have something similar available. I was sent this by a client the other day and I'm sharing it far and wide. The Federal Readiness and Leverage Fund is an Oregon state initiative designed to help organizations access federal funds in a simpler and more streamlined way, and they're offering emergency support for anyone who has been impacted by unexpected federal funding changes. If you or someone you know just got screwed by a freeze or cut to vital federal dollars, you can submit a request here. It goes to a consulting firm who is working to pull together a community of funders to build a pool of resources to give out emergency grants. They can't make any promises yet about how many or how much, but right now they're just trying to get a sense of the scale of the damage. If that's you, please consider filling out the form and sharing it with anyone else you know who is in the same boat; it may become a really useful tool to prod private donors and foundations into greater action once they see how many services or organizations the state is on the cusp of losing.

More soon! Take care, everyone!