We do not currently have a prioritized pipeline of private foundations and corporate funders aligned with Mommy’s Heart, Inc.’s mission and programs. Without a researched, ranked prospect list, we lack clear, actionable funding opportunities to pursue as we expand capacity, hire essential staff, and build sustainable support for our work.
We are looking for a volunteer with experience in grant writing and funding prospect research to develop a prioritized pipeline of foundation and corporate funding prospects. The volunteer will:
- Review Mommy’s Heart’s mission, programs, populations served, geographic focus, funding needs, and organizational goals to inform prospect selection.
- Research private, family, and community foundations whose priorities align with domestic violence services, legal access, family-court reform, mental health, supervised visitation, economic empowerment, children, and family stability.
- Research corporate foundations and corporate giving programs aligned with our work.
- Identify approximately 40 qualified foundation and corporate funding prospects.
- Create a prospect spreadsheet documenting each funder’s name, website, publicly available contact information, funding priorities, geographic focus, eligibility requirements, typical award amounts when available, application process, deadlines or funding cycles, and relevant restrictions.
- Identify program officers, community-relations representatives, corporate social-responsibility contacts, or other appropriate entry points when publicly available.
- Evaluate and rank prospects according to mission alignment, eligibility, funding potential, accessibility, and application timing.
- Recommend a next step for each priority prospect, such as requesting an introductory meeting, submitting a letter of inquiry, monitoring an upcoming funding cycle, or preparing an application.
