Cultivating private sources of income can bring numerous benefits to your organisation. Aside from money, corporate partnerships can help build your organisational profile and networks, introduce skilled professional volunteers and great new board members to your organisation. However, the needs of a corporate partner are quite different from those of a trust, foundation or a public funder. What do you need to know and prepare for to build and then maintain a great corporate partnership? Drawing on our own experiences as nonprofit leaders working with these kinds of partnerships in the UK and US, we’ll explore their benefits and potential pitfalls.

What you will learn:

Corporate Philanthropy

* types of corporate partnerships that are possible

* identifying and cultivating the right partnerships

* pitching to potential corporate partners (We will provide an exercise in the workshop that will help you to structure your pitch. Those who would like to try it out in the session can receive feedback, but you can also send us the notes for your pitch after the session and receive feedback via email instead.)

* what corporate partnerships look like post Covid and in the current economic climate