Building Your Major Grants Portfolio- RECORDING

Select a price
major grants
Recorded on 04.21.26
Description:

You can't treat a $25,000 foundation grant the same way you treat a $250,000 investment. Yet it’s easy to do exactly that.

Too often, grant professionals spread equal effort across vastly different opportunities. Teams chase dozens of opportunities without clear criteria, and many are still relying on an outdated approach built around responding to open grant applications, even as more major funders prioritize relationships over paperwork. The result? Exhaustion without proportional return.

During this webinar, Susan Schaefer will introduce you to a portfolio-based approach to major grants, one that mirrors the strategy long used in major gifts fundraising. She’ll walk you through how to identify your most promising foundation prospects and create workflows that reflect their true importance, so you can focus your energy where it delivers the highest impact.

You’ll learn how to:
  • define what “major grant” means within your organization’s specific context;
  • conduct a portfolio analysis to prioritize the funders that warrant sustained effort;
  • allocate your time strategically to increase efficiency and predictability; and, 
  • create a 90-day implementation plan to launch your major grants portfolio.
Who should attend:

This session is ideal for development directors, grant seekers, and nonprofit executives who have secured some foundation funding already and are ready to work more intentionally.

After the webinar, you’ll receive:
  • slides and handouts; and,
  • a link to the webinar recording.
90 Minutes

Susan Schaefer

Susan Schaefer helps nonprofit leaders fund their priorities through major private grants. She is an author, speaker, and consultant whose firm, Resource Partners, builds clients’ in-house capacity to secure their largest, most impactful foundation and corporate grants.

She has written and contributed to multiple books for the sector and has taught fund development at Johns Hopkins University.

Susan writes a monthly series of articles called Major Grants.

Susan Schaefer