Segal Family
Foundation has offered HFL an amazing opportunity to broaden our fund raising
capacity. SFF has introduced us to Jane Geever, Chairman and founder of J.C.
Geever, Inc., a consulting firm that seeks to assist “not-for-profit institutions
(in) assessing and mastering fundraising challenges” by guiding us through the
grant writing maze.
SFF is generously sponsoring us in a ten week fully interactive program
which will cover the grantwriting and research processes. We have been given
access to a limited subscription to the Foundation Directory Online
Professional which allows us to
access over 2 million records in their Grants database.
Although Jo Ann and I have a great deal of
work ahead of us, we are grateful for the opportunity to increase our knowledge
and the potential to bring financial gains to our HFL charities without having
to spend a penny of your hard earned donations. Thank you, Segal Family, for
absorbing these costs!
For our first proposal, we have chosen to research
and write a grant for TVEP’s ‘Youth Perpetrator Program’. Currently there is no remedial program in South Africa
for young boys who have committed sexual offenses. Hope for Limpopo, Inc would like to find and write a grant that
would support an 8 week pilot program to teach and redirect these young 13-17
yr old offenders. SFF and Jane Geever will lead us through this lengthy process.
Keep your fingers
crossed for a profitable return on our efforts and we will keep you posted.
