Annual Conference for Corporate and Foundation Relations Officers 2025
New York, NY |
Join us in New York to hear directly from corporate and foundation pros regarding what they consider to be key drivers in forming partnerships. Build your skill base in writing successful proposals, researching prospects, and developing effective stewardship efforts. Develop a network of contacts from across the CFR community while expanding your knowledge of current and possible future trends in CFR funding.
This annual event brings together more than 300 development professionals, grant writers, officers and prospect researchers to engage in conversation about the challenges in securing external support for our institutions. Join us in May for a program that will focus on strategies that will work for your institution.
This annual event brings together more than 300 development professionals, grant writers, officers and prospect researchers to engage in conversation about the challenges in securing external support for our institutions. Join us in May for a program that will focus on strategies that will work for your institution.
Call for Session Proposal! Deadline to submit proposals: October 18, 2024
Submit Proposal
2024’s Program Included These Foundation and Corporate Representatives:
- Amazon Web Services
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Council on Library and Information Resources
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
- Ford Motor Company Fund
- Henry Luce Foundation
- HHMI
- Inside Philanthropy
- Lever for Change
- MacArthur Foundation
- Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
- Meta
- Microsoft Education
- New America
- Novartis
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- Rita Allen Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Science Philanthropy Alliance
- Sloan Foundation
- The Kresge Foundation
- Check back to see 2025’s Foundation and Corporate Representatives
2024’s Program Included Leaders From These Institutions:
- BWF Fundraising Consulting Firm
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Cornell University
- Council on Library and Information Resources
- Duke University
- Emory University
- George Mason University
- George Mason University Foundation Inc.
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Goucher College
- Indiana University
- Johns Hopkins University & Medicine
- Lafayette College
- MIT
- New America
- Northwestern University
- San Jose State University
- The Ohio State University
- UMass Chan Medical School
- University of Chicago
- University of Florida
- University of Maryland Baltimore
- University of Maryland School of Medicine
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Miami
- University of Miami Medical Development
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- Washington University in St. Louis
- William & Mary
- Check back to see 2025’s Institutions
Learning Objectives
- Define the core competencies needed to write successful proposals and research prospects
- Demonstrate organizational change strategies to champion your stewardship efforts
- Analyze data and research regarding current and future trends in corporate and foundation relations funding
- Brainstorm strategizes on how to build a network of corporate and foundation professionals
Who Should Attend
- Development professionals—at any level of experience—who are responsible for securing external support from corporations and foundations for educational institutions
- Assistant, associate and directors of corporate and/or foundation relations
- Grant writers and officers who work primarily with non-government solicitations
- Prospect researchers who work to support corporate and/or foundation fundraising efforts from across their campus
- Directors of development for schools/units who routinely seek corporate sponsorships, underwriting, and gifts or foundation grants for their school/institutional activities.
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