Join us for the WVDO Meet the Funders Session on May 21st, 2010 at 10am.

Come hear from funders regarding their Top 10 grantmaking issues. Sit down with some of Oregon and Washington’s most active funders to get to know them, gain insights, and share a bit about your organization and grantseeking priorities.

Funders who have confirmed their attendance include:

Be sure to visit their websites to learn more in preparation of this unique grantmakers event. There will be three 20-minute meet and greet sessions that will pair grantseekers with grantmakers – in a format that encourages explorations of project ideas in order to give grantseeker’s insights into the practical social order.

Logic Model Template

Logic models are useful for organizing and visually representing the core elements of a particular project. By creating associations between priorities, activities, and results the logic model serves as a heuristic device that is useful for program and proposal design as well as communicating with a potential partner or investor.

The template below is an oversimplified logic model designed to help you break your project down and focus on the core elements as they relate to your goals and objectives. The task is to fill in the columns below that help you to convey the intended goals, design, and anticipated outcomes of your effort.

We encourage you to use this as a model for focusing your thinking about your project for the Meet the Funders session. There you will have opportunity to gain insight directly from some of our region’s most respected grantmaking organizations and staff. Organizing your thoughts via the logic model will help prepare you for brief discussion and follow up with potential funders whom you meet.

The information is the first row is provided as an example. Feel free to expand the model to include columns such as need, specific activities, and/or resources.