Capital Campaign Advice From the Field

LHYS also received a very large grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation -- a result, Youngquist says, of a newly developed grant-solicitation strategy.

“We used a number of our volunteers, and we really went at the foundation from a number of angles. We had board members talking with people that they knew who were board members at the foundation, we went through the official grant process and it really was a model for how we would like to be able to secure large organizational gifts,” Youngquist says.