Small Organization Snapshot: It Happened to Alexa Foundation

“About 90 percent of the executive director’s job is fundraising. It has to be,” she says, adding that procuring grant money can be a tricky business sometimes.

“We have had great luck in the past with grants,” Augellos says. “At one point we received a federal grant that covered all our expenses for a year, so that all funds raised were put into an endowment or went directly to victims.”