Publisher Note: We’ve curated our videos on YouTube into categories that loosely match up with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to make it easier for viewers to find and connect with potential partners, like innovators with fascinating and investible inventions, diplomats with information to share about a new direction and a solution needed, or an NGO that might have been …
Are You Personally Investment Worthy? Insights and Resources for the Investment Seeker
Publisher Article (Excerpted from Linkedin Newsletter) “I have a serial investor on my advisory board, have interviewed several investors for my media platform www.frontrunnersinnovate.com, and reviewed many innovator pitchdecks and one-pagers. Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve advised and conducted business development activities for a few hundred startups, but, don’t mistake me for an expert. When I talk …
Marissa Fayer on Women’s Health and Women’s Innovation Funding Opportunities
Marissa Fayer is the Founder/CEO of HERhealthEQ based in the US. Her work spans many projects in several countries but focuses on women’s health. Along with sourcing hospital equipment for re-use in hospitals and women’s clinics in areas of the world where needed, she also conducts screening events for women-centric diseases, like breast and cervical cancers. She now adds …
Linda Mac Dougall Educates and Advocates for Healthy and Safe Aging
Linda Mac Dougall has been working in the aging space and within disabled communities for most of her career. Her expertise and education credentials have landed her on boards and with a client base who appreciates her holistic approach to managing the health stresses of aging. She shares her expertise with aging care professionals and family caregivers as well …
Fundraising Ideas and Grantwriting Tips for Nonprofits and Charities
On July 8th, 2022, Mary Kurek, Frontrunners Development President, and CEO along with Aaron Smith, Ph.D., Founder of Workplace Readiness Solutions, hosted a webinar to deliver fundraising ideas and tips along with grant writing information and resources. The mission was to help nonprofits and charities build sustainability into their budgets. The webinar was video recorded and is shared …
Raising Capital is What Greg Downey Does and What He Teaches
Greg Downey is the founder of Purim Ventures, a venture capital company that also specializes in advisory services and fundraising education. Greg has over 25 years of helping disruptive innovations get to market and has helped companies already on market to expand. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully helped lead multiple capital raises totaling over $75,000,000 from …
Resources – 25 Fundraising Ideas Plus Tips
The following resources were created to companion the free webinar “Fundraising Ideas and Grant Tips” hosted by Frontrunners Development, Inc. and Workplace Readiness Solutions in July 2022. You are welcome to print out these resources. If interested in sharing them, the documents must be shared completely unaltered with credits intact. 25 Fundraising Tips Resource Sheet: Grant Funding Questionnaire: Grant Funding Checklist: …
Women’s Empowerment on a Global Scale – What That Looks Like When an Empowered Latino Woman Leads
Irma Sanchez is a Latino woman, mother, and entrepreneur living in California. Proudly providing leadership in women’s empowerment, she’s creating an impact through the Women’s Economic Forum as their representative in the Silicon Valley area. But, that’s only one of the many roles she fills in helping women to find their true selves and progress toward their own impact. …
Pareena Has a FoodLoop Ecosystem Model That Turns Concrete Cities into Waste-Reducing Farms
Pareena Prayukvong lives and works in Thailand where soil is rare and big buildings dominate the landscape. When you are dedicated to reducing waste and toxins in the air, you have to get creative, and she has. Pareena is a trainer and co-creator at The Network, an NGO focused on sustainable development in Thailand. She and the team work …
Free Webinar – 25 Fundraising Ideas and Grant-Seeking Tips
From Mary Kurek, Frontrunners Development, Inc. It’s time! Lots of charities and nonprofits have been asking us where to find funds for small projects or just to boost budgets. So, Frontrunner Aaron Smith, Ph.D. of Workplace Readiness Solutions and I got together and decided to share what we know from our collective (almost 60) years of working on nonprofit and …