Lina Constantinovici is a problem solver, but, before that, she was a researcher. Before that, she worked in a place where innovation was rampant, but, the trek toward commercialization for most innovation was long, laborious, and often a threat to the innovation, itself. Lina founded Innovation 4.4 to bring a solution to the innovator community and breathe new life into …
Michael Kintu Personalizes Impact Through the World Fund for Planning and Development
View PostJosh Hile Creates New Options for the Way Impact Work Gets Funded
Founder and CEO of Citizen Mint, Josh Hile, is creating much-needed accessibility to funding toward positive change. For innovators and problem solvers who have solutions to world challenges, this is great news and even better news for the entire planet. Josh shares his background and what he’s developed as a solution to a huge gap in funding impact projects with …
Irma Sanchez Answers Questions on How She Gets Such Great Funders
Irma Sanchez is the Women’s Economic Forum leader in Silicon Valley. As such, she must produce events and programs that assist women in becoming self-sufficient in enterprise and confident in life. The work requires a budget that only reaches sustainability if she has some significant sponsors and funding partners. She has worked with Coca-Cola for a number of years as …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
Frontrunners Looking for Fundraising Ideas May Get Just That
Mary Kurek, President and CEO of Frontrunners Development (publishers of Frontrunners Innovate) talks about joining forces with Frontrunner, Dr. Aaron Smith, to provide a webinar event to deliver fundraising ideas and grant tips for global leaders working to help their communities. Kurek shares in this video that she’s aware of how challenging it is for organization leaders around the world …