Your company wants corporate contributions to link meaningfully to your business goals - and help the communities where you do business.

The Headwaters Group understands both realities. We help corporations discover when and why to establish a corporate foundation. We can quickly assess the areas and organizations that represent the right opportunities.

We begin by asking key questions:

• What are your company's core values? Your mission?
• Why does your company invest in the community?
• What difference does your company want to make in the communities where you do business?

Through a series of management interviews, we can focus a direction for giving, whether you are creating a new program, evaluating results, or charting an entirely new course. We can help you:

• Identify opportunities to align business and community interests
• Build partnerships with non-profit organizations
• Implement new initiatives
• Identify and prioritize stakeholder interests
• Develop budget and funding priorities
• Facilitate grant review and decision-making process
• Determine leveraging opportunities
• Integrate marketing efforts
• Brand your corporate giving programs
• Craft internal and external public relations campaigns
• Engage employees and evaluate impacts on recruitment and retention
• Evaluate community and business results

Headwaters' staff brings expertise in corporate foundation development and grantmaking through program research and planning, grant management, organizational effectiveness and evaluation.