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Funder and investor outreach

Find the people who decide at foundations, family offices, climate funds and buyers, and start conversations that get replies.

  1. The funder outreach playbook: start with the people who already know you8 minBuild a weekly outreach routine that starts with your own network, opens every message with something useful and tracks every reply.
  2. The six kinds of climate capital, and who signs at each7 minMap the six main sources of climate capital, the seat that decides at each, what they read first and how to approach them.
  3. Finding family offices that fund climate and nature6 minFind family offices and their foundations that fit your climate or nature project, reach the person who decides and write a first message for them.
  4. Find your next funder through organisations like yours6 minUse public award data to find the funders and buyers that already backed organisations like yours, then write to them citing that award.
  5. Turn your LinkedIn connections into a warm-introduction map6 minScore your LinkedIn connections, find the shortest warm path to each target funder and ask for introductions with a blurb people can forward.
  6. Reaching the programme officer or buyer before the call opens7 minSpot grants and tenders months before they open, take part in market engagement properly and shape your bid while you still can.
  7. Bid or no-bid: deciding what not to apply for7 minScore every grant and tender on six factors, apply hard stops and spend your bid time only where you have a real chance of winning.

Read every playbook with Pro

Work from our playbooks: step-by-step guides to reaching funders, writing proposals and tender responses, and AI tools for your pipeline. Pro opens the full text of all 21 playbooks: the steps, the templates and prompts you can copy, and the checklists, alongside alerts, funder names and the funding flows log.

Pro is £50 per month.

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