Careful With Corporations

Careful With Corporations

Feb. 14, 2006

By Abny Santicola, associate editor, FundRaising Success

Soliciting second gifts from corporations? Better put on your kid gloves, says Lou Fontek, director of corporate and foundation giving for the American Kidney Fund.

"Corporations don't like getting hit up every three weeks or every four weeks [getting] asked for another gift," Fontek says. "They have to put it in their budget, what they're going to give. So you need to make sure that you know what you want to ask for, [and] ask them one time a year."