office of corporate and foundation relations

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the ASU Foundation for A New American University facilitates mutually beneficial relationships between ASU and local and national corporations and foundations. The office also serves as a resource for ASU faculty and university and foundation development staff.

This site offers a variety of resources to assist you in identifying viable corporate and foundation funding opportunities and to help you prepare and submit grant proposals. Corporate and foundation relations staff members may also be available to offer assistance. Please email June Claypool, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations, for further information about how we can help you advance your proposal.

our services

The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations collaborates with its university colleagues to identify exemplary programs and initiatives that advance ASU’s key priorities and are likely to have strong appeal to local, national or international corporate-based funders and philanthropic foundations.

To advance the university’s and foundation’s reputations as partners of choice among leaders in the business community and to advance institutional priorities with private foundations, our office:

• Advances the university’s priority initiatives, including the Sustainability Consortium, the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute of Sustainability and other educational initiatives.
• Works with ASU’s multiple campuses, colleges and units to identify promising programs and match those programs with appropriate prospective funders.
• Partners with the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development on limited submissions and internal calls for proposals.
• Manages the ongoing cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of corporations, corporate foundations and philanthropic foundations with the capacity to make major investments in ASU.
• Establishes and maintains administrative practices that ensure a coordinated and strategic approach to corporate-based and foundation fundraising.
• Ensures the accuracy and timeliness of all records regarding corporate and foundation philanthropic giving to ASU.

To assist ASU faculty, staff and development officers with corporate and foundation fundraising-related activities, our office provides:

• Project and concept development.
• Corporate solicitation strategy development.
• Preparation of written concept summaries, case statements, letters of inquiry and proposals.
• Contact with program officers when appropriate.
• Cultivation and stewardship activities.

With advance notice, our office will be pleased to provide full support for requests of $100,000 and above, as well as limited assistance for proposals of less than $100,000. Please email June Claypool, assistant director of corporate and foundation relations, for further information about how we can help you advance your proposal.