SCORE PHILANTHROPIC FUNDING UPDATES
Total Funds Raised in FY'09 (as of September 1, 2009)- $1,768,000

2008Funded Initiatives

During FY’08more than $1,035,000 was raised to support SCORE programs, projects, resources, chapters and capacity building. Over $850,000 has been put back into

• special project funding - regional events, online resources, technology enhancements
• sponsorships to the SCORE national website for enhancements and additions
• supporting SCORE: Women - a new initiative to provide expanded and enhanced resources to women in business
• sponsorships for enhancements to the SCORE Volunteer Center
• specific corporate sponsorships of SCORE Leadership Conferences (District Director’s/Chapter ChairsConference)
• the English and Spanish versions of the Business Basics Workbook for small business owners
• designated gifts to more than 60 Chapters
• program resources/projects and capacity building programs at the SCORE national level
• in in-kind software from Intuit, Sage Software, Palo Alto Software and Microsoft for volunteers and chapters

Philanthropic support to SCORE in 2007-2008assisted our organization in:

Establishing national corporate alliance partnerships which brought increased the marketing of SCORE and provided outstanding resources to our clients like the

• Bank of America sponsored “Small Business Basics” red booklet in English AND Spanish
• Year 2 of the H-P sponsored and powered “Technology for Your Business” section of the SCORE website and the 17 city tour of the HP/SCORE Disaster Preparedness Workshops
• Open from American Express “SCORE Speed Coaching” events in 5 regions and their sponsorship of the SCORE website to expand and enhance its resources
• UPS/Concentric and VISA on-line client educational workbooks/workshops
• Corporate sponsorships of the client monthly newsletters, SCORE eNews and SCORE Expert Answers
  

Assisting chapters with enhancing or starting their fundraising efforts to have more resources to serve clients through peer learning conference calls on chapter fundraising topics and providing an updated “Chapter Fundraising Toolkit”

Developing the long-term security of SCORE by promoting and securing future expectancies totaling more than $2.0 million for SCORE’s endowment from more than 68 SCORE and non-SCORE volunteers who joined the Titley Society

Expand the culture of philanthropy within SCORE and outside of SCORE so that new revenue streams of philanthropy were started to help expand the services and resources to our clients.