REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS

About Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for Louisiana (FFL) is a social justice philanthropic intermediary founded in 2005 as the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation to invest in the immediate recovery of Louisiana’s communities after hurricane Katrina. While FFL was founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, our founders recognized the need to address the longstanding inequities that have shaped life outcomes for the most marginalized of Louisianans. Our programs grew in response to these needs, and today FFL focuses on racial justice, climate justice, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity, LGBTQ organizing, and support for Louisiana's vibrant arts and culture via a three-pronged strategy:

• Invest: FFL makes grants and loans to support organizations and movements throughout Louisiana in our key program areas. We attract and invest resources to support on-the-ground projects, many of which can’t access traditional philanthropy. Through fiscal sponsorship, we support innovative ideas responding to unmet needs throughout Louisiana.
• Build: We build power to effect change in Louisiana communities. Our TOGETHER initiative convenes community leaders and provides training in organizing, policy change, leadership, public speaking, and facilitation to tackle issues of climate change, police accountability, health disparities, housing access, and more.
• Transform: By fortifying movements, we shift systems and shape regional and national narratives. We re-imagine how our communities are governed and funded in order to redefine how residents are able to thrive in them.

Since its inception, FFL has invested $55 million in more than 250 mission-critical nonprofit organizations working across the state towards building a more just Louisiana. As a social justice philanthropic intermediary, FFL’s work unapologetically advances racial justice while moving Louisiana forward. The foundation engages communities in both program co-design as well as its grant-making process, in order to expand opportunities and move communities towards a more just future.

Opportunity

Foundation for Louisiana is seeking consultants to provide technical assistance to our fiscally sponsored projects and other groups we work with to advance our mission of a more free and just Louisiana. Our goal is to create a network of culturally-relevant, community-rooted consultants and organizations that can offer innovative technical assistance to 25-40 fiscally sponsored projects who are working in community and building the infrastructure of their projects, which vary widely in size, scope, and duration.

Deliverables

We invite proposals from consultants and training organizations that can offer a mix of one on one and large group training in both in-person and virtual formats in the following areas of technical expertise for fiscally sponsored projects, nonprofit partners, and grassroots organizations:

• Marketing/Comms
  • Website buildout
  • Communications
  • Strategic Storytelling
  • Narrative change
• Financial Planning
  • Strategic financial planning
  • Taxes
  • Basics of IRS rules for nonprofits
  • Budgeting
• Legal Support
  • 501c3 Development
  • Establishing a Coalition
  • Legal Defense
  • Contract Review
  • Property Purchase/ endowments
• Fund Development
  • Prospect research
  • Pipeline and relationship management
  • Grant writing
  • Comprehensive fundraising plan development
• Leadership and Strategy
  • Managing self and others for mission achievement
  • Project management
  • Anti-racist organizational development
  • Feminist organizational development
  • Strategic partnerships Evaluation and learning
  • Conflict resolution

Initial contracts will be structured as six-month agreements with the possibility of extension into one-year engagements with annual renewal depending on the success of the initial partnership.