Examples of In-Kind Support and Resources

by Barry Sweeny, 2003

In-kind resources are not donations or sponsorships, grants or loans of actual cash, all of which are helpful. In-kind resources are those which have cash value, but they are other kinds of resources and services which you do NOT need to buy because they have been given or loaned to you. That means that, whatever cash you have can be spent on other things, rather than these things.

Some example of in-kind resources follow. They are framed as if given to your program by another different program, department or person, either internal or external to your organization. Be sure to carefully consider and "mine" this list for ways you can save your program's scarce resources.

ï Provision of staff time to work in or for your program (marketing materials design, etc.)
ï Provision of a place to conduct meetings and trainings
ï Provision of tuition credits that can serve as mentoring incentives.
ï Access to a publicity expert and mechanism, printing department, or other resources that you need
ï Access to the time of a grant writing or research expert that you may not have in your organization
ï Contacts with decision makers at a level above your own personal network
ï Access to information on funding sources or opportunities about which you were not familiar
ï Access to technology equipment or other infrastructure that you do not have or that is not available to you because your own people are using it when you need it
ï Access to instructional design, mentoring, or technology experts who can advise you and your planning, or are released for a time to do actual work for you
ï Access to secretarial or other clerical support
ï Willingness to provide the postage for and staff time to put out a mailing
ï Access to a regional data base of names and addresses that you need
ï The ability to plan and make joint purchases of goods and services which, because of economy of scale, give you access to quantity discounts and can save you considerable funds.

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