Quick Hit: Starting a Police Foundation 101

With police budgets being slashed across the United States, it’s increasingly critical that police departments have access to outside monies to allow for community-led policing initiatives as well as the purchasing of equipment. This presentation will cover how a police department of any size can create a police foundation, a separate 501c3 organization to help them raise money to achieve their goals. Most police foundation programs are critical to building relationships between police and the communities they serve, as the necessary monies are not always budgeted for this type of outreach.