Trevor Skillen is founder, President, and CEO of Metasoft Systems, providers of FoundationSearch, North America's leading source of foundation fundraising resources for nonprofits. Since 1995, the company has helped more than ten thousand nonprofits throughout North America raise over $13.7 billion in funding. He hopes to further help nonprofits by writing this and other blogs to examine existing fundraising methods and practices, explore new fundraising leads, and open the discussion on foundation and corporate fundraising best practices.