Prospect Profile & Proposal Pitch: CareQuest Institute of Oral Health

Too often, prospect research stops with the data: who a funder is, what they’ve given, whether the fit is there. This profile went further—built not only to map CareQuest Institute for Oral Health against Meharry’s ABLE (Access, Belong, Learning, and Equity) Clinic, but to win internal buy-in for pursuing a transformative gift. Larger asks require collective support before they reach a funder, so the deck translated the clinic’s model into CareQuest’s own language (ahead of its June 2025 grand opening) around inclusivity, provider training, and systems change, then paired past-giving analysis with concrete use cases for a $200,000 request—along with next steps for cultivation. It treats prospect research as a tool for alignment—getting stakeholders to see the same opportunity in the same way—not simply a one-and-done report on whether one exists.