Your grant proposal to the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund does not have to be elaborate. In fact, the clearer, more straight-forward and concise you can be when presenting your grant request, the stronger your proposal will be.
General Information
The trustees ask that you complete and submit the Grant Request Summary Form and Proposal Checklist.
Please note the following helpful hints:
- Double-space the text in your document
- Number all pages of narrative
- Provide a table of contents
- Separate all copes with clips
- Limit clippings or other background materials to five pages or less
- Do not send any DVDs, CDs or videotapes
- Mail all proposals together (e-mail and fax submissions are not accepted)
- Include a self-addressed and stamped envelope for any re-usable materials which you would like returned
Grant Request Summary Form
Please download and complete this two-page form and include it at the front of your proposal.
Proposal Narrative
As concisely and clearly as possible, please describe your request. The trustees ask that you keep the narrative part of your proposal to 10 pages or less. Your narrative should include the following:
- A brief description of your organization and its objectives
- A clear and concise description of your request
- The need
- Evidence of the need
- How the requested funds will meet or address the need
- Proposed program, project or capital purchase
- Goals and objectives of the initiative
- Population served, size of constuency and expected impact
- Time-frame (including start date and anticipated end date)
- How will you know if you are successful? Please list three ways you will measure whether the program has accomplished its goals
- The funding request
- The amount requested from the Fund
- Total cost of the proposed program, project or capital purchase
- All sources of funding approached for this request
- Please include the names of the funding organizations and/or foundations and the dollar amounts requested from each
- Committed funding
- Please list the names of other funding organizations and/or foundations and dollar amounts received to-date for this request
- Individual contributors need not be named, but please provide dollar amounts received
- Please indicate pending requests for which you are still waiting for a decision
- Please indicate if members of your organization's Board are financially contributing to the project or capital purchases
- A detailed budget for your request
- Please describe how funds will be allocated
- Be specific. Requests for equipment, for example, should include a quote; projects should be broken down into components with itemized price estimates
- A projected operating budget for duration of proposed initiative
- Please provide a projected operating budget for your organization for the time period during which your proposed project/program will be carried out
- A brief description of future plans
- What is your plan for continuing support of project/program objectives after funding from the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund ends?
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