Dos and Don'ts

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Here are some of our pet peeves. Most of them won’t get your grant thrown out and we admit they aren’t major crimes, but we would prefer not to see any more of them.

Do

  • Do read the grant application section carefully and follow the guidelines.
  • Do take great care with the one-page project summary section of the Phase I application. It may be the most important part of your application.
  • Do check your numbers. Budgets that don’t match the text of the grant or that don’t add up don’t get you grants. We do read the numbers and we do want the details.

Don’t

  • Don’t staple or bind your Phase II proposals. Save your staples, keep the folders! We may need to make copies of your materials and it makes more work for us. Binder clips will do fine. Read the grant application guidelines.
  • Don’t submit two-sided copies. It is another copying issue. Read the guidelines.
  • Don’t forget to tell us what your organization is really going to do. Please keep in mind that things such as building self-esteem are not something you are going to do; it is an outcome you may hope for.
  • Don’t get the name of the foundation wrong, it’s tacky.
  • Don’t get angry with us if you don’t receive a grant. We are a small foundation and can only fund a fraction of the grant applications we receive.