Application Procedures for the 2012 Competitive Grant Program
Grant proposals must be emailed to GCFGrants@Gmail.com no later than May 1, 2012.
Proposals must include:
- Summary Face Sheet to include:
- Name of organization, mailing address, email address, primary contact person with title and phone number and alternate contact person with title and phone.
- Project summary (one or two paragraphs)
- Project starting and completion dates
- Amount requested from Gloucester Community Foundation
- Total project budget
- Independent Auditing/Accounting Firm with contact information
- Detailed narrative not to exceed 3 pages to address the following questions:
- What need will the proposed project address?
- How will the project work? For example:
a) How many people will be served?
b) How will the target audience be reached?
c) How will this audience benefit from the project?
d) Is the project a collaborative effort with other organizations? If so, with whom?
e) Staff needed to support the project? Existing staff or new hire?
f) What geographic area will be served?
- What is the duration of the project? If longer than one year, how will project be funded in future years?
- Hours of operation?
- What will the program staff-to-client ratio be?
- Will this grant be used as a challenge or matching grant?
- Detailed budget for the project
- Previous year’s audit or financial review and operating budget of organization for the current year that has been approved by organization’s Board of Directors. If not available, explain.
- Current list of Board of Directors and amount of financial support pledged/contributed by the organization’s Board of Directors.
- Copy of IRS Tax Exempt letter designating the organization as 501 © 3 non-profit
- If filed, copies of your tax return for the most recent fiscal year end. If immediately previous year has not been filed, please explain and provide organization-prepared balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows.
- Operating budget for current year and three year forward operating projections
If your organization is selected to receive a grant, it will be subject to the receipt and approval of the documents detailed below. To ensure timely processing of grants, be sure to keep the following information current:
All applicants will be notified of grant awards by email no later than August 30, 2012. Each recipient organization will be required to submit a final report after one year evaluating the program or project funded.