| Grants
Grantmaking Policies
Exclusions:
In general, the Foundations do not grant funds to the following types of
organizations or projects:
- Religious activities or programs that serve, or appear to serve
specific religious groups or denominations. However, if a proposal
submitted by a faith-based or similar organization is intended to serve
as broad a segment of the population as the program of a comparable
non-religious organization, the Foundation will consider the proposal on
the same basis as proposals from other agencies.
- Political lobbying or legislative activities.
- Endowments establishment or enhancement.
- Debt retirement, deficit financing, reducing operating deficits, or
replenishing resources used to pay for such
purposes.
- Private or parochial schools.
- National, state, or local fundraising activities, i.e., annual fund
drives, courtesy advertising, benefit tickets, telephone solicitations.
General solicitation letters are not acknowledged.
- Umbrella funding organizations that would distribute requested funds at
their own discretion.
- Monuments, statues, or memorial markers.
Low Priority:
In general, the Boards are less likely to grant funds for the
following types of requests and organizations:
- Start-up funding for new organizations.
- Annual operating expenses of established agencies.
- Travel, tours, trips.
- Research projects.
- Publications, videos, etc.
- Conferences, workshops, seminars, symposia, etc.
- Local tax-support. replacement
- Government agencies, tax-supported institutions.
- Historic preservation.
- Organizations located outside the Panhandle (even though the project may
benefit Panhandle residents and communities).
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