Grantmaking Guidelines

Application Review Criteria

The Foundation anticipates receiving more requests than it can support. This means that our Board of Directors must carefully consider merit and potential impact when making funding decisions. We generally favor programs that:

• respond to a demonstrated need with an educational program that does not duplicate the efforts of others;
• build an awareness of financial management skills and self-sufficiency of the target audience (youth or adult);
• if not a one time project, show evidence that the educational program can be sustained following the funded project.

When evaluating applications and establishing priorities, the Board will give particular consideration to the following:

• degree of impact on the credit granting community;
• focus on stregthening or building better users of consumer credit;
• plan, articulate, and demonstrate an intended outcome;
• ability of the organization to professionally staff to achieve intended outcome;
• as much as possible achieve a measurable outcome;
• collaborative efforts of organization and community partners working together.