grantmaking objectives

The Foundation encourages applications that provide significant benefits to the community in the areas of interest: Arts & Culture, Community & Environment, Education, Health & Human Services, and Youth. The Foundation places a higher priority on applications that offer creative responses to the community's most pressing unmet needs and show promise of building ongoing local support for needed services.

Organizations seeking funding should have:

• A broad base of funding support
• Management capacity to effectively execute the project
• A clear, concise plan for project evaluation with outcome measurement
• Collaboration among other service providers

Organizations seeking funding should have a specific program which:

• Addresses a significant funding gap or critical opportunity (such as access for people from low-income areas or for disadvantaged members of the community)
• Has long-term impact in terms of replication or reach
• Emphasizes preventive intervention and education
• Produces measurable results