Although the Foundation is not accepting proposals from individual organizations, we are interested in learning about different groups and the kinds of services they provide to young people. Based on your responses, we will determine whether the Foundation should take a closer look at your programs, leadership, and overall operations. Please note that completing this form does not constitute a proposal to the Foundation. We will, however, respond to everyone who fully completes the survey to let you know whether we intend to request more information about your organization. Also, we cannot answer questions by phone, email, fax, or regular mail about the status of survey responses still under review.

At the present time the Foundation is working exclusively with youth-serving organizations across the United States that serve young people from low-income families ranging in age from 9 to 24.   To be considered as a potential grantee, an organization must:

• be a stand-alone 501(c)(3) with a history of service to young people;
• be interested in and capable of increasing its capacity to serve more youth;
• be committed to using data to improve program delivery and measuring the impact of their services on the lives of their service recipients; and
• have evidence that it is achieving outcomes for youth in at least one of the following three areas:
  

Because we look for evidence that organizations can appropriately apply large, multi-year grants, in general, the organizations we support are financially strong, have track records of revenue growth and budgets greater than $1,000,000.

To be certain your organization meets our basic criteria please answer the five following questions.  Keep in mind, that if you answer “no” or "none of the above" to any of these questions, your organization is unlikely to meet our investment criteria at the present time.

All questions marked with an * must be answered.

As stated above, if you answered “no” or "none of the above" to any of the above five questions, your organization is unlikely to meet our investment criteria at the present time. If you answered yes to questions 1-4 and checked at least one outcome for question five, and wish to continue to the next set of questions, please continue with the survey below or exit to end the survey.

Section Two

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