The Foundation will not provide funding for any of the following:

• Individuals. 

• Fund raising events, dinners, advertising or similar affairs. 

• Lobbying, propaganda, or other attempts to influence legislation or other partisan political activities. 

• Organizations for profit and profitmaking enterprises of non-profit groups. 

• Fraternal, labor, service clubs or similar organizations whose principal activity is for the benefit of their own membership. 

• Programs that directly benefit members of the Board, the staff of the Foundation, or their families. 

• Private operating foundations. 

• Organizations or projects outside the United States.

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The Foundation is not inclined to make grants for endowments or to organizations who intend to use the funds to invest for their own income purposes.

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The Foundation will not reply or otherwise respond to flyer or e-mail types of grant applications.

 

It is the general policy that none of the Directors or staff of the Foundation will meet with an applicant before a grant application has been received.