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Application Guidelines

How To Submit Proposals

A letter should be submitted which briefly and concisely describe the purpose for which the grant is sought, including benefit to the church; a statement of the aims and background of the applicant organization; the project’s time frame and anticipated results;

methods for evaluation and dissemination of results.

These documents should be attached to the letter:

An expense and income budget for conduct of the program;
Financial statements for the previous year, including sources of income and most recent audit;
Description of a viable plan for financing the program’s continuation;
List of the applicant organization’s Board of Directors.

Evaluation

Evaluation of projects or programs can take place in midstream, as well as at the end of a grant period; however, evaluation procedures must be formulated during initial planning. These are useful questions to be asked in making evaluation procedures an integral part of program design:

What are the general, long-term goals of the proposed project, program or organization?
Within these goals, what are the short-term, measurable objectives against which results will be compared at the end of the grant period?
To achieve these goals and objectives, what specific activities are planned?
What data collection procedures are there?
How will results be disseminated?
What mechanism is there to reevaluate project objectives if circumstances change?

Limitations

The Trinity Grants Board will not entertain proposals for the following:

Support for programs that do not have the active involvement and participation of an Anglican/Episcopal church jurisdiction;
Scholarships for study, or assistance to any individuals;
Purchase of land, construction or renovation of buildings;
Establishment of endowment funds;
General operating expenses of established organizations (except through specific program/budget);
Funding of deficits;
Operation of neighborhood service facilities such as pre-schools, day-care and community centers, orphanages, shelters;
Feeding programs, emergency relief, or disaster response (except in the case of an invited proposal or special initiative);
Arts and cultural programs; and
Repetition of “onetime” grants

In addition, the following three limitations apply to the Spiritual Formation and Development program objective:

We only consider funding programs that have been running for at least one year.
We do not fund more than half the program budget.
We do not presently fund grants to organizations that have previously received a Trinity spiritual formation grant. Our intention is to support a wide spectrum of spiritual formation programs throughout the United States in order to generate increasing numbers of high-quality programs in spirituality.

Application Deadlines

The proposal review process is a continuous activity. Approximately eight weeks before a scheduled Grants Board meeting, staff decides which funding requests will be recommended for approval. Because it may take six months or more to review a proposal, applicants are urged to submit requests well ahead of the time the money will be needed. The Grants Board meets in February, May, and November.

Applicants whose proposals cannot be funded are notified soon after that decision is made. The Vestry of Trinity Parish ratifies all Board decisions. Notices of awards are sent by the middle of the month following a Board meeting.

All materials are promptly acknowledged upon receipt.

Requests for Annual Reports and application guidelines should be sent to:

Trinity Grants Program
74 Trinity Place
New York, NY 10006-2088
Telephone: (212) 602-0710
FAX: (212) 602-0717

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