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What We Fund
The Foundation is willing to accept proposals in three areas:
education, intercultural, and social issues.
It is particularly interested in projects that offer innovative
approaches to dealing with problems.
In addition to providing direct funding for projects, it may also
be willing to provide technical support to individuals or groups who
wish to prepare grant applications to the government or to foundations.
This support could include assistance in proposal preparation,
providing matching funds, providing a 501(c)(3) organizational structure
for the administration of granted funds, and project assessment.
EDUCATION:
The Foundation’s primary interest is in education, and it
expects that most of the funding and support that it provides will be in
this area. It does not want
to compete with schools or other funders.
Rather, it sees its niche as funding small community-based
innovative projects for which funds would otherwise not be available.
Its particular areas of interest include:
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New teaching or educational techniques
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Mentoring of students
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Increasing parental involvement
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After-school programs
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Computer/Internet study aids
INTERCULTURAL:
The Foundation will consider proposals whose objective is to
promote world peace and international understanding by helping the
peoples of the world to better understand other cultures and to be more
tolerant of other peoples’ beliefs and customs.
Projects falling in this category would be most likely to be of
interest to the Foundation if they involved public schools and the
education system.
SOCIAL ISSUES:
While it is the Foundation’s intent in all three funding areas,
to focus its funding in the central Ohio area, the Foundation’s
mission statement and Articles of Incorporation specifically prohibit
the Foundation from considering projects in this category which are not
within the state of Ohio. In
that the needs of the community so vastly exceed the resources that the
Foundation could bring to bear, the Board has decided that it will only
consider projects where the Board determines that an urgent need exists
that is unlikely to be met from any other source.
The Board strongly recommends that anyone interested in
submitting a proposal in this area contact the managing director of the
Foundation prior to preparing an application.
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