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Grant Guidelines

Grants List

Current program areas are:

• National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC), Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. For further information visit www.npcrc.org.
• Additional limited funding for advancing the field of palliative care.
• The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins Medical School. For further information visit www.alscenter.org.
• Literacy enrichment programs for New York City public school children, focusing on 1) arts education and 2) professional development for teachers in collaboration with Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Please note that the Kornfeld Foundation is no longer accepting proposals for after-school programs.
• The Kornfeld Program in Bioethics and Patient Care research grants, at The Greenwall Foundation. Please direct all inquiries to The Greenwall Foundation (212-679-7266, email admin@greenwall.org or visit www.greenwall.org).

Strategy: The Kornfeld Foundation has determined that its strategy going forward will be to make fewer, larger grants that will launch important new initiatives in its fields of interest. It is felt that such support is a very effective way to have long-term sustainable impact and to build partnerships with other funders.

Selection criteria for all programs are:

• Evidence of strong and visionary leadership
• Development of new initiatives that are replicable (good models) and sustainable (long term impact)
• Creation of new ways to address existing critical issues
• Interest in building connections and creative partnerships
• Desire to improve and enrich lives of individuals (rather than capital improvements)
• Original, unusual, dynamic and focused proposals

Proposals should include:

• Background information on organizational history, structure, general finances, board and staff
• Detailed description of proposed project with goals and objectives, target audience/participants, organizational structure, timelines, sites, impact and sustainability, and evaluation plans
• financial information, which should include:
  1. most recent audited financial report on organization;
  2. budget vs. actual income and expenses for current year to date;
  3. projected organization budget for next year;
  4. program budget for funding request with indication of total program cost and allocation of Kornfeld grant request;
  5. copy of 501(c)(3) determination letter;
  6. first page of most recent IRS Form 990.

Proposal Deadlines

The Foundation reviews proposals in three sessions as follows:

* Note: Grants approved at these meetings will be for slightly retroactive grant years.

Proposals may be submitted to: