REQUESTED PROPOSALS - Staff will personally contact organizations by January 4, 2012 in the fields of Arts & Culture, Community & Environment or Capital Grants to invite a proposal that will be due between Wednesday, January 25 and Tuesday, January 31, 2012. [See Guidelines for Requested Proposals below.] If your organization is not contacted, it means that staff has determined we will be unable to fund your organization at this time.

REQUESTED PROPOSALS - Staff will personally contact organizations by July 6, 2012 to invite a proposal that will be due between Wednesday, August 6 and Close of Business on Monday, August 13, 2012. [See Guidelines for Requested Proposals below.] If your organization is not contacted, it means that staff has determined we will be unable to fund your organization at this time.

If your organization has been invited to submit a proposal for funding consideration by the Prince Charitable Trusts, please prepare and submit your proposal following the instructions below.

TIMING: Fall 2012
Send your proposal electronically between Monday, August 6 and Close of Business on Monday, August 13, 2012.

WHAT TO INCLUDE:

1. Prince Charitable Trusts Cover Sheet- available on our web site: http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/prince/cover_sheet.doc
2. IRS Determination letter
3. Proposal Narrative – Please use Washington Grantmakers' Common Grant Application Narrative Guidelines: Washington Grantmakers
   You do not need to send a two-page Washington Grantmakers' Executive Summary. Our Cover Sheet will serve that function.

Additional information: Please attach only the following additional information. You do not need to send other information requested by Washington Grantmakers.

4. List of your Board of Directors
5. List of current foundation, corporate, and government funders and amount of current funding
6. Operating budget – previous and current fiscal year
7. Project budget if appropriate
8. Photo – single picture in .jpeg format
9. Your logo in .jpeg format
10. Latest Annual Report – or provide a link to your website if it is there
11. Audited Financial Statement, if available, or IRS Form 990

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ELECTRONICALLY:

1. Use this Dropbox: http://dropbox.yousendit.com/Prince
   
2. Once you are in the Dropbox, follow these procedures:

   Dropbox Recipients:

   • Choose: Kristin Pauly, Sharon Robison AND the name of the person assigned to develop your proposal by checking the appropriate boxes on the Dropbox Recipients List
   • Subject: In the "Subject" box put the name of your organization and the name of the grant cycle for which you are applying
     Example: Doing Good Work Proposal - Fall, 2012.
     [Do NOT label your proposal "Prince Proposal"!]
   • Message: Your choice
   • Enter your E-Mail address to receive confirmation that your proposal has arrived at Prince
   • Browse: Follow the instructions to upload all of your files using the "Browse" feature.
     Please label each file with your organization's name followed by the file's content: Example: Doing Good Work - Narrative, Doing Good Work - Logo, etc.

     You can upload up to 5 separate files by clicking "add another file." [Max size 2 GB] If you do need to send more than 5 files, you may use the YouSendIt Dropbox a second time. Or you may combine files required for your request, except your photo and logo, into one (or more) pdf files before uploading them to YouSendIt. Please upload your photo and logo to YouSendIt as separate files in jpeg formats.

   • Click "Send it!" Wait for confirmation that your files have been uploaded and sent. This might take a few minutes.

     If you have any difficulty with this process, please e-mail Sharon Robison at srobison@prince-trusts.org or call Kristin Pauly at 202-728-0646

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