The first step is the Pre-Application in early spring. Then about 30 applicants will be invited to fill out the full application in the summer.
"Pre-Application" Innovation Grant Questions
1. Please describe your organization's structure, mission and its services to youth. Limit your response to 200 words or less.
2. Explain what makes your program innovative - describe the innovative components/approaches/strategies of the program/service for which you seek funding, where the innovative concepts originate, and what makes them innovative. Limit your response to 200 words or less.
3. Explain what you would do with RMYF funding and how this would meet RMYF's intent of helping disadvantaged youth reach their full potential by means of innovative services. Limit your response to 200 words or less.
4. Have you applied before?
5. Number of youth served by this proposed program annually?
"Full Application" Innovation Grant Questions
Organizational Information
1. Please describe your organization's structure, mission and its services to youth, and list the principal staff and board with their titles and respective organizations. Limit your response to 500 words or less. [ability to attach multiple docs]
2. Have you applied before?
3. Explain what makes your program innovative - describe the innovative components/approaches/strategies of the program/service for which you seek funding, where the innovative concepts originate, and what makes them innovative. Limit your response to 200 words or less.
4. Describe the youth program/service you would like RMYF's funding to support. (Please do not assume that the Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation Board, who will review your proposal, has expertise in the area of youth programs in which you work. Clearly explain your program.) Limit your response to 1000 words or less.
5. Describe the problem or need that the innovative program/service addresses, including data on the significance or prevalence of the problem or issues affecting the targeted youth while explaining the rationale for your approach; i.e. explain how your project will address the problem or need and result in your anticipated outcomes. Limit your response to 200 words or less.
6. Number of youth served by this proposed program annually
7. If you have a logic model or theory of change model for the program/service for which you seek funding, please include or attach. [ability to attach multiple docs]
8. Specify the anticipated outcomes for the youth that participate in the program/service for which you seek funding, and what evidence you have that your program achieves these outcomes. [ability to attach multiple docs]
Financials
9. Please provide your program’s current annual budget. Attach if a separate document. [ability to attach multiple docs]
10. Is funding for this program/service provided by external funder(s)? If yes, please identify the funder(s). Please be specific.
11. For what size grant are you applying ($5,000 - $20,000)?
12. Explain what you would do with RMYF funding and how this would meet RMYF's intent of helping disadvantaged youth reach their full potential by means of innovative services. Limit your response to 200 words or less. [ability to attach multiple docs]
13. Please provide a budget for how you plan to expend the grant, if you are awarded it. Attach if a separate document.
Advancement Grant Application Questions (actual application for former RMYF grantees by invitation only)