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Proposal Review

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Proposal Review

Raikes Foundation is an organization that focuses on the welfare of the youth from their early life to their adult life where they fully function in society. The foundation supports adolescents and provides opportunities for them in various capacities. This is aimed at making them grow into healthy adults that can contribute to society. The foundation is currently funding two initiatives namely: Middle Shift Initiative: Building Agency in Early Adolescents which is aimed at developing agency on the youth through establishing their learning strategies and mindsets from their middle level studies to the adult life; Youth Program Quality Initiative which aids in the provision of training and technical assistance to counties (Homeland security, 2019).

Raike Foundation has a set of guidelines that dictate their ability to give grants to project proposals. These guidelines set boundaries as to which projects qualify to receive grants from the foundation. For a grant to be given to a project proposal, the following scores are considered (Raikes Foundation, 2019).

· The foundation only gives grants to on the projects that it has interest in or rather on the projects that they have requested. Any other project proposal that is not requested cannot be given grant.

· The Foundation only funds proposals that originate from organizations and not sole individuals who present their project without the backing from an organization.

· The organizations receiving the grant for the proposal should not be discriminating against people based on their natural dispositions.

· The organization should also be serving the adolescent or should have some activities that focus on adolescents.

· Only the organizations in the united states are eligible to receive the grant from the foundation.

· The applicants must be classified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and as public charities under section 509(a)(1), (2) or (3) of the Code

The benefit of this review process is that it enables the organization to establish the project to focus on a specific goal that the foundation has determined. This prevents establishment of an irrelevant project. The review process filters out the required participants that are eligible for the grant. This ensures that the organization submitting the proposal shall not pursue different goals from the ones that the foundation has set. Also it limits discrimination on wide aspects of people, this makes it easier to establish projects over a wide range of issues that are of concern.The review process has the following limitations. The fact that it limits the grants to organizations only locks out very useful projects that could have served well the call for proposals that the foundation needed. It also limits grants from organizations abroad who may be as well in a position to effectively establish an effective project.

I will seek backing from an organization that meets the requirements needed by the scores set. This will give me better bargaining power and better scores to able to secure the grant. I will also ensure that my project is in accordance with the issue that the foundation has identified and called for establishment of projects. My project will also be free from any bias and discrimination against the aspects identified by the foundation.

References Homeland Security Grants. (2019). Grants. Retrieved from Homeland Security Grants.info: https://www.homelandsecuritygrants.info/GrantDetails.aspx?gid=33505 Raikes Foundation. (2019). Our grants. Retrieved from Raikes foundation: https://raikesfoundation.org/our-grants