Enhearten Microgrant Application

Micro grant applications are reviewed two times a year. The application deadlines are March 15 and September 15. Before starting your application, please read about the Enhearten micro grant program here.

Applicant Information

Name

The person listed here must be available for an interview if selected as a semifinalist.

First Name

Last Name

Nonprofit Organization

Website for Nonprofit Organization

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Email Address

Phone

Country

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If Your Nonprofit is Not a U.S. Nonprofit:

Enhearten Unseen Leaders provides microgrant funding to U.S. nonprofits. If your nonprofit is not a U.S. nonprofit, please provide the name and website for a U.S. nonprofit with whom you partner that can receive microgrant funds for your project.

About The Project

Project Title

Please create a descriptive title for the specific project for which you are requesting funding.

Project Location

Please indicate the city, state, and/or country in which your project is located.

Is this a new project or a new component to an existing project?

We hope to fund projects that are either new to your work or represent a new component to an existing project. Enhearten does not fund ongoing operational costs.

New project

New component to existing project

Requested Funding

Please indicate a dollar amount between $500–$1,000. We do not provide funding for projects with large budgets compared to the microgrant amount.

Please tell us about yourself.

Write at least a paragraph to help us get to know you.

Please describe your project and your heart for this work.

Write at least two paragraphs to help us understand your project for which you are requesting Enhearten funding. What specific need does your project help to meet? Why is this important to you? Projects funded by Enhearten Unseen Leaders should be sustainable and/or have ongoing impact.

If your proposal is for a new component to an existing project, please describe the existing project and the new component.

Help us understand the specific new component that this microgrant would fund. Write one paragraph about the existing project. Then write one paragraph about the new component for which you are requesting funding. (If your proposal is for a completely new project, then you can skip this question.)

Please describe your vision for the impact of this project. Include how your project impacts unseen leaders or is led by unseen leaders.

Who will be impacted by this project? Approximately how many people? What do you hope will be the long-term impact? Write at least one paragraph.

Please describe how you will measure project success.

Be specific. What outcomes represent successful completion of the specific project for which you are requesting funding? Write at least one paragraph.

How would Enhearten funding help you to carry out your vision?

Write at least one paragraph to describe this. Describe briefly your funding structure. How would Enhearten funding fit in?

Please provide an informal budget for usage of the micro grant funds.

Please include the following line items, with a brief description and a dollar amount (or N/A) for each. We are looking for details as to specifically how the micro grant funding would be used. Staff: Materials: Physical space: Other: ____________ Administrative fees (if applicable): Total dollar amount requested:

Please provide a timeline for the project.

Include a start date at least two months after the application deadline. Include a projected date for completion of use of funds and a projected submission date for the project report.

How will your project lift up a community?

Your project might impact relational healing, socio-economic uplift, peacemaking, etc. Please write at least one paragraph.

How is your project inclusive?

Describe how your project welcomes, serves, learns from, and partners with a diverse group of people. Please write at least one paragraph.

Is there anything else that you want to share with us?

How did you hear about Enhearten Unseen Leaders?

Professional References

Please ask two people (e.g., mentor, volunteer supervisor, employer, etc.) to serve as professional references for you. Both references should be outside of your family and external to your non-profit organization. We will contact at least one reference for each finalist. Please share a little with your references about your project so that they are ready for us to contact them.

Reference #1

First Name

Last Name

Reference #1 Email

Reference #1 Phone

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Reference #1 Relationship to you

Reference #2

First Name

Last Name

Reference #2 Email

Reference #2 Phone

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Reference #2 Relationship to you