Women’s Foundation criteria (responses to urgent and critical need; bold new ventures; new approaches to ongoing problems)?
No. A strong proposal should meet at least one of the criteria but it doesn’t need to meet all three. For example, providing operating funds to a community organization may be a response to an urgent need, but not a bold new venture. This does not reduce its eligibility for funding. Sometimes the most urgent need is operating support for an established organization or ongoing program; sometimes providing seed money to a new program will be the direction the committee chooses. Either is acceptable.
