The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc

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Location: 325 W Main St Ste 1110, Louisville, 40202 KY

EIN: 31-0997017

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The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc

May 01, 2023

Reviewer 2186 - Grant Applicant - applied in 2023

Community Foundation of Louisville recently issued a trust-based philanthropic RFP: the Community Safety and Healing Fund. Grassroots organizations were encouraged to apply. The whole application was through Formstack and there was an in-person presentation session to learn about it as well as a PDF preview of the application provided in advance. The whole idea of it was very intriguing to many nonprofits.

It seemed very straightforward when they went through the application process, but it was not as smooth as it was originally presented.

First, the application instructions said that each question allows for 500 WORDS. Actually, the Formstack allowed for a max of 3000 characters. That is a big difference for proposal writers when we are all on a tight deadline.

Also, I wrote out actual responses for the financial management questions out in advance. Once I was in the application form, I discovered then the answer format was multiple-choice and took maybe 5 sections to answer. That was a big waste of my time to have written out responses to these questions.

Then, CFL requests at the end of the application that organizations share optional information about organizational equity practices, governance, and leadership demographics. These optional questions were asked at the end of the Formstack questionnaire and not previewed in the application instructions. If they want those optional questions answered, they should disclose them in advance. I can’t imagine they will collect many of those responses.

Basically, this is cautionary information about funders presenting accurate overviews of proposal applications. Often the format of the grant tools does not allow the person filling it out to see the questions or responses in advance and so we rely on the exact instructions laid out in application preview documents. The application format needs to match up as presented.

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Aug 28, 2017

Grant Applicant - applied in 2017

I found the Foundation contact to be easy to connect with, genuinely interested in helping, and very prompt in her response.

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