The purpose of The Whitney Foundation is to help fund and supplement those educational, health and housing projects that bring about positive changes in peoples’ lives. The submission of a proposal to the Whitney Foundation is a two-step process.

 

Step One

 

Contact the Whitney Foundation offices and indicate your interest in submitting a proposal to the Foundation. After consideration by the staff, you will be provided with written guidance for submitting a pre-application, a brief one-page description of your proposal.

 

Once the pre-application is received in the Foundation offices, a site visit will be scheduled to discuss more about your proposal and its fit with the Whitney Foundation. At the conclusion of the site visit, a recommendation will be made to staff as to whether or not to invite the applicant to submit a full proposal.

 

Step Two

 

Submit one copy of proposal by stipulated deadline according to the following requirements:

 

(1) Use standard typeface with font size 12
(2) Use white 8.5.x11 paper
(3) Use 1 inch margins
(4) Please number every page
(5) Follow the outline detailed below and answer all of the questions. Failure may result in rejection of the application.
(6) Do not fax application or send videos

 

The Whitney Foundation gives emphasis to those projects that address the following outline points:

 

Project Background

 

(1) Explain how your project addresses diversity, inequality, oppression and discrimination in the community.
(2) Explain how you identified the problem and demonstrate workable solutions to address it.
(3) Demonstrate how the project addresses and attempts to change underlying systemic root causes of problems.
(4) Clearly outline your project’s role in the larger community in the context of other agencies working towards the same end, without duplicating their efforts.

 

Operational Plan

 

(1) Clearly identify goals, objectives and evaluation.
(2) Provide feasible operational plan for sustainability of the project, unless the project is time-limited.
(3) Outline the benefit from the proposed services and resulting change in participant’s lives.

 

Grant Writing Resource

 

We encourage potential grant applicants to visit the Central Valley Coalition for Human Services grant training materials.

 

References for technical assistance can be obtained by contacting us.