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100% this! There are some grantors out there who request sooooooo much documentation from nonprofits, that the ENTIRE purpose of serving the most vulnerable in our communities is totally diminished due to ALL the paperwork needed just to put an application together. The actual application for funding then becomes a barrier to caring for people in our communities. Thank you to Crappy Funding Practices for bringing this to light!
Today’s #CrappyFundingPractices call out goes to Whole Kids and their funding for school gardens. To apply for a garden grant, all you have to do is submit your contact information, school or organizational details and demographics, the name, duties and experience of your garden coordinator, names of your Garden Committee, a drawing of your garden, a list of garden components, photos of your garden space, plans for using the food grown, volunteer recruitment plan, community engagement plan, marketing plan, student engagement plan, cultural relevance plan, nutrition lesson plan, curriculum integration plan, financial sustainability plan, community partnerships (required, and your PTA does not qualify), letter of support (from yourself if you’re the ED), and your connections to Whole Foods Market. By the way, if you get the $3,000 it's subject to audit. Whole Kids this is way too much for a grant of $3,000. By all means offer technical assistance to grantees who need it, but this is not the way. Forcing applicants to explain their entire operations to you doesn’t improve their operations, it only shuts out organizations that don’t have that kind of time. It shuts out the organizations and the kids they serve. Is this really the best you can do? Got your own Crappy Funders? Tell us about it right here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd Or tell us about your Courageous Funder here! ⭐ http://bit.ly/3OOobRf
Even an organization that has the capacity shouldn't be wasting their time on this - $3,000 barely even covers the staff time to pull together this application and reporting!
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3moAlso... $3,000 from a Jeff Bezos tax write off org? 🤢 Instead of wasting everyone's time by requiring all this work and info for a school garden, imagine the work that could be done if he and Amazon just paid their taxes.