AMENDMENT PROJECT
PROPOSAL INFORMATION
Organization Name:
Organization Address:
Executive Director: Email:
Phone:
Contact Name (if not ED): Email:
Phone:
Number of People on Staff: F/T P/T
Organization Website:
Tax Status of Applying Organization or Fiscal Sponsor: [ 1]501(c)3 [ ]
501(c)4 EIN #:
Does your organization use a fiscal sponsor? [| ]Yes [ ]No
Fiscal Sponsor Name (/f Applicable):
Fiscal Sponsor Address:
Fiscal Sponsor Contact: Email:
Phone:
Has your organization made the 501(h) election under the Internal
Revenue Code to have lobbying measured by expenditures? [ ]Yes[ |]
No
If applying as a 501(c)3, does your organization also have a 501(c)4? [ ]
Yes [ ]No
Grant Type: [ ] General Operating [ |] Project Support
Grant Period: —xx/xx/20xx to xx/xx/20xx Total Number of Months Covered
by Grant:
Grant Amount Requested:
Organization Budget: Project Budget (if applicable):
Will your organization/project budget include any lobbying?[ ]Yes [ ]
No
If yes, you must submit a bifurcated budget.
Which strategic area(s) have you been invited to apply for? (Please check
all that apply.)
[ ]1. Reduce executions/sentences (advocacy or litigation)
[ ]2. Repeal (advocacy or litigation)
[ ]3. Communications and/or unusual voices
Application Checklist: Please ensure that the following items are
completed/included with your proposal:
. Completed Proposal Information
. Organization Budget for Upcoming Fiscal Year (2021)
. Project Budget for Upcoming Fiscal Year (2021) (if applicable)
. Financial Documents
a. Current balance sheet (as of June 30, 2020 or after)
b. Profit and loss v. budget statement for previous year (2019)
c. Profit and loss v. budget statement for current year (2020)
d
e
BWNR
. Audit or 990 for most recent available year
. IRS Tax Status Letter
Please return this document in MS Word format by xx/xx/2020. Please
label this document as “Organization Name/Acronym 2021 Grant
Proposal.” Please send your completed application and all relevant
documents to grantproposal@8thamendment.org.
Grant Purpose
(In one to two lines, state how funding to your organization will assist the national
strategy and what you aim to achieve.)
Background & Context
(Please give us an update as to where the state is on the use of the death penalty
and the prospects for change. In two paragraphs, tell us the three or four biggest
accomplishments of the organization over the last year.)
Organizational Information
(Give a brief history of how the organization was started and the role it has played
in the death penalty abolition movement over the years.)
Staff/Organizational Bios
(Provide very brief bios of at least two to three key leaders who will oversee this
work.)
Proposal
(State the goals of the work that will be achieved over the next year. (i.e. We will
reduce death sentences in the state by providing litigation assistance to trial
attorneys; we will build support for legislative repeal by leading a broad-based
public education campaign in key areas of the state; we will lift unusual voices in
the media calling for change.) If applicable, please explicitly name the partners
with whom you will be working to achieve your stated goal and the geographical
focus of your work. This should be as brief as possible since you will be asked to
give more detail in the Benchmarks section below.)
Racial Justice Alignment
(In no more than one paragraph, please explain how your work advances racial
justice, and what efforts you are making to empower leaders of color and/or
impacted persons to become leaders in your campaign.)
Funding & Expenses
(Please briefly describe the other sources of income listed in your budget,
including grants, major donors and other fundraising efforts. Give a very brief
outline of fundraising effort going forward (no more than three sentences.)
Benchmarks
(What are the specific outcomes that will be achieved by the end of the year?
Please list at least three quantifiable outcomes. Example: We will have assisted in
30 pretrial cases, or we will have conducted 20 public education events, or we will
have placed 20 voices in the media highlighting problems with the death
penalty.)
