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Application Procedures

The instructions which follow are only for organizations invited to apply to the Foundation. If you have been asked to submit a full proposal to the Foundation, please review these instructions as well as our Grantmaking Guidelines before you submit your application. We ask that you submit your proposal electronically to using the form linked below. Please see the Foundation’s Application Form for the required elements in preparing your proposal. Feel free to contact Jeffrey Glebocki via email with any questions you may have. You must complete the form and submit it along with a copy of your IRS Determination Letter.
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Full proposals will be reviewed by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees in May and June. Funding decisions will be announced in late July 2026. All approved organizations will be asked to provide a single, one-page electronic progress report at the end of the grant period (approximately June 2027).

Meet Our Grantees

An 193-hour pre-apprenticeship training program by Oregon Tradeswomen (Portland, OR) prepares women for careers in the trades.

Big Sky Youth Empowerment (Bozeman, MT) provides structured outdoors-time, such as learning kayaking skills, to promote emotional and social wellbeing for participating teens.

Big Sky Youth Empowerment (Bozeman, MT) provides structured outdoors-time, such as learning kayaking skills, to promote emotional and social wellbeing for participating teens.

Doll Family Foundation founder Hank Doll is joined by former Cleveland Browns player Christian Kirksey and former LMM board chair, Jan Roller, at Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries’ (Cleveland, OH) wall-breaking ceremony. The Breaking New Ground housing initiative takes families out of homelessness and into safe, affordable rental housing owned by LMM.

Training of volunteer advocates is important to the Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation’s (Cleveland, OH) education and outreach efforts in a variety of community settings.

Mountain Mamas (Bozeman, MT) received communications training and technical assistance from Resource Media for their campaign to secure funding for habitat conservation and recreational access.

The Na’ah Illahee Fund’s regranting program (Seattle, WA) supports community-based solutions for climate change such as the work of the Alaska Native Birthworkers and Alaska Native Indigenous Training Academy.

The Na’ah Illahee Fund’s regranting program (Seattle, WA) supports community-based solutions for climate change such as the work of the Alaska Native Birthworkers and Alaska Native Indigenous Training Academy.