GEOList Summary: Due Diligence for Grants to Governmental Units

  • Rumsha Ahmed, April 3, 2013

The Dyson Foundation occasionally receives a grant application from a governmental unit, such as a town or a school district, for a project – generally as part of our Strategic Restructuring Initiative that funds mergers and other types of organizational restructuring. Because this is a very small part of what we do, we don’t have a particular process or set of documents that we request as part of our application review. The documents that we ask for from our nonprofit applicants are often not available from governmental units – often there is no equivalent or even comparable document. Does anyone have a review process or set of application requirements for these types of applicants that they feel captures the relevant information without being overly burdensome?

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