|
|
Request for Proposals
Applications are due on February 13 at midnight.
The RFP: An Explanation
Required Online Application
Frequently Asked Questions
Locate your completed application.
Overview
Our Mission is to raise visibility and resources for the best community-based nonprofits, and to make giving a more meaningful experience for donors. To that end we publish an annual print Catalogue that is distributed to 25,000 high net worth individuals, encouraging them to give to vetted, community-based nonprofits. In 2011 our partnership with the Washington City Paper meant that Catalogue nonprofits also appeared in a special issue ("Give It Up, DC!") distributed to an additional 72,000 individuals. Applicants apply to be featured in the print Catalogue and on the web, to win the Catalogue's "seal of approval," and to benefit from other resources and programs that we offer.
"The RFP: An Explanation" walks you through the questions in the online applications which reopens on January 3, 2012.
If we decide to request a Financial Supplement from applicants to the 2012-13 Catalogue. they will be contacted with information about what they need to include, and how to upload information to our site.
Financial Supplement
PLEASE NOTE that this year we will be holding free workshops with one of our partners, the accounting and auditing firm RAFFA, designed to help you understand and present your financial information. Workshops are not required but are very strongly recommended as they will help you to provide accurate information both for this and for other applications you might choose to submit. Two workshops will be held, one on February 14th, 2-4pm and the other on March 5th 2-4pm. Location is Smith & Wollensky's, 1112 19th Street NW (phone: 202-466-1100): 2 blocks from Farragut North metro.
Schedule
Online applications open on January 3, 2012 and remain open through mid-February. The evaluation process takes place in March. If we wish to see your financial information, we will request it in early to mid-April and provide you with instructions for uploading it to our site. Final decisions are usually made in early to mid-May. You will be notified by email whether the decision is positive or not. The new Catalogue comes out in early November -- in time for the "giving season."
Eligibility
501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in the Washington region with operating budgets of $3 million or below may be eligible to apply. Please remember that reviewers consider "appeal to donors" when evaluating an organization: if your appeal is extremely specialized or your group is open to "members only," you may wish to reconsider before applying. See "The RFP: An Explanation" (linked above) for detailed information about eligibility.
In order to remain part of the Catalogue family, and to continue being featured on our website, Catalogue charities must reapply every four years. This means that those most recently featured in the 2008-09 Catalogue ARE eligible to reapply in 2012 and MUST reapply in 2012 if they wish to remain part of our network. They will participate in the same review process as new applicants. Those who applied last year or the year before and were re-ceritifed to remain on the web but were not featured in the print Catalogue may reapply this year if they wish. Organizations featured in print Catalogues subsequent to 2008-09 are NOT eligible to apply this year.
