Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation Open Call Grants 
 
Application Open: August 1
Application Close: September 15
Review Open: October 1
Review Close: December 30
Grant Award Notification: January

Send a Letter of Intent and Full Application to grants@thekappafoundation.org.

You will be notified within two to four weeks that your LOI has been received. If approved you will be asked to submit a full proposal. Please allow approximately one to three months for a decision on your inquiry, at which time you will receive a letter of declination or approval of your grant and admission into the grantee’s circle for the funding year.

• Submit a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) during the Kappa Alpha Psi Grant Foundation Request for Proposal announcement window. The LOI should follow the guidelines below”
• Submitting a full grant proposal to the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation
• Grant Management

The letter of inquiry should be brief—no more than three pages—and must be a succinct but thorough presentation of the need or problem you have identified, the proposed solution, and your organization’s qualifications for implementing that solution. The letter of inquiry should be addressed to the appropriate contact person at a foundation or to its CEO and should be sent by regular mail.

Like a grant proposal, the letter of inquiry should include the following sections:

The introduction serves as the executive summary for the letter of inquiry and includes the name of your organization, the amount needed or requested, and a description of the project. The qualifications of project staff, a brief description of evaluative methodology, and a timetable are also included here.

The organization description should be concise and focus on the ability of your organization to meet the stated need. Provide a very brief history and description of your current programs while demonstrating a direct connection between what is currently being done and what you wish to accomplish with the requested funding. You will flesh this section out in greater detail if you are invited to submit a full proposal.

The statement of need must convince the reader that there is an important need that can be met by your project. The statement of need includes a description of the target population and geographical area, appropriate statistical data in abbreviated form, and several concrete examples.

The methodology should be appropriate to your statement of need and present a clear, logical, and achievable solution to the stated need. Describe the project briefly, including major activities, names and titles of key project staff, and your desired objectives. As with the organization description, this will be presented in far greater detail in a full proposal.

Other funding sources being approached for support of this project should be listed in a brief sentence or paragraph. *

The final summary restates the intent of the project, affirms your readiness to answer further questions, and thanks the potential funder for its consideration. Note: Attachments should be included only at the direction of the potential funder and should be specific to its application guidelines.

*IMPORTANT. Grant requests above $3,000 in which the Foundation is the sole source of funding will be automatically declined. Programs must be able to show the ability to aptly sustain themselves beyond sole funding from the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation.

The grant proposal is the expanded version of the Letter of Inquiry. It must be a succinct but thorough presentation of the need or problem you have identified, the proposed solution, and your organization’s qualifications for implementing that solution. The letter of inquiry and full grant proposal should be addressed to the appropriate contact person at the foundation.  All grant submissions must be emailed in PDF format to grants@thekappafoundation.org

Please note all grant submissions must include a cover letter which includes the following
-Name of Organization
-Full Address
-Director
-Email
-Phone Number
-Website (if available)

Not including full contact information will result in automatic disqualification for the grant selection process.

Like a grant proposal, the letter of inquiry should include the following sections:

The introduction serves as the executive summary for the letter of inquiry and includes the name of your organization, the amount needed or requested, and a description of the project. The qualifications of project staff, a brief description of evaluative methodology, and a timetable are also included here.

We strongly recommend you place your budget and funding request to the Foundation within the introductory section.

The organization description should be concise and focus on the ability of your organization to meet the stated need. Provide a very brief history and description of your current programs while demonstrating a direct connection between what is currently being done and what you wish to accomplish with the requested funding. You will flesh this section out in greater detail if you are invited to submit a full proposal.

The statement of need must convince the reader that there is an important need that can be met by your project. The statement of need includes a description of the target population and geographical area, appropriate statistical data in abbreviated form, and several concrete examples.

The methodology should be appropriate to your statement of need and present a clear, logical, and achievable solution to the stated need. Describe the project briefly, including major activities, names and titles of key project staff, and your desired objectives. As with the organization description, this will be presented in far greater detail in a full proposal.

Logic Model must detail how you will measure your program/organization’s impact in quantitative and qualitative ways. You may also include anecdotal outcomes and measurements as well.

Other funding sources being approached for support of this project should be listed in a brief sentence or paragraph.  Strongly recommended for all organizations wishing to be funded above 3,000.00 You must detail any and all other funding sources as well as in-kind and volunteer sources. Proposals that ask the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation to be the sole funder or do not detail other funding sources will be disqualified.

The final summary restates the intent of the project, affirms your readiness to answer further questions, and thanks the potential funder for its consideration. Note: Attachments should be included only at the direction of the potential funder and should be specific to its application guidelines.

• All approved grantees will be required to submit an annual “impact” report to the Foundation by May 1^st of the year in which the grant was distributed. Grantees will invite the Kappa Foundation to do a site visit
• Submit videos/pictures and final report to be included in the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation annual report.

*Failure to comply with the guidelines will result in disqualification to apply for future grants for 1-2 years.