Nonprofit Excellence Program (NEP) Grant Application Section 1 | Organizational InformationOrganization Name(Required) Organization EIN(Required) Organization Website(Required) Please describe your organization's mission, vision, and values:(Required)Executive Director/CEO name:(Required) First Last Executive Director/CEO email address:(Required) Executive Director/CEO phone number:(Required)Board Chair/President name(Required) First Last Please note: CNE will include the organization’s Board Chair in emails related to grant awards.Board Chair/President email address:(Required) Board Chair/President phone number:(Required)Contact name for application (if different from ED/CEO): First Last Contact title: Contact email address: Contact phone number:Have you completed the Nonprofit Excellence Program – 7AP Organizational Assessment?(Required) Yes No Applications will only be considered after the survey have been submitted. Select your organization’s focus area from the list below (select all that apply):(Required) Community cohesion and engagement Entrepreneur education and economic development activities Housing and transportation Workforce education Section 2 | Need – 30%What were your key takeaways from the 7AP Organizational Assessment? Please reflect on your organization’s capacity strengths and areas for improvement. What, if anything, surprised you or gave you pause? How did the results help clarify your leadership priorities for organizational capacity building in the year ahead?(Required)The Nonprofit Excellence Program provides capacity-building support across the following six categories: Budgeting/Financial Management, Fundraising/Resource Development, Governance/Board Development, Leadership Development, Evaluation, and Strategy. Please describe your organization’s top capacity challenge that aligns with one or more of these six capacity-building categories. How is this challenge affecting your organization?(Required)If your organization is facing other pressing capacity challenges in any of the six categories, please briefly describe those here (optional)Section 3 | Impact – 50%In what ways would addressing your most critical capacity challenge with capacity-building support improve your organization’s ability to advance its mission and increase impact?(Required)What type of consulting support or specific project would help your organization tackle your most critical capacity challenge and what would success look like? Please describe your desired activity or activities, outcome(s), and corresponding deliverable(s) of a successful consulting engagement.(Required)Section 4 | Readiness – 20%Who will serve as the primary project lead and main point of contact for this initiative? This person will coordinate with CNE (including onboarding and midpoint check-in meetings) and with the consultant (including scope development and engagement management)? Please include the individual’s name, title, email address, and phone number.(Required)Who else from your organization plans to actively participate in this project? Please list names and titles.(Required)How will your organization ensure the success of this engagement? Please address both (a) How you will allocate staff time and capacity during the consulting engagement (including active participation, project scoping and management, feedback, and completion of required reports and assessments), and (b) How you will integrate the outcomes and learnings from this work into your organization’s ongoing operations, systems, structure, and culture.(Required)By clicking submit, you authorize that your organization’s leadership has reviewed and approved this application for submission.
