Hardware Grants Eligibility

This is a page for brainstorming ideas about improving the grants approval process.

Options For Verifying Grants

There are two parts to verifying an grant's eligibility. The first is to verify the eligibility of the organization. Options for doing this are:

• Check business registry.
• Check website. (What do we look for?)
• Check contacts from website: like board members, other people in positions of leadership.
• Ask for paperwork like brochures, etc.
• Ask to see organizational plan.
• Interview them about projects, past, present, and future. (Other questions?)
• Ask them about what they intend to use the equipment for

The second is to verify the contact's association with the eligible organization.

• Do they have an organizational e-mail?
• Is their name on the website?
• Call another contact from the website if possible. Can they vouch for the person who contacted Free Geek?

Red Flags

These signs should make us look more closely at a grant. They do *not* mean that a grant is in ineligible.

• Non-organizational e-mail
• No extra contacts provided
• Not in the business registry or not listed as "Public Benefit"
• Shipping materials overseas
• Vague purpose for equipment
• Vague purpose of organization