Letter of Inquiry Guidelines

So that each applicant can receive fair and equal evaluation, The Home Instead Senior Care Foundation has established Letter of Inquiry Guidelines. The Foundation Office accepts one Letter of Inquiry, per organization, per grant cycle. To improve the chance you will receive a positive response to your inquiry, we encourage you to follow directions; include the required criteria and use subheadings to indicate sections of your three-page letter.  Incomplete letters will not be considered. Letters must include these elements:

• Name, address and phone number of the organization 
• Relevant contact person at organization
• Brief history of organization and description of its mission
• Date/year the organization was recognized with tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Code of the United States or in Canada as a registered charity by the Canada Revenue Agency 
• Description of project/problem, including major objectives and expected outcome
• Number of seniors to be served by the project
• Amount of funding requested from The Foundation with specifics on how the organization will apply grant dollars to the project and the amount of financial support available from other sources
• Relevance of the project to the mission of The Foundation
• Uniqueness of project: explain the difference between this project and others which may address the same problem
• Method(s) to be used to carry out project
• Tentative project schedule
• Criteria to evaluate outcome and means used to disseminate results
• Plans to sustain project after requested funds expire
• Qualifications of the principal investigator (research grants)/key contact responsible for project oversight at organization

Do not mail supplemental material to The Foundation.

Please contact The Foundation Office with any questions regarding our grant requirements at 402.455.0883. 

You may upload one comprehensive Letter of Inquiry Word (.doc/.docx) or Text (.txt) document through the link provided below. Do not upload a Portable Document Format (.pdf.) Use the name of your organization followed by LOl as the name of your Word or Text document, (e.g. ABC Senior Services LOl.doc).

NOTICE: The information you provide in this grant application and its related attachments may be disclosed to third parties. The Home Instead Senior Care Foundation may also contact third parties for the purpose of obtaining additional information and/or references in connection with its evaluation of your application.