The Lalor Foundation

Anna Lalor Burdick Program

Guidelines

Mission and Purpose

The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to educate young women about human reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life.

The Program focuses particularly on young women who have inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health, including the subjects of contraception and pregnancy termination, and as such may be particularly lacking options in their lives.

Funding Interests

Because limited foundation funding is available in the field of human reproductive education for young women, the trustees are interested in stretching the benefit of its grants as far as possible. Accordingly, the Anna Lalor Burdick Program emphasizes:

  • Support for one-time projects, ongoing projects, new projects and initiatives that demonstrate realistic plans to achieve greater financial self-sufficiency.

  • Support for new or smaller organizations, including grassroots efforts, where funding will increase public visibility, improve standing with funders, facilitate overall organizational development, or, in the case of the well defined projects of larger organizations, add a new dimension or capability to operations.

  • Support for collaborative efforts among nonprofit organizations.

  • Support for organizations that can demonstrate a proven ability to reach out to, include and involve young women with inadequate access to information regarding reproductive health.

  • Support for new ideas, initiatives and demonstration projects, which, if proven effective, may be successfully replicated or provide multiple benefits.

    Geographic Focus

    The Program has no geographic limits.

    Funding Availability and Limits

    The trustees award a small number of grants in the range of $10,000 to $50,000.

    Normally grants are awarded for one year only. Under special circumstances, renewals are considered, such as for projects which clearly require more than one year of support for effective implementation, or for projects which demonstrate outstanding results or promise during their first year.

    Eligibility

    Eligible U.S. applicants must be tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code, and defined as "not a private foundation" under section 509(a) of the Code.

    If the applicant is not located in the United States and has not already been classified by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, please contact the Foundation office at the address or phone number listed at the end of this document.

    Reproductive education must be the centerpiece of the proposed project, which should include attention to the subjects of contraception and pregnancy termination.

    The project must focus on young women, including young mothers and preteens.

    The proposal should include a succinct plan for assessing and reporting on the project's results. In this regard, the trustees are interested in learning from projects that have fallen short of expectations as well as those which have succeeded.

    Areas Where Grants Are Not Normally Made

    To full proposals submitted in advance of a concept paper that has been reviewed and approved by the trustees for further consideration.

    To individuals, or for individual research projects and scholarship.

    To requests for endowment or major capital support.

    To prior grantees which have failed to provide grant reports.

    To organizations with no track record or no personnel known to the trustees or to the staff at Grants Management Associates.