Congratulations! You’ve received a grant from the Bee Vradenburg Foundation. The foundation is eager to build a partnership with our grantees and we look forward to forging a strong relationship. We are deeply grateful to nonprofits such as yours that – through your creativity and outreach – help to build a stronger and more vibrant community through the arts and thus help the foundation to fulfill its mission.
Notification of your grant will come with a grant agreement. Please sign the agreement, keep a copy for your records and return the original to the foundation. We realize that the amount of the grant will come with different levels of recognition that you have deemed suitable for your organization. Your letter confirming funding likely will contain specifics about appropriate levels of recognition for the foundation. A few reminders:
- Click here to download a foundation logo for use on your organization’s printed materials, websites, e-blasts etc.
- When acknowledging the foundation from the stage/microphone, please remember that the full name of the foundation is “Bee Vradenburg Foundation” (not just “Vradenburg Foundation”) and that “Vradenburg” is pronounced VRAY-den-burg.
- For display ads within programs, please contact the foundation at least two weeks in advance in order to allow us time to prepare a properly sized, customized ad.
- If you’ve received a challenge grant, we want to help ensure the success of your challenge. We know it is highly effective when a personal communication from the foundation is included in your fundraising letter to stakeholders. Please contact us in advance of preparing your fundraising campaign and we will be happy to supply a personal note encouraging support for your organization. The foundation executive director always is happy to speak at your fundraising events to encourage support to meet challenge grants.
Final Reports
For all organizations that receive a grant, we ask you to email a few digital images of your organization for our files. Ideally these images may come from an event directly funded by the foundation, but in some cases we realize the image may by necessity be more general. Keeping your images on file helps the foundation to better tell your story through our website and e-newsletters. Also, please remember that foundation trustees live in four U.S. time zones, so images from your organization are especially helpful in better connecting out-of-town trustees to your organization. Grants greater than $2,500 require recipients to file a final report with the foundation. Final report forms are downloadable here. Organizations must file a final report on prior grants before being eligible to apply for another grant.
For grants of $2,500 or less, a final report form is not required. However, we do ask grantees to provide us with a short letter that summarizes in a paragraph or two the event/project that was funded, attendance/participation levels, and your general assessment of the success of the event and possible challenges you faced.