CHICAGO FUNDING APPLICATION FORM

Guidance for Completing this Application

This form is for all sport for development organizations applying for funding from Laureus Sport for Good USA.

Upon completion of the form you will receive confirmation that your application has been submitted, and you will receive a PDF copy of your application for your records.

We are solely a Sport-Based Youth Development (SBYD) funder. We believe that the intentional integration of youth development *during* sports/ physical activity programming is an effective evidence-based approach to reaching the hardest to reach children and youth.

Laureus Sport for Good USA

Our Mission

We improve the lives of youth and unite communities through the power of sport.

Our Commitments

We read applications for effort and authenticity, not grammar, style, or skill in grant-writing.
We prioritize programs that are reaching the hardest to reach populations, including system-involved children and youth, those disconnected from school or work, LGBTQ+ and/or gender and sexual minority youth, refugee children and youth, and children and youth with physical and mental difference.
We prioritize programs that are diverse in staff, board, and volunteers and demonstrate an on-going commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We only fund SBYD development programs. To be considered as an SBYD program, primary program objectives must be reached via a clear and direct intersection between sports and/or physical activity and intentional youth outcomes.

Supporting Documents

Please provide the following in support of this application

(You'll be asked to upload them on page 10)

Required:

Proposed Budget Using Linked Uniform Template (Please review the RFP, and Budget Development Tips for instructions/advice on completing the budget)
IRS 501(C)3 determination letter
Most recent 990
Your organization's Child Protection or Safeguarding Policy
Organization Operating Budget
Programmatic Risk Assessment Linked Here (Please complete but do not sign)

Optional:

Program curriculum
Additional documents or links to any external research or evaluations into the social impact of your activities

Section 1: Organization Information

1.2 Applicant Organization Contact Person Details

Please provide your main point of contact for this application process, as well as a programmatic and financial point of contact that would act as point people for the grant if you were to receive it. We understand that this might be the same person depending upon the size of your organization.

	Salutation	Name	Job Title	Email
Application / Grant Point of Contact
Programmatic Point of Contact
Financial Point of Contact


Application / Grant Point of Contact

Section 1: Organization Information

1.3 Program Description (Training)

In this section we ask for details on the program for which you are requesting funding, this includes a summary of the program, why it is needed, what activities will be run and for whom, how it was designed and how you measure its impact.

Please tell us about the need for your program in the communities you serve

How does your program intentionally train service providers to develop skills that promote positive coaching, trauma informed practices, and more?

How does your organization contribute to violence reduction and intervention in the training work you do? How do you measure the impact of your trainings?

1.3 Program Description (Direct Service)

The three questions below will allow readers to better understand your program design, implementation, and impact. Please be specific and respond to prompts fully as all decisions will be made based on their application alone.

Please tell us about the need for your program, why it exists, and what challenges it looks to address?

Please describe how your program intentionally uses sport to develop positive youth outcomes.

The program description should include an overall summary of programming including but not limited to mission and vision, recruitment strategy, duration of sessions (season, school- year, summer, etc.), and dosage (youth attend programming two times per week for 8 weeks).

How does your organization train coaches and/ or staff members to continually deliver engaging, relevant, and accessible programming to youth?

Section 2: Funding Request

2.1 Budget and Request

Below we will ask about your organizational annual budget, as well as the amount you are requesting. Please see the RFP for additional details but make sure to reference the suggestions below before finalizing your request.

Organizational Budget > 200k – Apply for 50k funding 
Organizational Budget 200k-1.5M – Apply for 50k or 75k funding

What is your organization’s annual budget?

What amount of funding are you applying for?

Please use the following links to fill out and submit your budget

i. Blank Template Budget (to be filled out and submitted)

ii. Sample Budget for Reference

iii. Budget Tips Document

iv. Budget Allowability Guide

2.2 Use of Funds

Describe the program(s) and/or projects(s) that this funding will be used to support.

How does your organization contribute to violence reduction and intervention in the communities you serve? How do you currently measure this impact?

Section 2: Funding Request

2.3 Program Participants

In this subsection we want to better understand the engagement you will have with the participants and / or communities your program is targeting with this specific funding (not necessarily every young person served through your program). Please bear in mind that you will need to collect data for the number of youth listed.

Please describe how your participants are impacted by violence in their communities.

Participants

Please estimate the total number of participants who will benefit from your program during the grant year.

	Total
0-5
6-11
12-14
15-17
18-25

Participants

Please estimate the total number of participants who will benefit from your program during the grant year.

	Total
Male
Female
Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants

Participants

Please estimate the total number of participants who will benefit from your program during the grant year.

	Total
Asian
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
American Indian or Alaska Native
Black or African American
Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Spanish origin
Non- Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Spanish origin
White
Other

	Total
Please confirm the grand total of unique participants
Please confirm the total of participants who identify as transgender
Please confirm the total of participants with disabilities

Approximate number of weeks that your programming runs over the course of one calendar year

Average number of hours that an individual participant completes in your program per week (while programming is in session)

Section 3: Safeguarding

3.1 Safeguarding Children and Young People

All children and young people have the right to participate in sport in a safe and enjoyable environment and their rights are enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). For the purposes of safeguarding, Sport for Good adopts the UNCRC’s definition of a child – anyone under the age of 18. However, we encourage organizations to also include young people within their safeguarding policies to ensure organizations are providing the level of protection required to vulnerable young people over the age of 18 too. In this section we ask about your organization’s approach to protecting the children you work with from risks of harm and any form of abuse.

Do you have a safeguarding children and young people policy in place?

If yes, when was it updated for the last time?

Has it been signed off by your board?

When is your safeguarding policy due for a next revision?

How often do you provide training on safeguarding to staff?

What mechanisms do you have in place to ensure that children, young people and parents/caregivers are aware of and understand your child safeguarding policy and procedures?

When was the last time you provided training on safeguarding to staff?

Section 4: Governance, Leadership, and Equity

4.1. Governance

In this section we focus on governance in relation to the make-up of the board of governors/trustees of your organization. The main role of a board is to establish policies, make significant and strategic decisions and to oversee the organisation’s activity.

Please fill in the below table to clarify the make-up of your board of directors.

Please estimate the total number of participants who will benefit from your program during the grant year.

	Male	Female	Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants	People representative of target communities	People with disabilities	Total
Board Members			Transgender, Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants	Transgender, Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants	Transgender, Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants

4.2. Leadership & Staff

How representative (inclusive but not necessarily limited to demographics and lived experience) is your staff, volunteers, and board of the community you serve?

Racial and Ethnic Identity of your CEO/ Executive Director

Gender Identity of your CEO/ Executive Director

Staff chart of your organization: this refers to the people working in your organization, not only the staff that will work in the program you are applying for funding for.

	Male	Female	Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants
Full-time Staff			Transgender, Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants
Part-time Staff
TOTAL

From the data above, please indicate how many of them are:

	Male	Female	Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants
People representative of your target communities			Transgender, Non- binary, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and/ or sexual and gender minority participants
Volunteers
People with disabilities

Section 5: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

5.1 Outcomes

Are you using the Hello Insight One Time Check-in Tool to measure social emotional learning (SEL) outcomes?

Organizations that don’t currently have access to Hello Insight will receive access to use the one time check-in tool free of charge. If your organization uses the platform or adopts it for this grant, you will not be required to fill out any other outcome information below. Laureus will support organizations who are new to the tool get started and provide ongoing assistance as needed. Given the timeline of this funding, organizations will be permitted to use the one-time Check In Tool rather than a pre/post survey.

If your organization decides to measure social emotional learning (SEL) outcomes using another tool, you must fill out those indicators individually and report them back to Laureus at midterm and annual reporting times. Once you check the “no “ option below, you will be asked to fill in the indicator table.

Yes, we already use Hello Insight (pre/post or Check-In Tool) and will continue to through this grant period. We grant Laureus USA permission to access our Hello Insight data.Yes, we will start using Hello Insight Check-In Tool to collect data through the Laureus scholarship.No, we will use a different tool to measure outcomes.

For this pool of funding, Laureus USA and ICJIA are focused on measuring the CDC’s protective factors youth participants gain through participation in SBYD programming by capturing data around youth participants social emotional learning (SEL) capacities. Please describe what data collection method you will use to report back on the seven CDC protective factors.

Program Activities

What activities will you deliver through your program? (E.g. workshops; sport sessions; events; tournaments; staff training; MEL activities, etc.)

Please give a detailed description of the participants that will attend these activities. (e.g. children aged x-y; young people aged x-y; parents; teachers; specific community members you will be targeting; staff from your organization; etc.). Please include age and gender details where possible.

How frequently will these participants be involved in these activities? (e.g. on a weekly, monthly basis, etc.)

Please select the quarters (s) that training activities will be taking place

Location of where you will be delivering these activities. (e.g. in school, local club, community etc.)

Number of coaches trained

Number of training sessions / workshops held

Section 5: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

5.2 Program Learning

Laureus USA places significant value on organizations that prioritize learning throughout delivery. We are therefore interested in hearing about any learning questions you have developed to explore whether what you are delivering is effective?

Please provide 2-3 learning questions that you are currently working to answer.

Use of learning: How do you intend to use and share the learning generated throughout the year?

Laureus wants to leverage this grants program to show how sport can be impactful in young peoples’ lives and in their communities. If your organization is interested in participating/ being involved in additional data collection, please indicate below.

My organization is willing to participate in qualitative data collection such as community conversations and case studies.My organization is willing to share additional quantitative data with Laureus USA that we collect through our program(s).My organization would be willing to share content including but not limited to videos, pictures, success stories, etcMy organization is not interested in further collaboration

Section 6: Supporting Documents

Please provide the following in support of this application

Most recent 990

IRS 501(C)3 determination letter

Organizational operating budget

Budget Template (Template found here)

Programmatic risk assessment (linked here) (Please complete but do not sign)

Additional documents or links to any external research or evaluations into the social impact of your activities

Program Curriculum (optional)

Additional Document 2

Additional Document 3

Additional Links