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Our
Funding Priorities and Guidelines 
Applying
to the Fund for 2010
WE
ARE NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FROM NEW PROJECTS
Over the past several years,
the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund has limited its funding to projects with
which we had a long-term relationship. Beginning in 2010, we will again
be considering proposals from new organizations. Please read the information
below, and if you have further questions feel free to write to us or
e-mail us by clicking here.
Funding
Guidelines
The Martín-Baró Fund has a strong preference for projects which
are developing innovative and progressive ways to deal with the mental
health consequences of violence and political repression. Applicants
should understand that we do not view mental health and human rights
as issues which can be addressed separately, but are seeking to fund
activities which explore the links between them.
You
can get a better idea of our interests by visiting some of the other
pages on this website. We particularly urge you to read our Mission
Statement, and to look at the descriptions of some of the projects
we have funded in the past. Please also keep in mind that we usually
fund only six to eight projects per year. Other factors which applicants
should consider are:
We prefer to support grassroots, community-based projects which focus
on the needs and concerns of the community as well as of the individual.
We are especially interested in supporting groups located in regions
harmed by U.S. policies and/or addressing problems created or aggravated
by those policies.
Our grants are usually no more than US$7,000. We prefer to fund projects
where our support will make a significant difference.
Almost all of the projects we fund are outside the United States.
Unfortunately, we can accept proposals in English or in Spanish only.
To
Submit an Application for 2010
Existing
Projects: If
you received a grant from the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund within the past
three years, you will be contacted by your Contact Person or another
member of the Program Committee.
New Projects:
If you
have never been funded by the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund before, or not
during the past three years, please note the following procedures:
Send us a 1-2 page letter of interest after May 1 and before September
1, 2009. Your letter should briefly describe the mental health
and/or human rights issues your proposed project seeks to address,
and how it will do so. Please be sure to include complete contact
information including, if possible, an email address. If we need additional
information or clarification, one of our members will contact you
after we receive your letter. You may submit your letter by regular
mail to the address below, by e-mail,
or by fax to (617) 469-3379. If possible, we will email you a confirmation
that your letter has been received.
Ignacio
Martín-Baró
Fund
Post Office Box 302122
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
U.S.A.
We will respond no later than December 31, 2009, letting you
know whether we would like you to submit a complete proposal. Remember,
only a very small number of projects will be invited to submit proposals,
and an even smaller number will receive funding.
Our deadline for final proposals will be March 15, 2010. Please
do not send a proposal unless you have been asked to do so. All applicants
will be contacted by a member of our Program Committee.
Download
Application Form
These are forms which we have used in previous years. THEY
MAY BE CHANGED this year. You may use these forms as guidelines for
planning only, but please do not send a full proposal unless and
until you have been asked to do so. If you are a new project interested
in applying to the Fund next year, you must follow the
procedures outlined above: the first step is to send us a 1-2 page letter
before September 1, 2009. Please include your mailing address and, if
possible, your email address as well.. We will contact you if we would
like you to submit a proposal.
You will need the program
Adobe
Acrobat to view these files. If you do not already have Acrobat
on your computer, you can download it for free from the Adobe website
by clicking on the name of the program above.
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English
to Spanish translations
courtesy
of Melisa Flores
©
2009, Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health & Human Rights
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