Fiscal Sponsorship

Hybrid Operating Model?

Organization's Capabilities

Please address the organization's capabilities in the following areas:

• Demonstrated success in producing quality candidates in this hiring market (Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, and Valencia counties);
• Initiatives creating opportunities for professional development, including hands-on training through internships, mentorships, and apprenticeships in STEM fields;
• Work performed with new graduates, returning students, and/or working learners in developing skills and securing certifications and/or licensures.

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Hire-Ready History & Prior Results Infographic

The Impact Grant funding opportunity prioritizes efforts that have a prior implementation history of supporting learners and students by equipping them with hire ready skill sets, certifications, and/or licensures, which prepare them for employment opportunities in cybersecurity, application development & management, and/or IT operations roles.

The Foundation is seeking a visual representation of efforts that communicates the organization’s direct activities in preparing and supporting hire-ready learners. To help the review team better understand the  organization's hire-ready implementation history (specific to this program / project model), please include an infographic (1-2 pages maximun), which includes a combination of the following information that directly relates to the program / project seeking Impact Grant funding support:

• Program/Project implementation start date (or year);
• number of learners served to date;
• type credentials and/or certifications earned;
• employment secured (or career pathways pursued, such as continuing education) [if known]; internships, apprenticeships, and/or mentorships attained;
• training program retention rates; and
• any other information that helps inform the outputs, which have contributed towards building a hire ready workforce in the Foundation's priority fields (cybersecurity, application development & management, and/or IT operations).

Organizational Chart

To help the Foundation understand the organization's staffing pattern and capacity, please upload a copy of the nonprofit organization's organizational chart, including Board of Directors and Staff. Consider including key Consultant(s) and Volunteer(s) roles, if necessary.

In the visual chart, please include:

• names,
• job tiltle/roles, and
• departments (if necessary).

Key Staff Implementers

Based on the organizational chart, please provide a short biographical description of the proposed program's / project's key implementers.

Include the following details:

• Name,
• Title/Role; and
• Job function that contributes to the effort's success.

Knowledge of Current Service Gap

Please provide an analysis of the technology-related, workforce service-gap area that the proposed effort's program / project model is seeking to support.

In the narrative, please include responses to the following:

• (1) What is the problem area / workforce service-gap that the effort is seeking to address?;
• (2) How does the organization know that this is a problem area / workforce service-gap opportunity?;
• (3) Is the problem area / workforce service-gap currently being served by other training providers? If so, how?
• NOTE: Please cite and include verifiable sources that provides evidence of the current or perceived service gap.

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Hire-Ready Program / Project Model Narrative

Please address how the proposed effort's program model, methodologies, and/or strategies will support STEM workforce development efforts in cybersecurity, application development & management, and/or IT operations.

This section is designed to gather insights about the how the proposed effort will positively contribute to the development of a hire-ready workforce via its program delivery model, instruction methods, and practices, which includes, but is not limited to:

• Organization specific curriculum;
• Training design and delivery methods;
• Certifications or licensures earned;
• Hands-on learning experiences, such as internships or apprenticeships; and/or
• Professional development coaching support.

In this section, the Foundation is interested in learning more about your organization's approach to supporting learners beyond only delivering training.

Please describe how your effort supports or intends to support learners earning a certification (or industry recognized credential) during the grant term AND provides hands-on or work based learning opportunities, which fosters training, credential attainment, and/or work experiences to be hire-ready for the digital workforce.

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Anticipated Implementation Timeline

Impact Grant funds may be used to implement proposed efforts between the next 12-24 months.

The Foundation expects award decisions to occur by mid-December 2026.

With this information in place, the Foundation requests that Impact Grant implementation start by January 2027 or later.

Direct Outputs & Skills

Please address the direct outputs that the organization expects will result from a fully funded Impact Grant proposal.

In the narrative, please include the following:

• Number of hire-ready candidates cultivated;
• Number of program participants;
• Scope of technology skills acquired;
• Current or prospective employment partners; and
• Other related professional development support services.

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Program Evaluation

Please describe the organization's method(s) for evaluating the success of the proposed effort.

[750-word limit]

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Scaling

The Foundation is interested in supporting scalable, technology-related workforce development efforts in Central and Northern NM.

A nonprofit’s programming may be scalable through its ability to be duplicated or replicated at a difference location. Scaling could also be developed in terms of an organization’s ability to license or franchise its training program and/or curriculum.  However, scaling takes time. Amongst other considerations, organization’s must be knowledgeable of their program models, key performance indicators, and critical staff roles must be in place to effectively scale an effort.

Using the broad scaling definition below, please describe how the organization seeks to scale the proposed Impact Grant effort and how the organization is currently in the best position to scale the hire-ready program.

Scaling in the social and educational sectors can broadly be defined by doing one or more of the following:

• improving the quality of a solution to increase impact;
• reaching a larger audience;
• expanding program operations;
• growing the organization; and/or
• replicating (or duplicating) the solution in different communities.

–Source: “Essentials of Social Innovation: Scaling” published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Outreach

What activities will be taken to reach / actively engage with individuals who wish to be part of the digital workforce, such as, individuals underrepresented in technology fields?

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Retention

What activities will be taken to retain learners who have been recruited to participate in the proposed effort? If possible, cite evidence of the organization's practices that have been used to support learner retention. Please be specific and concrete.

NOTE: The Foundation regularly sees and supports efforts that have a 90% learner retention rate.

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Impact Grant Budget

Please use the space below to upload a budget that is specific to the Impact Grant amount requested. The Foundation also requests a budget narrative and description of funding partners, if applicable.

Capacity Building

“[Capacity building] is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future.”

Source: A Network Approach to Capacity Building (National Council of Nonprofits)

New for the 2026 Impact Grant cycle, the Foundation is interested in gathering Impact Grant awardees together in early 2027 to crowdsource capacity building areas and to implement a shared capacity building through expertise cohort to address one mutually agreed upon area.

Using the listed organizational areas below as guidance, please describe what capacity building area (address only one area) your organization will seek to address, which helps advance your mission and hire-ready capabilities:

1. Staffing & Professional Development
2. Fundraising Development
3. Program Evaluation
4. Grant Management
5. Financial Management
6. Other areas?

If awarded a 2026 Impact Grant, this narrative section will help inform a shared approach to support a cohort based, capacity building through expertise effort in 2027.

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Scope of Partnership

To qualify, collaborating organizations must each hold a 501(c)3 charitable status and/or be under fiscal sponsorship. If one or both parties are under fiscal sponsorship, the fiscal sponsor relationship must in place for at least 6 months.

The Scope of Partnership narrative seeks out the following information:

• Describe the shared goals of the collaboration and how the partnership will advance each organization, respectively;
• Describe each organization's strengths in relation to the partnership;
• Describe how the organization's anticipate the partnership will be sustained after the grant period; and
• Describe how the collaboration will mutually serve the constituents that each organization serves, specifically in support of developing a hire-ready, technology workforce in the Foundation's priority areas.

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