The Bildner Fund is designed to benefit the Princeton University community by supporting new intergroup programming efforts. The Fund will provide financial support for efforts to improve and enhance understanding among our increasingly diverse community members and groups, both on and off campus. Through this Fund, it is hoped that organizations will diversify their programmatic efforts and engage in collaborative efforts with other individuals and groups within our community with the goal of strengthening the complexity and depth of the organizations' and the community's understanding of others.

2004-05 Proposal Deadlines
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Thursday, March 3, 2005
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Applications should be sent to Dean Monique Rinere, Butler College, Wu Hall, 2nd floor. (f you have a time-sensitive proposal that falls between these dates, please contact Dean Monique Rinere (mrinere@princeton.edu) directly.
 

Criteria
The criteria for receiving support from the Bildner Fund shall be as follows:

• The proposed program should offer members of the Princeton community the opportunity for meaningful inquiry, interaction, and learning around ethnic, racial, religious and/or other differences. Such programs should encourage the participants to examine their own assumptions, habits, and prejudices by exposing them to other experiences and perspectives.
• The application must describe a new program; it is not intended to support existing activities.
• Applications must reflect the sponsorship of at least two distinctly diverse groups and include a description of the partnerships or collaborations with other offices, groups, or community organizations necessary to plan and implement the program.
• The application must state the diverse audiences or sets of participants that the program is designed to attract.
• The applicants must be prepared to explain in the application the ways in which the collaborative effort will strength our community with respect to increasing intergroup understanding.

Procedure
Proposals should include the following information:

• ·Name of sponsoring groups
• Title of program
• Description of program
• Timetable of program development
• Schedule of program itself
• Description of ways in which intergroup understanding will be enhanced, including benefits to the individual participants, to the groups, to the community, etc.
• Detailed qualifications of program leaders (guest speakers, facilitators, etc.)
• Description of the participants (If size limited, what are selection criteria?)
• Participants' qualifications, if any
• Detailed budget
• List of all efforts to meet budget and timeline
• Outline of program evaluation (program evaluation will have to be completed at conclusion of program, and will be made available to other groups for community historical memory and to increase collective learning)
   

If your proposal is incomplete, you will be asked to complete it before the committee will consider it. If there are unanswered questions or concerns, you will be contacted with follow-up questions.

Evaluation

Your program's evaluation will be due within 14 days of the completion of your program.