Sample RFPs, Contracts, Agreements

Sample RFPs, Contracts, and Grantee Agreements

Foundations can find here sample RFPs, scoring rubrics, and letters of agreement that can be adapted to initiatives and other contexts.

Requests for Proposals

Foundations may choose to release an RFP related to whole family work in order to encourage partnerships across grantees that result in a whole family approach.

Below are sample RFPs and scoring rubrics, where available, that can be adapted for individual foundation contexts.

Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona’s annual request for proposals included a focus on two-generation, whole family approaches.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation: STEPS, Supporting Transitions to Employment for Parents, was an initiative focused on whole family approaches to employment that eventually funded six workforce organizations to implement pilot projects in partnership with early childhood centers. You can download the RFPs, or the Scoring Rubric for Proposal Submissions.
United Way of Greater Cincinnati invested a portion of its funds on family-centered, two-generation approaches.
The National Association of Workforce Boards and Innovate + Educate released a family-centered employment RFP for a learning community among workforce boards.

Grant Agreements or Contracts

Foundations may also wish to include specific language on whole family strategies in grant agreements, particularly as it relates to metrics and accountability.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation has a sample grant agreement that can be adapted to individual foundation contexts.

Engaging Communities in Grant Review Processes

The Women’s Foundation of Colorado offers a sample committee interest form and committee structure document.

A Word About Language

Whole family, multi-generational approaches meet the needs of and provide opportunities for children and the adults in their lives together. These approaches are highly contextual, and may be called “whole family,” “two-generation or two-gen,” and “multi-generational” approaches in some organizations, communities, and contexts. Particularly for Indigenous communities, an approach that supports multiple generations within a home or family is important. The goal of a whole family, multigenerational approach is to ensure economic, educational, and health stability and mobility for the whole family, using mechanisms and strategies that give both generations in the family a balloon, and not one a dead weight.

This guide uses “whole family” for consistency and ease of reading; and encompasses the meanings of these other terms.

This guide also uses “parents,” which includes caregivers, mothers, fathers, grandparents, and others who are in the lives of children. Families are defined by the families themselves in our view, rather than by an outside agency, and the guide reflects this as well.

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