Summary Guidelines

Project summaries should be limited to two pages, 12-point font. Summaries should include the following sections:

• About Your Organization: In a paragraph, describe your organization, its mission, and how the mission relates to the problem you are seeking to address.
• Problem Statement: In a paragraph, please describe which aspect of gun violence your project will address.
• Project Description: Tell us about your project. Include goals, key stakeholders, project partners, and activities. Explain how the project addresses the problem as outlined in this summary, whether your strategy differs from previous work, and how the project will add value to Philadelphia. Please include in your project description any approaches you plan to use and any outcomes you will achieve within the 2-year time period of the project.
• Emerging Leader Fellow: Describe how the Emerging Leader Fellow will benefit from leading this project, including opportunities to develop professionally and learn new skills. Discuss your organization’s capacity to effectively supervise and mentor an Emerging Leader Fellow.

Access the Stoneleigh Foundation’s rubric for evaluating project summaries here.