{"id":8698,"date":"2020-01-10T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/?page_id=8698"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:17:38","slug":"how-we-prioritise-applications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/how-to-apply-for-a-grant\/how-we-prioritise-applications","title":{"rendered":"How we prioritise applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always receive more applications than we are able to fund so we have to make difficult decisions to spend our funds as effectively as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We use these overriding criteria in assessing applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Degree of need \u2013 areas of societal need where law as tool to bring about positive change and to prevent harm is under-resourced and under-developed, and where the Foundation has a distinct role to play. We will also consider here the size and resources of the organisation applying.<\/li>\n<li>Degree of benefit \u2013 where the applicants have the potential to use the law to bring about significant positive change and\/or to prevent harm in ways that are sustainable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In deciding which applications to shortlist, we particularly value the following qualities in organisations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lived experience at the heart of strategy and leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Accountability to communities served by the organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Connections between everyday injustice and advocating for change (locally, regionally or\u00a0nationally).<\/li>\n<li>A commitment to learning, including a reflective approach to improving their own practice.<\/li>\n<li>Supportive, inclusive environments for staff and volunteers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We acknowledge that organisations have different approaches and definitions of lived experience. We expect to see organisations being thoughtful about how it is meaningfully incorporated in their area of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always receive more applications than we are able to fund so we have to make difficult decisions to spend our funds as effectively as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8673,"parent":6015,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8698\/revisions\/11057"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelegaleducationfoundation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}