Foundation for Amigos de las Américas

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Grant
Program

Latin American Grant Program

The Foundation strives to help AMIGOS reach a new level of success and to provide opportunities for Volunteers to pioneer new initiatives. In its fifth year of offering grant opportunities to AMIGOS Volunteers and Project Staff, the Foundation supported numerous innovative projects throughout the Americas. It was the second year that an endowment fund, named after the founder of AMIGOS, helped support the grants. Guy Bevil, the founder and first Executive Director of AMIGOS, died in 2006. In honor of his work with AMIGOS, the Foundation established the Guy Bevil Leadership Fund to support its summer grant program. Thanks to the ingenuity and collaboration between community members and AMIGOS participants, these projects will make a lasting and sustainable difference in the lives of the beneficiaries as they honor the visionary founder of AMIGOS.

The following criteria are used in evaluating the grant proposals:

1.	Project furthers the mission of Amigos de las Américas in Latin America.
2.	Community beneficiaries were involved in the process of identifying and designing the project.
3.	Project is directed toward an entire community or a community group (e.g. school, youth group, etc.) instead of individuals or individual families.
4.	Project is actively supported by community members, local governments, local nonprofit agencies, or AMIGOS partner agencies.
5.	Project proposal is endorsed by the AMIGOS Latin American Programs Director.
6.	Project utilizes local resources and assets to the best extent possible and has been designed to be sustainable within the community.
7.	Grant project is an opportunity that goes above and beyond what AMIGOS would normally implement in a project area during the summer.

	Overview of 2009 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Overview of 2008 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Overview of 2007 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Overview of 2006 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Overview of 2005 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Overview of 2004 Grant Projects (PDF)
	Resources for Project Directors