templates

On this page that you are now reading, you will find information about, and above you will find the buttons that link to, our templates wherein we do everything for you except fill in the answers (which obviously are your own unique responses). USE THESE TEMPLATES (copy them verbatim to the media you use for your responses).

It seems as if just one or two of you insist upon doing things your own way. That's fine if you really are trying to annoy us. Right now, the Founder's health concerns and time concerns mandate that we start applying UNIFORMITY to the annual grant input formats. So, starting in 2012, after you once again review the web-site, and most specifically the site map for all of the pages noted with a (C), you will then be ready to start on the Checklist (summary). That page gives you your path, your directions, your best guide, or as we have called it. your checklist. The next thing is to understand HOW to send things to us; We, here, explain how you are to send us an exact picture (a "template") for each of the documents you send to us each year.

Some notes are in order. To illustrate each of the individual input forms (see the click-on buttons at the top of this page), we will assume that the grantee is named "Example Organization" and therefore their code name would be EXAMP. We will also assume the following dates in our example. The grants will be paid in the Spring of 2012, therefore the Grant Year would be 2012 (even if you are responding to something due Oct 31 2011), the current year (for purposes of the financial statements would be 2011 (or the year just ended, if you're preparing the statements in January 2012), and the prior year would be 2010, and the next year - for the budget or forecast - would be 2013).The templates are in a form (or format) so that you can copy them directly from our web-site and paste them onto your own MSWord document as your starting point. This will save you time (and where we have made changes from the prior year, it will help you make sure that you have the latest up-to-date questions that you are to answer) and save us time as the questions will be uniform and the answers will be comparable from one to another grantee-to-grantee. DO NOT EDIT (other than as noted ON the template itself) any of our questions. We want answers to our questions, not questions changed by you. If necessary, in your responses, you can describe any problems that the unedited questions caused you.

Then, just use the following color coding methods to complete each input document. The following color coding applies ONLY to the following three template pages, which are "due oct 31", "due Nov1-Jan15", and "due Jan 31"

Be sure you are aware of our Calendar and the critical dates that apply to you, the grantees, and read especially the two notes, marked (A) on that page. The "due dates" are the dates we expect to receive your responses, not the beginning of a period of your making. How you comply with the due dates and requirements for the three templates (on time and with full - FULL - transparent answers) is part of what we expect of any organization that is beginning to meet the continuity requirements.

Things you should read, then possibly but not always change when you ENTER your own information, and then if changed, you can change the color coding to BLACK

Things you should read as they are instructive in nature, but you most often should delete or erase them (and close up the empty space where they were) before sending them to us. (GREEN)

Things that ask questions or make statements that will remain on the input, but which will be followed by the below... (NAVY)

Responses by you to the above questions or statements from us, that respond to the above questions or statements. (BLACK)

Your changes (due to this year's editings, deletions, additions) to the above that was otherwise THE SAME as you sent us last year. Note that in these cases, after the grants have been paid, the changes are to be re-colored in BLACK on your own permanent records to match previous permanent answers and thereby become part of your ongoing response. (RED).

Be sure that you read and understand and consider the implications for your organization of the new fact that we are going to dissolve this Foundation a short time after the Founder's death, whether or not you have met all of our requirements WELL BEFORE his death. Your share of the endowment will be decided by him before he dies AND it will be based upon your cumulative input year after year. You have been provided guidance on this in the table at the top of subsequent changes

Continuing below, this one last "helper" for our grantees. The very most important webpages (that should be read EVERY year by EVERY grantee) are defined and designated with a "(C)" on our site map page. To aid you in referring back and forth between this checklist page and each of those pages, we include below a table of links between each of these pages. The links are listed (more or less, but mostly) in the order of their "completion by you (and necessity)" basis.

checklist (summary)	use these templates to create your input for the year	certification - use this for preliminary work	continuity - defined & discussed
transparency - defined & discussed	financials-example - use this format	disclosures- examples for your fin'l statements	ongoing requirements for each year
some details - including "how to reply"	1st year requirement - if applicable	eligibility - if applicable	our calendar - for your information
subsequent changes - use after Founder's death	site map for this MPWCF website

Finally, let's go on to the various due date pages. Click on one of the buttons at the top of this page.

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