2014 Sea Pact Funding Application

Instructions: Please fill out the following form in detail. Note that there is a 250-word maximum for each field. When complete, please return via email to no later than August 25th, 2014.Applicants will be notified of funding decisions in late September 2014.

Project Name:

Category of Project (check all that apply):

Gear or Farm Improvements
Fisheries Management
Fishery Habitat Restoration
Fisheries Improvement Project
Aquaculture Improvement Projects / Species Research and Data Collection
Research to Improve Farming Practices
Wild Stock Enhancement
Regional Aquaculture Management
Fisheries Conservation

Briefly describe your project and goals (250 words or less):

Project Location/ Management Area(s), Country or Geographic Scope in which activities will take place:

Species involved: Scientific and common names:

Total Amount Requested (In U.S. Dollars):

What Percentage of Total Project Budget Are You Requesting?

Does this project have the capability of receiving matching funds from any organization or individual?

Yes No

Is this project: Non-Profit or For-Profit?

Permission to share: In the event that this project is not awarded a Sea Pact grant, may Sea Pact present this grant application on to other potential funders? Yes No

Project Details (all fields have a 250 word limit)

  1. Summarize the project’s ultimate objectives and timeline:
  2. What are the expected benefits of the project and to whom?
  3. How will the project’s objectives be monitored and its impacts measured?
  4. How does your project align with Sea Pact’s mission to improve global seafood sustainability?
  5. What need, gap, or opportunity does your project address?
  6. How do you plan to continue the operation and funding of the project/program in the future 3 to 5 years from now?
  7. Detail how the funds will be used including salaries, purchases, operating costs:
  8. Are there current opportunities that make your project advantageous or it’s timing crucial?
  9. What are the difficulties, weaknesses and risks (internal and external) that threaten the project? How will your team manage these?
  10. What Legal, Economic, Social or Environmental issues motivated this project’s design and development?
  11. How will the design of this project and your organization’s strengths help your team meet its project objectives?
  12. Describe your organization, its mission, history, and affiliations with Government, NGO’s, Academia, and 3rd Party Consultants.
  13. Describe other current programs and accomplishments:
  14. If there is additional information that is vital to convey such as financial, legal, operational or administrative clarifications please do so here.
  15. Please list any relevant websites here:
  16. If you are a for-profit entity, please explain what broad and direct charitable purpose or public benefit your proposal would serve and why this is not something
    an investor in the company could/should pay for:

*For-Profit entities must provide the following if selected:

  • Evidence that there is no private benefit of a grant donation to the For Profit recipient, as defined by the IRS
  • Evidence that grants are for the use of a broad and direct charitable purpose or public benefit

*Non-Profit entities must provide the following if selected:

  • IRS Determination Letter (International: 501c3 equivalency determination, translated into English and notarized)
  • Most Recent 990
  • Audited Financials (if available)
  • Organizational Budget
  • Board and Staff List