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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DUNEDIN Dana Beck Fancher Missions Funding Application Form PDF format (typeable) Word .doc format Guidelines for Electronic Submission of Applications Your kind compliance to these guidelines will greatly facilitate the processing of your application. 1. Electronic submission of applications is greatly preferred over the submission of paper. Please, save yourself considerable postage, and save DBF the considerable time required to scan your paper application. Save a tree. Save a river. Save the petroleum required to transport your envelope. Be kind to the planet. Please email your application instead of sending paper. 2. Ideally, the application should be submitted as a single PDF file or PDF Package. Of course, it is strongly to your advantage to assemble the PDF as it seems reasonable to you rather than to leave this task up to the best guess of the DBF chairperson. 3. Slightly less ideally, your application may be submitted as a series of separate PDF files. Free software, such as PDFcreator or CutePDF, is available for Windows to produce PDF versions of your files. Mac OS can print to PDF format without additional software. If you are sending multiple PDF files rather than a single file, then please name the files with a designation of numeric order so that we can more easily assemble them into a PDF package. For example: 01-CoverLetter.pdf, 02-DBFapplication.pdf, etc. 4. It is pretty far from ideal to send dozens of separate files of various formats, for example, .xls, .doc, .docx, .jpg, etc. These should be converted to .pdf and consolidated into as few files as possible. 5. The PDF(s) can be emailed as attachments to dbf@fpcdunedin.org. Or the PDF can be placed on a server and a link to the file can be emailed. 6. Please send only one application per email message. 7. If you would like to send a paper copy of the application as well as the electronic copy, that can be helpful, but it is not at all necessary. Suggestions for Stronger Applications We typically have several times as many requests as we have available funds. As a result, tough decisions must be made; competition for scarce resources is a blunt fact; and awards may not measure up to the amounts requested. In the evaluation of applications, we are looking for return on investment in terms of suffering alleviated and Gospel propagated. An application that demonstrates a comparatively stronger claim to these ends will fare better than some others in the competition. Also, a project that must be cancelled if it fails to receive the full amount requested may be at a disadvantage compared to other projects that can make productive use of partial awards.