{"id":33589,"date":"2018-10-26T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33589"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T03:35:35","slug":"lenovo-foundation-launches-love-on-mini-grant-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/10\/26\/lenovo-foundation-launches-love-on-mini-grant-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Foundation launches &#8216;Love On Mini Grant&#8217; campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lenovo Foundation launched the Love On Mini Grant campaign. Applications are open to charitable NGOs around the world that are registered 501(c)3 non-profit organizations or their charitable equivalents.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of $150k USD will be given to organizations who propose new and innovative ideas for engaging minority, under resourced and diverse populations in STEM education. This is a direct reflection of the Lenovo Foundation\u2019s focus on increasing access to STEM education and empowering diverse, minority and under resourced populations around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applications will be evaluated by a group of Lenovo employees, including the Lenovo Philanthropy board, with help from the philanthropy Advisory Committee, a group of employees around the world who help coordinate philanthropy in their regions and offices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NGOs who are interested in applying should follow the specifics of applications below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organizations must be a registered U.S. 501(c)3 OR be able to provide all paperwork to pass the equivalency determination process of a U.S. 501(c)3.<\/li>\n<li>Applications should propose a way to engage minority\/diverse\/under resourced populations to STEM education. Applications that do not adhere to this topic will not be considered.<\/li>\n<li>Applications should include a detailed budget breakdown of the proposal, not to exceed $10k USD. Requests exceeding $10k USD will not be considered.<\/li>\n<li>Proposals can include requests for Lenovo product, monetary support, or a mix of both.<\/li>\n<li>Please include specifics like quantity, model name\/number and needed functionality when requesting product.<\/li>\n<li>Lenovo will not consider requests for competitor products.<\/li>\n<li>Applications from new and existing charitable partners of Lenovo and its subsidiaries will be considered.<\/li>\n<li>If selected, applicants must meet all compliance and due diligence requirements of Lenovo and Lenovo Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>Applications and applications instructions are available in English and must be completed in English. Applications not completed in English will not be considered.<\/li>\n<li>Applications must be submitted by November 30, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>All applicants must adhere to Lenovo\u2019s Charitable Giving Guidelines, available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenovofoundation.com\/\">www.LenovoFoundation.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Timeline of recipient selection and announcement is subject to change at the discretion of the Lenovo Foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of $150k USD will be given to organizations who propose new and innovative ideas for engaging minority, under resourced and diverse populations in STEM education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[645,312,6447],"class_list":["post-33589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-csr","tag-lenovo","tag-love-on-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}