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Project Grant Applications
Please view the 2010 Program Guidelines for detailed instructions for how to apply to PMP.
Letter of Intent (Required for all applicants)
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Due in PMP office by Monday, November 2, 2009
Project Status Report (current grantees only)
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Due in PMP office by Monday, November 2, 2009
Application Form
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Due in PMP office with the PA Cultural Data Project funder report by Friday, January 15, 2010. See our 2010 Program Guidelines for more informatin about the CDP report.
Additional Project Event Information Form (A10)
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Additional Work Sample Information Form (A16)
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PMP encourages prospective applicants to contact the program well in advance of the Letter of Intent deadline to discuss potential projects and eligibility. We can be reached at 267-350-4960. See the Staff section of this website for more information about who we are and how to reach us via email.
How to use these forms:
Requirements: Adobe Reader 8.0 or higher. Adobe Reader is available for download free of cost directly from here.
To use the interactive PDF forms, save them to your hard drive first, then fill in the required fields using Adobe Reader. The forms can be saved and edited later (please note that you must be using Adobe Reader 8 or higher in order to save your work).
Frequently Asked Questions
Any special instructions for Mac users?
The form won’t work in Preview, the default setting for PDFs on many Macs. Please download the free Adobe Reader software and use it to complete your application.
Once you’ve downloaded Adobe Reader, be sure to set it as the default application to open PDFs—otherwise your computer will try (and fail) to open the application in Preview. When you open Adobe Reader for the first time, it will give you the option to make it the default program for opening all PDF files.
Can I save my work?
If you use Adobe Reader 8.0 or download the free Adobe Reader 9.0 software linked above, yes, you can save and edit your work later. If you are using an earlier version of Adobe Reader, you will not be able to save the forms with inserted data intact.
The same applies to Adobe Professional users: if you have a pre-8.0 version of Adobe Pro, you won’t be able to save your work.
If I paste text into the form, will my formatting remain intact?
Bullet-point lists will transfer. Bold-faced type, italics, and underlining won’t. Please use quotation marks or all caps to indicate titles of works.
When I’m filling in the Project Narrative section of the application, will my text flow automatically from one page to the next?
Unfortunately, no. If you’re copying and pasting text from a word-processing document, you’ll need to paste text into each page of the application form. Please check the bottom of each page carefully to be sure that your text is not cut off.
The first three lines of the Budget Summary section on A2 (Total Project Income, Total Project Expenses, and Amount Requested from PMP) say $0. When I try to type into these fields, nothing happens. Why?
In order to minimize errors, we set these fields to fill in automatically when you have completed pages A11-A13. Until you fill in budget details on these pages, the fields on A2 will read $0. The same is true for the subtotal and total fields on pages A11-13—these will total automatically, but cannot be edited by hand.