How to Apply
- Application Deadline: August 1. We recommend you apply well before the application deadline if at all possible.
- Application Review Process: Your online application will be acknowledged immediately and forwarded to your local Giving Fund Advisory
Committee for review. That Advisory Committee will make a funding recommendation that will be reviewed and approved by administrators of
the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund. Applications are generally reviewed on an ongoing basis throughout the year. In some cases an Advisory Committee
may not provide a funding recommendation until later in the fall after all opportunities to support their community have been considered.
- Grant Amount: Grants vary in scale in relationship to Weyerhaeuser’s presence in the community and the philanthropic budget available
for the year. The minimum grant awarded is $1,000.
- Grant Notification: The majority of our communications with you will be through e-mail. To ensure you receive our e-mails, add weyerhaeuser.com
to your list of contacts or check your junk-mail regularly. Use your e-mail program's function to mark the e-mail as "not junk" so our
e-mails are received in your inbox. We generally communicate our funding decision within 6 - 8 weeks AFTER we receive a recommendation
to fund your request from your local Advisory Committee. Grants are provided through direct deposit, and successful grant applicants will
be asked to provide banking information to accomplish this. The entire process from submitting your grant application to receiving a decision
may take several months. Many of our committees wait until after the August 1 deadline has passed to prioritize and finalize their
grant recommendations. This means you may not hear from us until late in the year. We regret we cannot fund all applications we receive
and the majority of our grant declines are sent very late in the year.
BEGIN A NEW APPLICATION
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Before you begin, please review our Grant Guidelines and Eligibility requirements.
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- Funding priorities vary in each Weyerhaeuser community. Before submitting a grant application we encourage you to contact the Weyerhaeuser
Giving Fund advisor at your local Weyerhaeuser facility to determine if the committee has an interest in considering
your proposal.
- FOR HEADQUARTERS-AREA GRANTS, PLEASE NOTE: Grants serving the company's Headquarters communities in the Seattle/Tacoma/Federal Way,
WA area will be considered by invitation only. We will proactively identify specific funding opportunities, and are therefore not accepting
unsolicited applications. This does not apply to organizations that align with the priorities of the Giving Fund Committee represented by
Quadrant Homes in Bellevue. You may apply if you align with the Quadrant committee's current Request for Proposal. Please feel free to
contact us if you would like more information.
- FOR NATIONAL GRANTS PLEASE NOTE: Grants for a national project directly related to the sustainability and importance of working
forests are considered by invitation only.
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Gather the following information essential to completing the application:
- The organization’s Tax ID or Canada Revenue Agency Number
- Contact Information
- Detailed information about the organization
- Detailed information about the request you are asking us to fund.
- Financial information related to the organization and the project you are asking us to fund.
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Use the appropriate link below to start a new grant application. Apply anytime but no later than August 1.
U.S. applicants:
- 501(c)(3) public charities – apply here
- 501(c)(3) local chapters that share same Tax ID with national parent organization – apply here
- Public schools and government/municipal agencies – apply
here
Canadian applicants:
- Charities registered with Canada Revenue Agency and provincial nonprofit societies – apply here
- Public schools and government/municipal agencies – apply
here
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Tips for saving and accessing your online application:
- The first time you access an online application, you will be prompted to create an application account using an email address and a password.
This account will contain copies of your in-progress or submitted grant application, which you can access at any time. Please make note
of your password. Although this is not required, we recommend you establish this application account using a general e-mail and password
available to multiple members of your organization. This will ensure your application is available to the organization even if there are
personnel changes. If your organization applies again in the future, this will be beneficial as several text fields will appear with the
same information previously provided, eliminating the need to re-type this information. It can also be edited as appropriate.
- Save your application early and often in the process.
- Please save the confirmation emails reminding you of the email and password you used to create your account, and the link it contains to
access your account (to return to your saved application or view your submitted application).
- A link to log into your grant application account is also provided above (see Access Your Saved Application). You may need to completely
close and re-open your web browser for this link to take you to your application account.
- If you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail immediately after you establish your account or submit your application, please check your junk
mail folder. To ensure you receive further communications from us, add weyerhaeuser.com to your list of contacts or use your e-mail program’s
function to mark the e-mail as “not junk” to ensure our e-mails are received in your inbox.
- If your organization has submitted an online application previously, we recommend you begin subsequent applications from that same application
account. This will ensure that certain text you provided from an earlier application will appear in the new application, eliminating the
need for you to retype it (for example, background text on your organization that may not have changed from your previous application).
You will be able to edit any information that appears from a previous application.
- When you are navigating through pages in the application, please do NOT use your browser’s Back button – you will lose unsaved information.
Please click the page numbers at the top of each screen to navigate through your application.
- You may wish to print a hard copy of the application for your records, or save it to your computer for future reference.
- Once your application has been submitted, you won't be able to make additional changes or include additional attachments.
Last updated January 4, 2013
