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Countryside USA-Countryside Farms, Inc. CHARITABLE FUNDING AND DONATION APPLICATION PROCESSING Countryside® Farms, is not a non-profit organization, but engages in numerous acts of charity. Countryside® donates profits, after taxes from the sale of Countryside® merchandise to charitable and educational organizations. Our company has provided funds for education, human services and community projects. Countryside® has a long tradition of charitable contributions and community development. Beyond those investments, Countryside® employees and retirees contribute their personal time and resources to make communities better places to live and work. Inquires about funding and your program eligibility should be in letter form signed by your organization’s President, or authorized legal representative, and have the approval of your Board of Directors. Your letter should include a concise description of the specific program for which the funds are requested. Additional information must include a budget for the program and for the organization, the latest financial statement and your annual report along with a copy of the organization Federal and State income tax return. Include a copy of the IRS ruling letter evidencing tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, a mandatory requirement for program eligibility. Countryside® considers grants once per year at an Annual Meeting held in late December. Requests may be submitted at any time during the calendar year and will be acted upon as expeditiously as possible. Countryside® does not make individual personal grants or accept proposals for corporate event sponsorship, advertising, endowments, capital campaigns or renovation. Those requests are declined. Fax and email proposals are not accepted and all application materials submitted will not be returned. At Countryside® Farms, we give a high priority to programs that address children's education and youth services. Countryside® also supports health and human service organizations with special consideration given to agencies that provide services to women in shelters, orphans and to the homeless. Countryside® is unable to consider every request, however if your organization meets our eligibility criteria and you feel that your program matches one of our areas of interest, we invite you to submit a written request. Applications for funding should have a check or money-order enclosed with a "$250 refundable application fee". That application fee is refundable and is designed to discourage the large number of unqualified or unprofessional funding requests that our company receives each year. Applications received after 15 September may be carried forward to 15 January of the following year.
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