Prompt / Question (1500 character max for all text boxes) | Total Points Available | 1: No Response | 2: Weak | 3: Acceptable, but not strong | 4: Strong, but could improve | 5: Nailed it! | SCORE |
What is your long-term strategy to address the root causes of injustice in the San Antonio metro area? You may either upload a document that outlines your strategy or use the text box. | 20 | No response | Strategy lacks clarity or long-term impact. Solely focused on providing services to address human needs. | Strategy provides information about goals and plans. Primary focus on providing services to address human needs, but also includes limited efforts to address the systems and structures that create human needs. | Strategy is clear and coherent. The strategy describes long-term efforts to impact systems and structures, such as building power, community organizing, advocacy training, etc. | Strategy is compelling and visionary. It clearly articulates a long-term plan for changing systems and structures through a variety of tactics and approaches. | |
Provide a link or upload an event flyer for at least 2 different initiatives or programs from the last 2 years that demonstrate how you have focused your efforts on the root causes of injustice in the San Antonio metro area. | 20 | No response | Limited or no planning and mobilization of resources to impact systems and structures, such as building power, community organizing, advocacy training, etc. | At least one example demonstrates some planning and mobilization of resources to impact systems and structures, such as building power, community organizing, advocacy training, etc. | One example demonstrates significant planning and mobilization of resources to impact systems and structures, such as building power, community organizing, advocacy training, etc. | Both examples demonstrate significant planning and mobilization of resources to impact systems and structures, such as building power, community organizing, advocacy training, etc. | |
Provide a link or upload a document that summarizes your impact in previous year(s). Multimedia examples or evidence (for example, a video) is welcome! | 20 | No response | Limited or no evidence of impact. | Response is focused primarily on numbers (services provided, beneficiaries, etc.). | Response includes both numbers and depth of impact (quality of services, testimonies from participants). | Response includes numbers, depth, and clear connection to the organization’s or coalition’s strategy. | |
Check off boxes for the different types of justice (racial justice, environmental justice, gender and sexuality justice, reproductive justice, immigration justice, Middle East justice, or other) your organization or coalition addresses through its programming. How does your programming address intersections between two or more of these types of justice? | 10 | No response | Limited or no intersections. | Response recognizes that there are intersections but lacks clarity about how programming will impact more than one type of justice at a time. | Response reflects a solid understanding and commitment to advancing justice through an intersectional approach. | Response demonstrates a deep understanding and commitment to advancing justice through an intersectional approach. | |
How does your organization or coalition collaborate with other organizations advancing justice in the San Antonio metro area? For organizations, list collaborative efforts you have contributed significant time or resources toward in the last 2 years For coalitions, list organizations that have contributed significant time or resources toward the coalition in the last 2 years
| 10 | No response | Organizations: 0 collaborative efforts Coalitions: 1 organization | Organizations: 1 collaborative effort Coalitions: 2 organizations | Organizations: 2 collaborative efforts Coalitions: 3-4 organizations | Organizations: 3 or more collaborative efforts Coalitions: 5 or more organizations | |
Determined by CREF trustees: organization or coalition focuses on topics with limited or reduced funding due to political decisions at a local, state, or federal level | 10 | | No reduction of funding due to political decisions at a local, state, or federal level | Limited reduction of funding due to political decisions at a local, state, or federal level | Significant reduction of funding due to political decisions at a local, state, or federal level | No funding available due to political decisions at a local, state, or federal level | |
Provide a link to a page on your website or upload a document to demonstrate your organization’s or coalition’s commitment to advancing equity and inclusion. For example: we provide cash assistance to low-income BIPOC femmes to stabilize households and support planning for the future. | 10 | No response | Limited or no evidence of commitment to advance equity and inclusion. | Equity and inclusion are referenced but do not appear central to the organization’s or coalition’s approach to its work. | Clear commitment to equity and inclusion through programming descriptions and/or the organization’s or coalition’s self-description. | Compelling and inspirational language to demonstrate commitment to equity and inclusion through programming descriptions and/or the organization’s or coalition’s self-description. | |
