Proposal Submission Letter

Sample Cover Letter The practical(prenominal) connection Group, Inc. 17 leafy vegetable Road Rural Town, NH July 1, 1995 Jane Smith, executive Director Xavier Foundation 555 S. Smith St. Washington, D. C. 22222 dependable Ms. Smith, I am pleased to submit this proposal from the Virtual Community Group, Inc. , requesting an investment of $50,000 per year over two years from the Xavier Foundation to protrude our Enterprise 2000 initiative.This grant would provide part of the funds needed for us to train at least 1200 low-income entrepreneurs in rural vernal Hampshire, part them acquire the figurer skills they need to create sustainable local businesses as we enter the twenty- initiative century. As elsewhere in the U. S. , the economic health of New Hampshires rural communities has suffered steady decline since the early 1900s. Family furthermostms, which once make an economic base supporting large numbers of rural inhabitants, throw off been all but eradicated by large-scal e agribusiness.Moreover, since 1960, New Hampshire has lost xx% of its manufacturing jobs, as corporations or local factories have shut down or moved operations out of state. As a result, many thousands of individuals from New Hampshire &8212 particularly our young people &8212 argon moving to cities to seek jobs, non only depopulating and further impoverishing rural communities, but contributing to the growing pussy of urban unemployed.By tapping the energy of the small local entrepreneur, and linking it to the explosion in communications technologies, we believe it is possible to reverse this trend, enabling rural inhabitants to retain viable, high-quality jobs far from industrial and urban centers. Small towns would again offer a across-the-board spectrum of employment opportunities &8212 from small manufacturing to services to retail &8212 and develop sound, diversified economies for the first time in generations. Unfortunately, many small entrepreneurs cannot afford either t he cultivation or equipment needed to participate in the rewards of the Information Revolution.Enterprise 2000 was designed explicitly to address this lack of parity, and help level the communications playing field. on the job(p) in collaboration with microenterprise organizations, residential district colleges, and agencies which recycle data processor hardware, Enterprise 2000 bequeath offer disadvantaged entrepreneurs the following services at low or no charge Day-time or evening classes in basic, intermediate, and advanced computer skills Training to use the Internet and other information networks Assessment of MIS needsAccess to reconditioned computer hardware After two years of experimentation and program development, the Virtual Community Group has fashioned a superb, easily replicable model in Enterprise 2000, and established a high degree of credibility among community groups, policy makers, and funders. Our collaboration with other agencies leverages every dollar inve sted.Given that the Xavier Foundation has already made a number of strategic investments to improve the lives of the rural poor, we are calling on you to help us advance our joint mark one step further. I appreciate your consideration of this proposal. Please looking at free to call me if you have questions or would like us to coiffure a site visit. I look forward to meeting with you soon. Sincerely, Executive Director (This sample cover letter was created for AGM by Molly Clark Associates. )