MPI - E Pluribus Unum Prizes

Online Application

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Dear Applicant: Please be prepared to complete your application in its entirety. This online process does not allow you to save your work. You will have the opportunity to review your application before you submit. Once you submit your application, changes may not be made.

Organizational Information

Organization Name: (or individual applicant name)	A value is required.
Initiative or Program Name: (if applicable)
Number of years the initiative has been in existence: (number only, no text)	A value is required.You must enter an integer.
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State:	Please select an item.
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Contact Person

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What is the issue/field of your initiative?

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	If "Other", please describe briefly:

Organization Type

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How did you hear about the E Pluribus Unum Prizes?

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Overview

Provide a summary of the initiative describing what it does, what it has achieved, how much it costs to run, and why it is exemplary.
Summary must be no longer than 500 words.

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Narrative

Narrative must address each of the Selection Criteria (Significance, Impact, and Influence), responding where appropriate to the questions under each criterion. The narrative should be a maximum of 850 words for each of the three Selection Criteria.

Selection Criteria: Significance, Impact, and Influence

SIGNIFICANCE: How significant is the issue, population group, program, or practice that your initiative addresses?

Questions to Consider:

What is the concern that your initiative seeks to address or the need it seeks to meet? What made you or your organization decide that this was an important enough issue to get involved in?
How is your initiative critical to strengthening relationships between native-born and foreign-born Americans, and/or helping immigrants and their children to succeed in the United States?
Given other efforts in your community, state, and/or field to address immigrant integration and success, what makes your contribution especially valuable? How does your initiative compare or fit with other work in the area of immigrant integration and its various subfields?

Maximum: 850 words.

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IMPACT: How effective has your initiative been in achieving significant immigrant integration outcomes?

Questions to Consider:

What did you set out to accomplish? To what degree did you accomplish it? How do you know?
What specific and measurable results can you provide to show individual, family, or broader community outcomes that resulted from your efforts?
To what extent has the initiative resulted in changes in the policies and practices of organizations or institutions in your community? In relationships among members of your community? In other factors that affect immigrant integration?

Maximum: 850 words.

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INFLUENCE: To what extent is the initiative likely to influence the efforts of others?

Questions to Consider:

Has your initiative influenced others in your own community or field or in other communities or fields? How?
What is your assessment of whether your initiative could be replicated? What would it take and what kinds of organizations or communities would be best suited to do so?
What core elements of your approach are particularly innovative and/or effective? Why would people want to adopt these rather than other approaches?
How long has your initiative been in operation? Do you foresee that your initiative will still be in operation two years from now? Five years from now? What do you think are the obstacles to sustaining your initiative and how do you plan to handle them?

Maximum: 850 words.

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Supporting Materials (optional)

Applicants have the option of submitting one (1) additional item that helps describe their work and its impact. Items that require extensive review time are strongly discouraged. If the item cannot be submitted electronically with the application, it should be clearly labeled with the applicant's name and a contact number and/or email address and mailed to The E Pluribus Unum Prizes, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute, 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036. All supporting items must be received by 5 pm EST on 12/10/09. Supporting materials will not be returned.

I will mail my supporting materials:
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References

Provide contact information for three (3) persons willing to serve as references. References should know the applicant's work well and cannot be employed by the applicant.

Reference 1

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Briefly describe the relationship of the reference to the applicant and how the reference is familiar with the applicant. Maximum: 75 words	A value is required.

Reference 2

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Reference 3

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