The Agency reserves the right to accept or deny any or all applications if the Agency determines it is in the best interest of the Agency to do so. The Agency shall notify the applicant if it rejects that applicant’s proposal. The Agency may suspend or terminate an outstanding RFA pursuant to its own grantmaking rules or any applicable federal regulation or requirement. If there are any conflicts between the terms and conditions of the RFA and any applicable federal or local law or regulation, or any ambiguity related thereto, then the provisions of the applicable law or regulation shall control, and it shall be the responsibility of the applicant to ensure compliance.
A. Application Vetting and Paneling
Submitted applications are vetted for completeness by CAH staff, who contact applicants regarding incomplete documents within ten (10) business days of the application deadline. Applicants must reply within five (5) business days of CAH’s notification or risk disqualification from the paneling process.
All complete and vetted grant requests are organized into cohorts according to the discipline specified by the arts and humanities practitioner in the application, then distributed to a board of advisory review panelists. CAH solicits individuals from the DC community who are arts, humanities and/or business professionals unaffiliated with CAH to serve as advisory review panelists for each grant program. The role of a panelist is to review and score an eligible application’s content against the established grant program review criteria. Aggregate scores and panelists’ comments are used by CAH to make funding recommendations to the Commission.
CAH advises panelists to remain impartial in their review of CAH grant applications, and it ensures that its panelists recuse themselves from review of any application that presents, or appears to present, a personal or professional conflict of interest. CAH’s grant application evaluation process takes into consideration general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public consistent with The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act.
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