Due to our collaborative, project-driven grantmaking model, DSC does not accept unsolicited grant or investment proposals.

However, if your organization is working to address a social need that aligns with our intiatives, either as a nonprofit or a for profit, we would love to hear from you! In order to put your work on our radar and add your information to our database we invite you to fill out our “Discovery Form”

Do Something Cool invites organizations that meet our eligibility guidelines and investment selection criteria to become members of our pipeline. We pride ourselves on being collaborators and building partnerships with others in the field, so relationship building with organizations is an important part of what we do.

To that end, our pipeline is a community of social entrepreneurs who participate in convenings and conversations through which they become a part of the New Profit ecosystem, and are considered for investment as relevant cycles come up.

As each Grant Round or Impact Investment Round begins, we reach out proactively to all organizations in our pipeline whose work is a potential fit for that Round. Although each Round is structured slightly differently, they are all collaborative processes in which Partners conduct diligence on the organizations and select a Grantee.

Partners reach out to a number of organizations working in a given sector, inviting them to fill out a short Letter of Interest form. Of the respondents, 8-10 are then invited to submit longer applications. Partners discuss these applications and then select 4-6 organizations for interviews with the Executive Directors (via phone or in-person). Three are then chosen to give final presentations. Finalist grants of $10,000-$20,000 are awarded to at least one finalist, often more.