Application Guidelines Updated Grantmaking Policy and Interests As a relatively small family foundation now in its fourth generation, we support charities, especially in communities where trustees live, or in fields where we have specialized knowledge or interests. Though our grants are generally modest in size, we try to make strategically significant investments in people, ideas, projects and institutions that promise demonstrable, substantial, long-range public benefits, with high cost-effectiveness and leverage. We do not accept uninvited proposals, but we welcome 1- or 2-page concept papers introducing your organization and project, its purposes, means of accomplishment, probable costs and results. Charities interested in working with the foundation may email a project description to elpf@mac.com. In general, our philanthropic interests include informal education, the environment, human services, visual arts, music and the promotion of philanthropy. We do not fund capital campaigns, and we prefer projects over general operating requests.