Gift of Freedom

Winner’s Contract

The Application Form is available for downloading here.

1. The application process for the Gift of Freedom Award will include essays on the applicant's artistic life, an example of the applicant's artistic expression, and questions involving educational and employment history, as well as community service. A full disclosure of financial assets will be required. The awarding panel will be composed of members of AROHO's Board of Directors, AROHO's Advisory Council, and volunteers with particular expertise in the arts. The application is available for dowloading from our web site.
2. Each award will be customized to meet the needs and requirements of the recipient. However, the maximum period for receipt of a grant from AROHO will be two years. There will be a formal periodic review of a recipients progress and individual mentoring by board members, members of the Advisory Council and past recipients.
3. AROHO will require ongoing reports, including written quarterly reports, on the use of the funds and progress made by the grantee toward achieving the purposes for which the grant was made. Upon completion of the undertaking for which the grant was made, a final report is required describing the grantee's accomplishments with respect to the grant and accounting for the funds received under such grant.
4. Where the reports submitted to AROHO or other information (including the failure to submit such reports) indicates that all or any part of a grant is not being used in furtherance of the purposes of such grant, AROHO will investigate the grantee's situation. While conducting its investigation, AROHO will withhold further payments to the extent possible until any delinquent required reports have been submitted.
5. In cases in which AROHO determines that any part of a grant has been used for improper purposes and the grantee has previously diverted grant funds to any use not in furtherance of a purpose specified in the grant, AROHO will: (1) take all reasonable and appropriate steps either to recover the grant funds or to insure the restoration of the diverted funds and the dedication of other grant funds held by the grantee to the purposes being financed by the grant, and (2) withhold any further payments to the grantee after AROHO becomes aware that a diversion may have taken place, until it has received the grantee's assurances that future diversions will not occur, and required the grantee to take extraordinary precaution to prevent future diversions from occurring.
6. AROHO will retain records pertaining to all grants to individuals. Such records will include: (1) all information the foundation secures to evaluate the qualifications of potential grantees; (2) identification of grantees (including any relationship of any grantee to the foundation sufficient to make such grantee a disqualified person of the private foundation within the meaning of Section 4946(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (hereinafter the "Code"); (3) specifications of the amount and purpose of each grant; and (4) the follow-up information which AROHO obtains in complying the preceding paragraph.