45.

45.

We received 45 applications! We rejoiced knowing our applicant pool was grand and diverse yet mourned the future process of notifying so many deserving organizations that they weren't selected for our award. It was going to be a long road ahead, but we were ready.

The process towards identifying our grant recipients started rather slowly. While everyone had filled out a Google Form giving us a numeric breakdown of the applicants, we still couldn't agree entirely on how to start the elimination process. After 45 minutes of constant debate, we decided on a method for our madness. We worked through our applicants, in order of highest to lowest with our scores, and started to compare them to our mission statement. If they had 0% of our class voting to keep them, they were highlighted red - 1-49% were highlighted yellow, and +50% were highlighted green. Through this, we found our top 16 organizations.

Upon narrowing it down, our Site Visits group took the information and set up our visits. In the next post, you'll get a backstage pass to some of our visits!