Project Selection Process

One of the most important services that Channel G provides to its viewers is the identification, research, and presentation of great nonprofit projects. In order to establish and maintain viewer trust and loyalty, Channel G goes to great lengths to vet the projects that appear on the show.

Channel G seeks to present projects for which there is a proven track record indicating a high probability of success for the project. If Channel G’s projects succeed, then Channel G succeeds, providing a dynamic incentive to efficiently use all the information available from various sources to effectively vet the projects presented.

Project Qualifications

• The project can be described as social, environmental, or health-related.
• The project has significant impact on the problem it is designed to address.
• The project’s overall impact is determined to be positive by Channel G and has more unifying than polarizing effects.
• The project is carried out by or is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3).
• The project organization understands that the Channel G focus is, wherever possible, on project level funding, as opposed to organization level funding.
• The project and its parent organization are sustainable and have a history of achievement.
• The project will be interesting as well as worthwhile to the Channel G viewer.
• Channel G gives priority to projects that can be expanded or duplicated.
• Channel G prefers to showcase projects with a long-term strategy beyond the current phase, including multi-stage projects.

We encourage project organizations to use the following budgetary parameters in the allocation of funds raised by Channel G:

• 70% - Cost of the project
• 20% - Overhead
• 10% - Administration

The Project Removal Process

Total Goal Is Reached

Fundraising stops once the Total Goal Amount is raised for a project.

Total Goal Is Not Reached

The decision to begin the project removal process is a decision made exclusively by Channel G after contact with the project and after both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the project's progress have shown that its performance is insufficient to satisfy the total goal. Channel G reserves the right to stop its fundraising efforts if it becomes apparent that there is not enough public interest and support for a project to reach its Total Goal Amount. When the project removal process is complete, the total amount raised is disbursed according to Channel G’s fundraising policy.