Criteria listed below are designed to protect all parties in interest: donors, BOD, employees, benefactors and the public interest as well. They consist of a set of requirements that balance each party’s risks and advantages.

Eligibility criteria:

(I) Be a business in good standing (Businesses not in good standing or projects are ineligible)

(II) Providing behavioral care in any of the following capacities:

1. Psychiatric hospitals

2. Residential treatment centers

3. Detoxification treatment centers

4. Partial hospitalization programs

5. Intensive outpatients programs

6. Outpatients programs

7. Sober houses.

(III) Be actively and continuously in business in the United States of America for no less than 6 months (Only US businesses are eligible. Businesses that are not going concerns, that are in bankruptcy or liquidation, or that are winding up their operations or projects are not eligible)

(IV) In some instances, having implemented an efficacy survey system that can be monitored / audited by a third independent party

(V) Complete the application

(VI) Timely provide BHCEF with the application and its appendices (as specified in the application)

(VII) If applicable, provide the third party auditor information

(VIII) If no third independent party is conducting the surveys, grants can be allocated to recipients who provide efficacy survey results attached to their application

(IX) Agreeing without reserve with the terms contained in the application and funding agreement

(X) Execute the application under penalty of perjury

(XI) Application to be signed by a director/manager on behalf of the organization