2024-063 - Accepeting Grant Funds From the Irvine Foundation

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Grantee shall not use any portion of the grant to participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any specific candidate for public office, to induce or encourage violations of law or public policy, to cause any private inurement or improper private benefit to occur, or to take any other action inconsistent with Code Section 501(c)(3). Grantee shall not use any portion of the grant funds to support any form of violent political activity, terrorists, or terrorist organizations. Grantee shall not use any portion of the grant for reportable or disclosable activities under applicable state or local campaign finance disclosure or election laws, such as ballot measure contributions. The grant shall not be used in any attempt to influence legislation within the meaning of Section 4945(e) of the Code, and neitherthe Foundation nor the Grantee has entered into any agreement, oral orwritten, to that effect. This prohibition shall not prevent Grantee from using grant funds for communications that do not qualify as lobbying under federal tax law, such as communications with legislators that do not refer to any specific legislation or that refer to legislation without reflecting any view on it; Grantee may also use grant funds for communications that qualify for any exception to the definition of lobbying under federal tax law, such as nonpartisan analysis, study, or research, or certain responses to requests from a legislative or government agency for comments on legislation. V. NO PLEDGE Neither this Agreement nor any other statement, oral or written, nor the making of any contribution or grant to Grantee shall be interpreted to create any pledge or any commitment by the Foundation or by any related person or entity to make any other grant or contribution to Grantee or any other entity for this or any other project. The grant contemplated by this Agreement shall be a separate and independent transaction from any other transaction between the Foundation and Grantee or any other entity. VI. PUBLICATIONS; LICENSES Any information contained in publications, studies, or research funded by this grant shall be made available to the public in electronic form following such reasonable requirements or procedures as the Foundation may establish from time to time. Grantee grants to the Foundation an irrevocable, nonexclusive license to publish any publications, studies, or research funded by this grant at its sole discretion. VII. ANTI -DISCRIMINATION Grantee agrees that, in the performance of this Agreement, it will not unlawfully discriminate in its employment practices, volunteer opportunities, or the delivery of programs or services, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, handicap, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vill. USE OF SUBGRANTEES OR CONTRACTORS With regard to the selection of any subgrantee necessary to carry out the purposes of the grant, Grantee retains full discretion and control over the selection process, acting completely independently of the Foundation. There is no agreement, written or oral, by which the Foundation may cause Grantee to choose any particular subgrantee orcontractor. Specifically, the Foundation is not earmarking Grant funds for any particular consultant or third party selected by Grantee and named in Grantee's grant proposal, and the final selection of such consultants or third party service providers is within the discretion of The James Irvine Foundation — Project Support Grant Agreement — Grant Number: 24-21619 Page 4 of 10 Resolution No.2024-063 Page 10of16