About the harold hay memorial fund

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The NewSchool Architectural Foundation’s Harold Hay Fund seeks to honor the vision and dedication of Harold Hay by sponsoring action-oriented research, practical lectures, and the construction of demonstration projects that advance the knowledge, understanding, and application of passive solar technologies in the built environment.

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Use / allocation of funds​

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Annual allocations are established by the NewSchool Foundation Board of Directors. ​There is no limit on the number of projects that may be awarded, but the total amount awarded will not exceed established allocations. ​Awards may be made for the purposes of lecturer fees, honoraria, student stipends, or fabrication costs for prototypes, demonstrations, or installed operating systems.

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Threshold Criteria

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Each proposal requires a NewSchool Faculty or staff sponsor. ​Per the terms of the Hay Fund bequest, projects should be student-focused, promote a fossil fuel-free future, and/or should address issues of social and environmental responsibility. Projects may also educate the public on historical and new energy-efficient design, and support students doing extraordinary research in these subject areas during their final year of research.

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qualitative criteria

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• Priority will be given to projects that meet one or more of the following criteria:

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• Projects that enhance cross-disciplinary understanding of the built environment.

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• Projects that can result in physical construction or prototypes

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• Projects that have a significant impact on the studio experience of the involved students.

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• Projects that make a contribution to the academic culture of the NewSchool.

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• Projects that embrace the tenets of social, environmental, and professional responsibility.

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• Projects that have practical applications.

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• Projects that have matching funds.

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performance criteria​

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• The completed project(s) must include a presentation of the findings/outcome, available free to the public.

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• The project should be completed within the calendar year, though exceptions may be made, at the discretion of the Board, for projects that require a different timeline.
   

Evaluation

 

• Project submittal will be evaluated by a Committee of the NewSchool Foundation.

 

• The Foundation reserves the right to further develop and refine select project proposals in collaboration with the proposers.

 

• After award decisions are made, funds are anticipated to be available for disbursement immediately thereafter.

 

• The Foundation reserves the right to make no awards.

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Submittal

 

• All proposals should include a concise statement of the problem or issue that is to be explored, and how this relates to the proposal criteria.

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• The means by which this is to be done.

 

• The names of any lecturers or technical professionals who would be remunerated or provided honoraria by the project.

 

• A conceptual budget for allocation of the Foundation funds and other resources that are a part of the project.

 

• The entire proposal should be no more than (4) pages, 11-point Arial with 1” margins.

 

• Proposals must be submitted to the Foundation Secretary, Lucy Campbell via email at lcampbell@newschoolarch.edu 

 

• Questions may be submitted in writing to Lucy Campbell at the email address above; she will distribute them to the review committee for their response.