Please replace details within " " Dear Contact name, On behalf of Asha for Education - Stanford Chapter, I would like to thank you for submitting a proposal seeking funds for the project named "name of project". We regret to inform you that we are unable to support this project due to the following reasons. "The project is not aligned to Asha's mission/The funds requested are beyond the budget of the Stanford Chapter". Please be assured that we have given a thorough consideration for this project. We admire your motivation and the wonderful work you are undertaking and hope that the project will continue despite our current inability to support it. Please let us know if we can help in any other way. If you have not already done so, we would urge you to visit http://www.ashanet.org/stanford for more information about our chapter and our mission. Thank you for your interest in Asha and we wish you all the best with the project. Warm regards, Steward name Asha for Education - Stanford