Indiana-Kentucky Synod Grants for ELCA Congregations, SAWCs, and Campus Ministries Pivoting Toward the Future
These grants are made possible by gifts from:
St. Mark Lutheran Church, Butler, IN
and remaining Churchwide ELCA Covid funds
Doing new things: Grants to assist mission centers of the synod to make pivots necessary for healthy growth within faith communities that leads to outward action in the future.
Criteria:
- Available to any ELCA Congregation, Synod Authorized Worshipping Community, or Campus Ministry in Indiana or Kentucky. (This grant is available to congregations and campus ministries only, not other types of organizations or nonprofits.)
- These are not pass-through grants for funding other ministries or organizations.
- Preferential consideration will be shown toward programmatic ideas rather than capitol improvements.
- Grants should show programmatic ideas that pivot grant recipients toward healthy growth within faith communities that leads to outward action in the future.
- Grant applications should reflect opportunities for spiritual renewal, growth in discipleship, and/or deepening relationships within the faith community.
- Grants should reflect new initiatives that show risk, creativity, and discernment of God’s purpose.
- The application must include an itemized budget on the completed table included in the application.
- Maximum grant request: $1,000. But projects will be considered that exceed this amount.
- Matching amount 10%, meaning the grant recipient will show the additional 10% above and beyond the grant amount.
- Grant deadline: Monday, April 15, 2024
