The funding for the 2024 Congregational Development Grants has been fully funded for the 2024 year. We will reopen the grant application in 2025. If you have any questions, please contact Matt Koski at mkoski@ecww.org
The overall purpose of the congregational grants program is to assist congregations in the Diocese as they develop, with God’s help, into healthier, more faithful, and more effective communities of faith. We are interested, therefore, in making grants to congregations that have a vision for their own development and want our assistance in making progress toward that vision. Special priority will be given to requests that are able to articulate the developmental benefits in concrete ways.
These grants cannot be used to cover budget shortfalls, basic operating costs, large capital projects, or a program solely for outreach to human need by the church.
Some examples of the kind of grants we would like to support are:
- Grants that develop engagement with a specifically identified group of people (i.e. young adults, newly retired people, families with children, newcomers to your city/town),
- Grants that seek to build the capacity of a congregation to attract and form children in Christian faith via the initiation of Godly Play or some other program of children’s formation,
- Grants that help build up and empower lay leadership,
- Grants that help congregations build capacity around difference through cultural competency training and conversation,
- Grants that support the development of a third liturgy that will attract new people and/or a different population to a congregation,
- Development of pilot programs of any size that would be of benefit to the broader Church.
