The Outreach Commissions of the diocese invite you to apply for grant money to support your community partnership ministries with funds from the Earth Care Commission, Our Kids Commission, Reconciliation Commission, and Sustainability Development Goals funds. Each Commission seeks to help “repair the world” through relationships with community organizations as we seek and serve Christ in all people. Read below for more information, and please note that deadlines vary from October to December.
Interested in learning more? You are invited on Wednesday, October 11th at 7 p.m. by Zoom the Outreach Commissions will join the Wardens & Treasurers Monthly Meeting. Please check the weekly The Call e-newsletter for clergy and lay leaders for the monthly Wardens & Treasurers Zoom Meeting notice.
Commission for Earth Care
This Commission coordinates and leads efforts to care for the Earth, encountering and honoring the face of God in all creation as we follow Jesus in relationship with God, each other, and the whole Earth. The Earth Care Commission was formed to pursue this individually, spiritually, collectively, and systemically. This Commission has supported and financed the “Solar Saints” LED parish light bulb exchange, a grant to fund the documentary “Swimming Up Stream: Indigenous Environmental Justice for our Waterways”, a community garden at Grace Church in East Concord, and some supplies needed to conduct an environmental education program for children. The Earth Care Commission welcomes grant requests up to $1000 for environmental education programs, advocacy efforts for low-income communities being especially impacted by climate change, and opportunities for people of all ages to spiritually renew their relationship with God and the earth.
Grants Available: Up to $1,000 per project
Deadline: No later than December 1st .
Click here for more information and the grant application.
Commission on “Our Kids”
Our mission is to use the vast resources of the church to help bridge the opportunity gap facing youth in New Hampshire. The bishop’s charge to the Commission is: “To find and serve the Child Jesus in our communities by helping congregations move away from asking how can we get more young people from our community in the doors of our church to asking, how can we go out the doors of our church to serve the needs of young people in our communities?” Recent collaborations include field trip support for north country day campers; scholarships for Pine Street Players youth summer camp; Oasis Teen Drop-In Center and an afterschool choir school program with local youth.
Grants Available: Up to $10,000
Deadline: November 10th
Click here for more information and the grant application.
Commission on Reconciliation
The Commission on Reconciliation is guided by the vision of Becoming Beloved Community, our church’s long-term commitment to racial justice, healing, and reconciliation. The Reconciliation Commission upholds the following diocesan priorities to speak to and witness in the public sphere: Immigration and Refugees; Indigenous People Rights and Reconciliation; Mass Incarceration; Racial Reconciliation; as well as Economic Inequity.
Deadline: November 10th
Click here for more information and the grant application.
Sustainability Development Goals (SDG)- With Global impact in mind, the Diocesan Commission of Reconciliation supports the SDGs and has budgeted an annual grant of $10,000 which, is awarded to one or more not-for-profit organizations deemed by our SDG Committee to alleviate poverty and foster sustainable growth. For example, in past years Diocesan SDG awards have gone to a library in Sou. Africa, a Parish Health Clinic in Honduras, The Women’s Trust in Ghana, Native American Outreach in Maine, and an orphanage in Mexico.
Deadline: October 31, 2023
Click here for more information and the grant application.
For further questions or discussion, reach out to the Rev. Alanna Van Antwerpen, Officer for Community Engagement.