JUNE 2017 IN THIS ISSUE: Synod assembly recap Welcoming Phil Resource of the month: ELCA blogs Hens for Hunger From Mikka’s desk: Buen viaje and muchas gracias Monthly network webinar By the numbers: Make your gift count — double! FROM JOSSELYN’S DESK: DOMESTIC HUNGER GRANTS Dear ELCA World Hunger Leaders and Friends, Remember, the ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants application process closes on July 7! Toward our pursuit of a just world where all are fed, ELCA World Hunger supports work and ministry in four categories: 1. RELIEF provides immediate access to food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies and care, and the means to deliver and sustain these activities (transport, storage, supplies, etc.) so that basic needs can be met. 2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT leads to increased access to food and sustainable livelihoods through means such as sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, adequate housing, jobs, primary health care and disease prevention, job training, child care, elder care, nutrition education, literacy training, sanitation, safe-water supplies, below-market loans, and just land use and distribution. 3. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING brings people with common values, complementary interests and shared concerns together to build and maintain an environment that empowers all people to obtain justice, affirm their dignity, and gain access to the goods of the earth. 4. ADVOCACY works to overcome the effects and root causes of hunger and poverty through administrative, legislative and judicial actions in the public sphere, as well as corporate actions in the private sphere. As you advise and work with your congregations and partners, please remember to read all the directions. Review the posted sample application before beginning the process. Make sure the grant focus is on addressing root causes of food insecurity and poverty. Finally, we are now working with a two-year cycle. The funding is approved for two consecutive years based on the initial application, the completion of an organization information update and the evaluation form, which is completed near the end of the first year. Grant awards may differ in year two. If an applicant participated in the last cycle, 2016-17, they are ineligible to apply for this cycle, 2018-19. If you have any questions, please contact Johnnie Thompson ([email protected]) or Joe Young ([email protected]). We look forward to receiving applications, and give thanks for our continued shared ministry together! Josselyn Bennett Director, Poverty and Justice Ministries, ELCA Domestic Mission
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JUNE 2017
IN THIS ISSUE:
Synod assembly
recap
Welcoming Phil
Resource of the
month: ELCA
blogs
Hens for Hunger
From Mikka’s
desk: Buen
viaje and
muchas
gracias
Monthly
network
webinar
By the numbers:
Make your gift
count —
double!
FROM JOSSELYN’S DESK: DOMESTIC HUNGER GRANTS
Dear ELCA World Hunger Leaders and Friends,
Remember, the ELCA World Hunger Domestic Hunger Grants application process
closes on July 7! Toward our pursuit of a just world where all are fed, ELCA World
Hunger supports work and ministry in four categories:
1. RELIEF provides immediate access to food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies
and care, and the means to deliver and sustain these activities (transport,
storage, supplies, etc.) so that basic needs can be met.
2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT leads to increased access to food and sustainable livelihoods through
means such as sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, adequate housing, jobs,
primary health care and disease prevention, job training, child care, elder care, nutrition education,
literacy training, sanitation, safe-water supplies, below-market loans, and just land use and
distribution.
3. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING brings people with common values, complementary interests and shared
concerns together to build and maintain an environment that empowers all people to
obtain justice, affirm their dignity, and gain access to the goods of the earth.
4. ADVOCACY works to overcome the effects and root causes of hunger and poverty through
administrative, legislative and judicial actions in the public sphere, as well as corporate actions in the
private sphere.
As you advise and work with your congregations and partners, please remember to read all the
directions. Review the posted sample application before beginning the process. Make sure the grant
focus is on addressing root causes of food insecurity and poverty.
Finally, we are now working with a two-year cycle. The funding is approved for two consecutive years
based on the initial application, the completion of an organization information update and the
evaluation form, which is completed near the end of the first year. Grant awards may differ in year two. If
an applicant participated in the last cycle, 2016-17, they are ineligible to apply for this cycle, 2018-19.
If you have any questions, please contact Johnnie Thompson ([email protected]) or Joe Young
([email protected]). We look forward to receiving applications, and give thanks for our continued
shared ministry together!
Josselyn Bennett
Director, Poverty and Justice Ministries, ELCA Domestic Mission
