Funding-Presbyterian
Mission Agency - Grants for projects within the United States; April 30, 2015
Description
The Presbyterian Mission Agency is
inviting Letters of Inquiry for projects that address the root and systemic
causes of hunger in the United States.
Grants
of up to $20,000 will be awarded for projects that fall within one or more of
the program's five focus areas, including direct food relief, development
assistance, public policy advocacy, lifestyle integrity, and education and
interpretation.
Proposals
do not need to fit neatly into one of these five areas, but may include activities
in multiple areas.
·
Direct Food Relief: The program must provide food relief to
impoverished people in either acute or chronic conditions of hunger with an eye
to long-range solutions. Grants may be made for start-up costs for new programs
and/or new projects of existing programs which attempt to deal with the root
causes of hunger in their community.
·
Development Assistance: The program must provide for a
multifaceted approach to development and the empowerment of impoverished people
in such areas as agricultural training, community organization, economic
development, nutrition education, public health and/or family planning. The
proposed activities may increase employment opportunities or provide assistance
to unemployed persons.
·
Public Policy Advocacy: The program must advocate, through
just and peaceful means, political, corporate, and/or economic policy changes
which provide food for impoverished and hungry people at home and abroad,
empower the participants’ self-development, or promote freedom from oppressive
and unjust systems that fail to meet basic needs.
·
Lifestyle Integrity: The program must assist the church
to move toward sustainable corporate and personal lifestyles sensitive to the
reality of the earth's limited resources and the critical needs of the human
family.
·
Education and Interpretation: The program must
educate the church and the public at large about the root causes of hunger and
inspire, equip, and connect people to act and to educate others. The proposed
activities should provide opportunities for learning among and with communities
of need.
Closing
Date:
Letter of Inquiry: April 30, 2015
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/hunger/grants-projects-within-united-states/
Contact
Information
Jennifer
Evans
(800)
728-7228, x5819