* Renewal Grants for Clergy

* Compassion Capital Fund

* On-Line Directory of Foundations

 
Renewal Grants for Clergy
Louisville Institute: Sabbatical Grants for Pastoral Leaders Program
The Sabbatical Grants for Pastoral Leaders Program, administered by the Louisville Institute, awards grants to pastors and other religious leaders in the U.S. and Canada seeking time for study, reflection, retreat, and rest for the renewal of their vocations. The program will award up to sixty grants for eight-week ($10,000) and twelve-week ($15,000) sabbaticals. Recipients must be released from all pastoral duties during the entire grant period. The program is open to Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy, church staff members, denominational and diocesan staff, and others employed full-time in recognized positions of pastoral leadership, ordained and lay. The application deadline is September 15, 2006. Visit the web site listed below for more information.

http://www.louisville-institute.org/secondary/SGPLdetail.asp

Compassion Capital Fund

The CCF Targeted Capacity-Building Program funds faith-based and community organizations with one- time awards to increase their capacity to serve targeted social service priority areas.

The program funds faith-based and community organizations directly with one time $50,000 awards for one year to build their capacity to deliver services to at-risk youth, the homeless, or those living in rural communities, or to provide marriage education.

To be eligible an organization must serve individuals in a "distressed community." A distressed community is defined as a neighborhood or geographic community with and unemployment rate and/or poverty rate equal to or greater that the state or national rate.

Critical areas to address are Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Program/Services (not direct services but rather ideas that strengthen programs), Funding, Community Engagement. You do not need to address all these areas --- just one.

Some examples are ----- Board composition and function, staff professional and career development, volunteer training and development, succession planning; board governance, systems management, human resources, information technology, policies and procedures, fiscal controls, non-profit incorporation; program design that expands or enhances program delivery, program monitoring, evaluating program outcomes; diversified funding sources, financial sustainability, donor development; community asset mapping, level of community participation, community needs assessment, leveraging resources, collaborative relationships, web site development.

Go to the below link for the full program announcement...Deadline is JUNE 23rd. Approximately 300 grants will be awarded for $50,000 each.