Parish Based Ministry Grants
PURPOSE
Parish Based Ministry grants assist parishes with funding in the following two areas:
- Ministry of the Word (Religious Education, R.C.I.A, Evangelization).
- Social Service (Advocacy for the poor, health care, housing) in parishes or parish clusters.
GUIDELINES FOR FUNDING:
- Applicants may request to provide full or partial program expenses and direct assistance. Every applicant must adequately indicate the need for financial assistance.
- Applications must come from the parish and the use of grant monies must be monitored by the parish applicant (if working with a collaborative body, the applicant should require a use of funds report).
- Request must give evidence that consultative/decision-making bodies (Parish Pastoral Council, Parish Planning Committee, and Finance Committee) have been consulted regarding the decision to seek financial assistance.
- Application form must be used for your request and completed in full.
- Application form must be submitted before the stated deadline.
- Applicants must submit a report from a previous gift to be eligible to apply again.
PRIORITY FOR FUNDING:
- Recognizing the diversity within our Diocese, the Committee will consider proportionate funding for rural, central city, west side, metropolitan St. Joseph and Kansas City.
- The total amount of plan funding is dependent upon available monies allocated in the fiscal year.
- The Committee will recommend to the Bishop allocation of monies using the following: available monies to fund first-year cluster ministries; available monies to fund ongoing ministries. (The Committee reserves the right to defer funds from one category to the other should applications be inadequate.)
- Consideration of sustainability and collaboration is important to address in the application. Collaboration is a funding priority. We encourage deaneries to work together. It is also important to be working toward the sustainability of the project.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Applications should be submitted in the spring.
- All grantees that received a grant last year must have submitted year-end progress reports by May 15 to be eligible to apply for a new grant.
- Deadline for application – May 23 (EOD).
Please mail to:
Parish Based Ministries
Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
Attn: Grant McGinn
20 W. 9th Street, Ste 200
Kansas City, MO 64105
OR
Submit by Email to: accounting@diocesekcsj.org
- Committee members may contact various applicants to get further detail or ask questions.
- Committee reviews each application and begins the allocation process.
- Letters will be mailed announcing allocations and denial of allocations on June 10.
EVALUATION/ACCOUNTABILITY
- All grant recipients will be required to submit a year-end report by May 15.
GRANT APPLICATION REQUESTS
- Grant applications can be requested by email. Send requests to accounting@diocesekcsj.org