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

 

 

 

 

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