Outreach

General Funding Guidelines

  • The Outreach Foundation” and “Outreach Commission” may only consider grant requests from one of the following:
    1. Organizations exempt within the provisions of section 501 (c) (3) or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
    2. Not-for-Profit organizations
    3. Projects sponsored by Christian organizations.

  • Funding may not be requested for:

    1. Capital campaigns
    2. Ongoing building projects
    3. Individuals
  • No grant may be made for the direct benefit of Christ Church Greenwich or to provide any portion of the parish budget.
  • Grants may be approved for projects that are also current or former beneficiaries of other Christ Church Greenwich Outreach efforts.
  • It is helpful, although not necessary, to have a Christ Church Greenwich member as a liaison to present an application to the Outreach Foundation or the Outreach Commission Board.
  • Funding may be requested for only one year per application.

  • A grant recipient will be required to give written accounting of the use of the grant funds within one year of its receipt of them and to return any unexpended funds to the Outreach Foundation or Outreach Commission.
    This information is used not only for record keeping, but most importantly, to share with ChristChurch members news about the way their generous giving is being used to reach out to others.

  • It is required that each grant-recipient-organization certify in writing that its policies reflected both the letter
    and the spirit of a non-denomination policy (see #5 on the application form).

On-going Grants

The Outreach Commission funds

on-going programs or projects.

Funding may be requested for on-going, established initiatives, organizations, programs, or projects.

  • There is a single submission deadline each year.  In 2008 the submission deadline is June 30, 2008.
  • Applicants will be advised whether the proposal is fundable.  Grants will be dispersed by February, 2009.
  • Funding is granted for one year per application.
  • It is possible to receive funding over an unspecified number of consecutive years from the Outreach Commission.

News

The Red Wagon is here!

On Sundays during the services, a red wagon will be stationed at the entry to the Chapel.  Parishioners are asked to bring items of food and place them in the red wagon.

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Grant Application

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GREETINGS FROM THE DMK:

Warm greetings from Arusha, Tanzania.

As Janet, the bishop’s secretary, Mwangalini, our driver, and I head out to Kerere this morning we are followed most of the way with a view of Mt. Meru and even Mt. Kilimanjaro.  Their purple majesty is evident through our rear window of the diocese car.  Sadly, Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice and snow cap is slowly disappearing. 

Our arrival at Endupoto is met with many hand shakes and even hugs by the Maasai warriors who, as their contribution, are digging the foundation for Classroom #3 at Endupoto Primary School.  Their labors have produced a foundation trench for the classroom and a foundation trench for the proposed fourth classroom.  Some arm twisting by the village chairman, the elders and the contractor resulted in a nod to at least build another foundation so we can hope and dream of an additional classroom next year.  With 167 boys and girls and 77 more waiting their turn for an education the need is there.

Over the weekend the “tree committee” planted the 20 Jacarandas not along the front of the school as proposed but down one side of the drive onto the campus.  It looks like another 20 Jacarandas will be needed to line the other side of the drive. The beauty of the purple blossoms carpeting the drive in October will contrast nicely with the front of the yellow school.

As we watch the digging of the trench by over 50 Maasai, the village chairman and the elders bring the school desks out from the classrooms for our meeting under the Acacia tree, the only shade tree on the campus.  While the orange dust whirls around us and through our meeting site, we get down to business.  We thank the building, school and tree committees for their dedication throughout the year.  The village chairman and the elders express their thanks to the churches, friends and family members in the USA who have contributed to the success of Endupoto.  A cultural shift is taking place among the Maasai as we discuss a proposed literacy program for the mamas and babas.  Of the 25 plus elders in the circle, 17 can read and write at some level but all want more education for themselves and the village’s mothers and fathers.  This after-school program will be taught by a young Maasai man who is the only one in the village who has finished Form 4 (high school). 

Two hours later and covered in dust we head to the teachers’ room for orange Fanta, fried goat and a Coca Cola chaser to cut the grease.  All in all a successful day on many levels.

Change is occurring at the diocese level too.  Bishop Simon Makundi is retiring in June.  With this in mind, we are turning the school over to the Maasai village of Kerere.  We will both pledge at the ceremony on February 15 to stay connected, be available for consultations, and financial contributions until Endupoto Primary School becomes sustainable.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
                                  —Proverb

Journal Entry #1
2 February 2010
Cheryl Kyle