2008 Peace With Justice Grants
Enclosed is the Application form for 2008 Peace With Justice Grants. You can
get additional copies of the form by going to the Greater New Jersey
Conference web page and clicking on "Grants, Loans and Scholarships" under the Resources tab.
Applications for Peace With Justice grants for the coming year are due on
January 31, 2008 and should not be mailed to the Conference Office, but to
Thomas Lank at the address below. Applications may be submitted by any
group related to the Annual Conference - a local church; an agency of the
conference, a district, or by two or more such groups in cooperation.
Funding for this program is generated by the local churches from the Peace With Justice offerings taken on Peace With Justice Sunday. Fifty percent (50%) of these offerings are retained in the Annual Conferences and the remainder is forwarded to the General Board of Church and Society. The total
amount of grants varies according to the offerings.
This application follows the General Board of Church and Society objectives for Peace With Justice grants. (http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/pp.asp?c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=2280369)
Specifically, programs that wish to receive grants must work toward
at least one of the following objectives:
- Assist United Methodists in understanding and responding to violence and militarism.
- Involve United Methodists in efforts to end conflicts and violent aggression around the world.
- Promote just national and international policies and actions (governmental and non-governmental) which seek to restore communities and respond to the disproportionate effect of injustices on racial and ethnic persons.
- Support policies that promote systematic economic justice and the self-development of peoples.
The Board will give priority to:
- Successful ongoing projects or ministries which can become models for other local churches in the conference
- Creative projects or ministries which will serve as pilot programs for the development of new forms of Peace With Justice ministries
- Projects bringing representatives from local churches throughout the conference into contact with the best leadership and resources at the "cutting edge" of vital Peace With Justice concerns
- Projects for which a Peace With Justice grant will serve as seed money for continuing support from other sources in later years.
Questions about the grants can be directed to:
Thomas Lank
305 Emmons Drive #5B
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 243-0280tom.lank(at)gmail.com.
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