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Mark Your Calendar - Grant Deadlines

Deadlines to apply for General Board of Church & Society (GBCS) grants are January 10th and February 15th for the Ethnic Local Church Grant and Peace with Justice grants, respectively.

GBCS helps local churches and organizations advocate and establish social justice ministries.

Peace with Justice Grant

** Please note, the 2008 grant deadline has past. The new grant form (for 2009) will be made available later this fall. **

To qualify for a Peace with Justice Grant, applicants must work toward achieving 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) seeking 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.

Ethnic Local Church Grant

The purpose of the Ethnic Local Church Grant, is to strengthen ethnic local churches through education, advocacy or leadership training and development as they engage in social justice. January 10th is the deadline for the March funding cycle. August 10th is the deadline for the October cycle.