Organization Strives to Help Fund Ministries
The struggling economy has religious institutions and ministries of all sizes reeling from a decline in donations, but one organization is attempting to match ministries with donors looking to give.
More than $60 billion a year is donated to religious nonprofit organizations. Christian Foundation Grants (CFG) was developed because of the need among Christian nonprofits for a comprehensive and user-friendly database through which to search for grant funding.
William F. High, president and general counsel of the National Christian Foundation – Heartland, is among CFG’s grant-writing consultants as well as its founder. He says the search for funding can be a daunting task.
“The problem is that if you look out there, there’s more than 100,000 private foundations that give grants, [and] most of those foundations do not give grants to Christian organizations. So you have a lot of ministries that spend a lot of time, they spin their wheels looking for grants in the wrong places,” says High.
According to High, Christian Foundation Grants has developed an exhausting database of foundations that give to Christian organizations.
“As people get out there and they’re trying to write grants, often times they think that they can send off a letter and say ‘I’m a Christian ministry’ or ‘[I’m] a Christian foundation’ and they get money — but it takes a bit more than that,” he explains. “It takes being able to demonstrate that you’ve got a good, solid mission statement, that you’ve got a good budget. It’s really all the nitty gritty, the details.”
(Source: OneNewsNow)
