Duke Endowment Rural Church Grants
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Kristen Richardson-Frick
KRichardson-Frick@tde.org
North Carolina Rural Church Grants provide funding to United Methodist Churches in rural areas for health and human service-related outreach programs, church development, and leadership programs.
The program's strategic priorities include:
- Cultivate and support pastoral leaders
- Reimagine church real estate
- Build congregational capacity
- Identify and test selected programs
Past programs have included:
- Food and hunger
- Literacy
- Affordable and adequate housing
- Prevention and early intervention for at-risk children
- Out-of-home care for youth
- Quality and safety of healthcare
- Access to healthcare
- Prevention
- Academic excellence
- Educational access and success
- Campus and community engagement
- Rural church development
- Clergy leadership
- Congregational outreach
Eligible applicants are United Methodist Churches that serve rural North Carolina communities.
To be considered rural for this opportunity, communities must meet one of the following criteria:
- A population of 1,500 or less
- A rural designation by the Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) code
Awards vary according to the size and scope of the project
Applicants must submit a pre-application through the program website.
The application deadlines are May 10 and October 3. The online application portal opens approximately 6 weeks prior to the deadline.
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