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Updated 6/18/2003:
The Episcopal Relief and Development Fund will not
be accepting applications for the fall 2003 grant cycle as it is in the
process of redefining and refocusing its programming. Therefore, our July
1st deadline is not applicable this year. For more information about this
change, please visit the
national ERD Web site.
Overview of Grant Purpose and Procedure
Obtaining and Completing an Application
Deadlines (for Diocese of Washington and ERD
Office in New York)
Diocesan Contacts
How Awards are Disbursed
Overview of Grant Purpose
and Procedure (top)
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The Episcopal Relief and
Development Fund is a national grant program for domestic and international
grants for relief, rehabilitation and development serving people in
need. Grants may be submitted for either Episcopal or secular organizations.
There is no requirement that the organization be Episcopal or have
an Episcopal affiliation. However, as the Diocese must endorse and
recommend the application, a relationship with or community knowledge
of the organization is highly recommended. |
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Grants are awarded in varying
amounts, from $10,000 to up to $100,000 per organization, and there
are two grant cycles: Spring and Fall. Grant applications may be obtained
from the ERD Web site
and office, and must be submitted to the New York office by their
spring and late summer deadlines. |
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Each application must
have an endorsement letter from the bishop of the corresponding diocese
and have completed the form making the diocese responsible for securing
all reports. In order to accomplish this, the diocese must collect
all applications and have them reviewed by an outside grant reviewer,
who in turn submits his/her notes and recommendations to the bishop
for consideration. The bishop then reviews the notes and the grants
and composes letters of support for submission to the ERD office.
Because both the grant reviewer and the bishop must have time to collect,
consider and endorse the applications, the diocesan office publicizes
a deadline of one month prior to the ERD
office deadline for submissions to Church House. |
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Once the reviewer and the
bishop have considered and endorsed the grant request, the letter
and the completed additional form will be attached to the application
and sent to the ERD office in New York by the deadline. |
Obtaining and Completing
an Application (top)
Step One: Applications may be obtained from the National ERD office located
in New York, or by downloading application forms from their website (www.er-d.org,
and click on Grants/Domestic):
Episcopal Relief and Development
815 Second Avenue / New York, NY 10017
Contact: Judy Rose, Domestic Grants
Program
Phone: 800/334-7627, extension 6121
Fax: 212/983-6377
Email: jrose@er-d.org
Website: www.er-d.org
Step Two: Complete the application accordingly and remember to furnish
the application with financial reports. Make sure your grant application
is complete and presentable.
Step Three: Before you submit the completed application
to the ERD office in New York, you must first obtain two items from the
diocese:
a) A letter of endorsement from the bishop of the diocese
b) The grant form sheet listing a diocesan contact responsible for reporting
Deadlines (top)
Updated
6/18/2003: The Episcopal Relief and Development
Fund will not be accepting applications for the fall 2003 grant cycle
as it is in the process of redefining and refocusing its programming.
Therefore, our July 1st deadline is not applicable this year. For more
information about this change, please visit the
national ERD Web site.
Based on information listed above, the diocese must receive your application
at least one month before the deadline in the National ERD office in New
York so that both an independent grant reviewer and the bishop have time
to study, consider and complete the application. Sometimes the independent
grant reviewer may pick up on some missing information that would be vital
to the ERD office; so submitting in time for consideration is to both
the applicant's and the diocese's benefit.
Please submit applications by deadlines listed below. If the day falls
on a weekend or holiday, then submit by the closest business day after
the date.
| Diocesan Office (Church House) |
ERD Office (New York City) |
| February
15 |
March
15 (Spring Cycle) |
| July
1* |
August
15 (Fall Cycle) |
| *The late summer deadline is July
1st instead of July 15th because the bishop and grant reviewers may
be out of town during the month of August. |
Diocesan Contacts
(top)
Send applications to
Sharonda
Myers
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: (202) 537-5208
Email: smyers@edow.org
How Awards are Disbursed (top)
The ERD office in New York will notify organizations directly, in writing,
of their application status, with a copy to the diocesan office. The ERD
office will send a check for the awarded amount to the diocesan office,
which in turn will forward it to the appropriate organization. Grant awards
usually take several months to process.
Reviewed 2/2003
Communications Office
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